Tag: rural development and employment guarantee scheme

• Academy of Development Science has facilitated a network of NGOs for setting up grain banks in different regions.
• ADS organises training and capacity building programmes on food security for NGOs. Grain Bank are now slowly taking shape in different parts of Maharashtra.
• ADS efforts to set up the Grain Bank is paying rich dividends.

Antyodaya ration cards are issued to such families who have the income of less than Rs. 250 per person per month.

Drought is a continuous period of dry weather, when an area gets less than its normal amount of rain. Crops and other plants need water to grow, and land animals need it to live. It can become dangerous for people and other animals; causing famine and even creating deserts.

Dadabhai Naoraji was the first person in India to use the poverty line to identify the poor people.

In coverage and public expenditure, it is considered to be the most important food security network. However, the food grains supplied by the ration shops are not enough to meet the consumption needs of the poor or are of inferior quality. The average level of consumption of PDS grains in India is only 1 kg per person / month.

Public distribution system is a government-sponsored chain of shops entrusted with the work of distributing basic food and non-food commodities to the needy sections of the society at very cheap prices.

Mother Dairy Fruit & Vegetable Pvt Ltd is an Indian company that manufactures, markets and sells milk, milk products and other edible products. Its milk products include cultured products, ice cream, paneer and ghee under the Mother Dairy brand. Mother Dairy provides milk, vegetable and pulses at controlled rate decided by government of Delhi.

Food Corporation of India was set up on 14 January 1965 under the Food Corporations Act 1964. Its headquarter is at Delhi. 

• Amul is a dairy cooperative, based at Anand in Gujarat.
• Formed in 1946, it is a brand managed by a cooperative body, the Gujarat Co-operative Milk Marketing Federation Ltd. (GCMMF).

Chronic hunger is a persistent inadequacy in diet in terms of quantity and/or quality. Poor people suffer from chronic hunger because of their very low income in turn inability to buy food even for survival.