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The Indian Public Distribution System (PDS) is a national food security system that distributes subsidised food to India's poor. Major commodities include wheat , rice , sugar and kerosene . Surpluses of food from increased crop yields (as a result of the Green Revolution and good monsoon seasons) are managed by the Food Corporation of India ...
Merged to form Ministry of Food and Consumer Affairs with three departments - Department of Food & Civil Supplies, Department of Sugar and Edible Oils and Department of Consumer Affairs. On 15 October 1999, the new ministry was renamed as the Ministry of Consumer Affairs & Public Distribution, having the same three departments. On 17 July 2000 ...
The Food Corporation of India (FCI) is a statutory body of the Government of India.It is under the ownership of Ministry of Consumer Affairs, Food and Public Distribution, formed by the enactment of Food Corporation Act, 1964 [2] by the Parliament of India.
The Bureau of Indian Standards (BIS) is the National Standards Body of India under Department of Consumer affairs, [2] Ministry of Consumer Affairs, Food & Public Distribution, Government of India. [3] It is established by the Bureau of Indian Standards Act, 2016 which came into effect on 12 October 2017. [2]
Minister of State in the Ministry of Consumer Affairs, Food and Public Distribution [2] Source: [1] Nimuben Jayantibhai Bambhaniya (also spelled as Bambhania ) is an Indian politician , social worker and incumbent Member of Parliament in Lok Sabha for the Bhavnagar Lok Sabha constituency and Minister of State in government of India as a member ...
Pages in category "Ministry of Consumer Affairs, Food and Public Distribution" The following 10 pages are in this category, out of 10 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .
Banwari Lal Verma, also known as B. L. Verma, is an Indian politician and current Minister of State in the Ministry of Social Justice and Empowerment and Minister of State in the Ministry of Consumer Affairs, Food and Public Distribution, Government of India.
The Consumer Protection Act, 2019 was introduced in the Lok Sabha as a replacement of COPRA, 1986 on 8 July 2019 by the Minister of Consumer Affairs, Food and Public Distribution, Ram Vilas Paswan. [1] It was passed by Lok Sabha on 30 July 2019 [2] and later passed in Rajya Sabha on 6 August 2019. [3] [4] [5]