Food Minister Ram Vilas Paswan on Saturday said bringing an amendment to the six-and-a-half-decades old Essential Commodities Act (ECA) to deregulate six types of agri-produce is not something impossible to achieve but one needs to see the practicality.
The consumer affairs, food and public distribution minister said that the NFSA is supposed to cover 71 crore people across the country.
Food Minister Ram Vilas Paswan on Friday announced a life insurance cover of up to Rs 35 lakh per person to over 1 lakh FCI officials and labourers in case they succumb to COVID-19 after six months of performing duty from the day of lockdown on March 24.
Nayyar, a resident of Muzaffarpur town, in his complaint said that Paswan has failed to check onion prices despite being the union minister for consumer affairs, food and public distribution.
"Stockholding limit on retailers and wholesalers are being further extended until further orders," an official statement said. The stock holding limit was imposed in September. At present, retailers can stock onion only up to 100 quintals and wholesale traders are allowed to keep up to 500 quintals.
The war of words over quality of water in the national capital escalated on Thursday with Union Consumer Affairs Minister Ram Vilas Paswan asking Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal to serve tap water at official meetings if he believed the water in Delhi was safe to drink.
Kejriwal said five random water samples will be lifted publicly from each ward in the city for examination and asserted that only 1.5 percent of the 1.55 lakh water samples picked up by the Delhi Jal Board in January-September this year have failed the tests
Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal on Sunday termed "false and politically motivated" a BIS report which stated that drinking water in the national capital failed quality tests. Union Consumer Affairs Minister Ram Vilas Paswan on Saturday released the second phase of the Bureau of Indian Standardisation (BIS) study which stated that Delhi along with Kolkata and Chennai failed in almost 10 out of 11 quality parameters of drinking water.
Releasing a study on quality of piped drinking water being supplied in 21 cities across the country, Union Minister for Consumer Affairs, Food and Public Distribution Ram Vilas Paswan said on Saturday that in Delhi and 13 state capitals, tap water is "undrinkable".
While state-owned trading firm MMTC will import onions, cooperative Nafed will supply the key kitchen staple in the domestic market. This decision was taken at a meeting of a committee of secretaries held on Saturday
BJP ally and Union minister Ram Vilas Paswan asserted on Saturday that the Supreme Court verdict on the Ayodhya issue has put a closure to the dispute that had lingered for more than a century.
Party sources said the LJP national executive in its meeting on Tuesday will see Chirag Paswan's anointment as its president.
Consumers covered under the Public Distribution System (PDS) will soon be free to buy their goods from any ration centre under the 'one nation, one ration card' scheme, officials said.
Food and Consumer Affairs Minister Ram Vilas Paswan on Wednesday asked employees in his ministry to promote Hindi language and use simple words for better understanding.
Brother of Ram Vilas Paswan, Ramchandra Paswan passed away at Delhi's Ram Manohar Lohia hospital in Delhi today. Ramchandra Paswan was a member of Parliament from Lok Janshakti Party. He was admitted to the hospital on July 12 after suffering a heart attack.
According to Dr VK Tiwari, Director of RML Hospital Ram Chandra Paswan is in ICU and Dr. Randeep Nath, HOD- Cardiology is observing him.
Paswan was declared elected after the deadline for the withdrawal of nomination papers ended at 3 p.m. on Friday in the absence of any other candidate. There will be no formal election, Bihar Assembly Secretary Bateshwarnath Pandey said.
The biggest beneficiary of the 'one nation one ration card' will be migrant labourers who move to other states to seek better job opportunities and will ensure their food security, Ram Vilas Paswan said at a conference with state food secretaries on food security issues.
The minister was speaking at a conference with state food secretaries on food security issues. Officials of Food Corporation of India (FCI), Central Warehousing Corporation (CWC) and State Warehousing Corporations (SWCs) were also present.
Reporters covering Union Minister and Lok Janshakti Party (LJP) Chief Ram Vilas Paswan's filing of nomination for Rajya Sabha were forced out of the Returning Officer's room at the Bihar assembly on Friday.
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