The restriction is not applicable to the sweetener (raw, refined and white) being exported to European Union and the US under CXL and TRQ quota.

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New Delhi [India], September 28 (ANI): Broken rice in transit with certain conditions will be now allowed for exports till October 15, a new notification by the Directorate General of Foreign Trade said late on Tuesday.

New Delhi [India], September 21 (ANI) Exports of broken rice will be now allowed till September 30, including for where loading of broken rice on the ship has commenced before the initial ban order came into effect, where the shipping bill is filed and vessels have already berthed or arrived and anchored in Indian ports and their rotation number has been allocated, and where broken rice consignment has been handed over to the customs and is registered in their system, a new notification by Directorate General of Foreign Trade said.

New Delhi [India], September 9 (ANI): The government has banned the exports of broken rice and imposed a 20 per cent duty on exports of non-Basmati rice amid concerns over low production due to a fall in area under the paddy crop.

New Delhi [India], May 25 (ANI): The global shortage of sugar has triggered the demand, hence Indian government has taken a precautionary step by putting a cap on the export of sugar to 100 lakh metric tonnes (LMT), the idea behind the sugar export restriction is to make prices of sugar stable, said Sudhanshu Pandey, Secretary, Department of Food and Public Distribution.

Washington [US], May 17 (ANI): US Ambassador to UN Linda Thomas-Greenfield on Tuesday said that they hope to convince India to reconsider its decision to limit exports of wheat due to possible shortages in future amid excessive heat in the Indian subcontinent.

New Delhi [India], May 14 (ANI): The reason for the ban on wheat exports is to ensure food security of our citizens and ensure adequate food supply to the public distribution system and also ensure that we are able to direct food supplies to vulnerable food-deficit countries, said government secretaries of three departments of Food and public distribution Sudhanshu Pandey, Commerce Secretary BVR Subrahmanian and Agriculture Secretary Manoj Ahuja.

New Delhi [India], December 30 (ANI): Major edible oil companies have cut the maximum retail price (MRP) of their products by Rs 30 to 40 to provide relief for the people troubled by the increased prices, said Sudhanshu Pandey, Secretary, Department of Food and Public Distribution.

New Delhi Dec 30 PTI The Centre is in the final stages of developing a system to capture the data of homeless and the destitute having no ration cards so that the benefit of subsidized foodgrains can be extended to them also Food Secretary Sudhanshu Pandey said on Thursday Currently the government supplies highly subsidized foodgrains at Rs 1-3 per kg to over 81 crore people having ration cards through public distribution system PDS as part of the National Food Security Act NFSA Over and above the subsidized foodgrains the government during the pandemic is supplying free foodgrains to NFSA beneficiaries under Pradhan Mantri Garib Kalyan Anna Yojana PMGKAY This scheme has been extended multiple times and is now valid till March 2022 Since homeless and the destitute have no ration cards in the absence of an identity card or residential address they are not covered either under NFSA or PMGKAY Asked about steps taken to cover this segment of the population the Secretary said Very much that process is on and the development of a system is in the final stages and then it will be put to trial The new system being developed is basically to capture all homeless shelterless destitute who might not have ration cards he said during a virtual media briefing State governments have not either issued them the ration card for reasons of lack of identity or lack of home address he said and added all these issues will get addressed Another Food Ministry official said states have lifted 1121 lakh tonne of foodgrains in the current 2021-22 fiscal year for distribution to people not covered under NFSA State governments purchased over 11 lakh tonne of foodgrains under the Centres open market sale scheme OMSS in 2021-22 he said Further the official said state governments have managed to cover so far only 7971 crore poor people out of the total 81 crore beneficiaries covered under NFSA State governments have been asked to immediately reach out to the remaining 16 crore identify them and bring them under the ambit of NFSA he said With states lifting grains via OMSS the quantity of wheat and rice sold via this scheme has increased to 7144 lakh tonne till December 29 this year as against 2071 lakh tonne in the year-ago period Besides states private companies and organizations have purchased the grains via OMSS taking advantage of the liberalized policy introduced this year to offload the surplus stocks of wheat improve domestic availability and ease out storage crunch he added PTI LUX ANU ANU