The Antyodaya Anna Yojana (AAY) provides a set amount of 35 kilograms (kg) of food grains per family per month to the most impoverished households, as stipulated by the current National Food Security Act (NFSA) of 2013.
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The Managed Democracy: How Constitutional Institutions Were Hollowed Out
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The following article was published in People's Democracy, the organ of the Communist Party of India (Marxist). It is written by M A Baby, the Party's General Secretary.
Communist Party of India (Marxist) shares excerpt of Polit Bureau meeting
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The Polit Bureau of the Communist Party of India (Marxist) has shared notes from its recent meeting. The main topics of objectives are BJP's Operation Lotus, the campaign for electoral reforms, citizenship controversy, crisis in conducting examination, corruptions and US-Iran Memorandum of Understanding.
Communist Party of India (Marxist) marches against spiking prices
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The CPI(M) Raniganj Area Committee started a march from their party office to protest against the price hike of essential commodities including petrol, diesel, cooking gas and to demand inclusion of legal voters in the SIR.
Communists of India protest US killing of Indian seafarers
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The five left parties – Communist Party of India (Marxist), Communist Party of India, Communist Party of India Marxist-Leninist (Liberation), All India Forward Bloc, Revolutionary Socialist Party – have issued the following joint statement.
Communist Party of Pakistan condemns hike in energy prices, demands creation of social state
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In response to the worsening economic conditions in the country, the Central Secretariat of the Communist Party of Pakistan (CPP) put out a strong statement harshly criticising the anti-popular policies and corruption of the Pakistani government.