Ministry of Consumer Affairs, food and Public Distribution - Wikipedia Ministry of Consumer Affairs, food and Public Distribution The Ministry of Consumer Affairs, Food and Public Distribution is a ministry of India. The Ministry is headed by a minister of Cabinet rank. The current ( Cabinet Rank Minister Ram Vilas Paswan. The ministry is divided into two departments, the Department of Food and Public Distribution and the Department of Consumer Affairs. Contents 1 Department of Food and Public Distribution 2 Department of Consumer Affairs 3 Organisations 4 See also 5 References Department of food and Public Distribution The objectives of the Department are to ensure The remunerative rates for the farmers Supply of food grains at reasonable prices to the consumers through the public distribution system. The Indian Public Distribution System ( PDS ) is a national food security system that distributed subsidised food to India 's poor. Major commodities distributed 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, established by the Food Corporation Act 1964, implements national policy for farm price support, operations, procurement, storage, preservation, inter-state movement and distribution operations. PDS has a network of about 478,000 Fair Price Shops ( FPS ), perhaps the largest distribution network of its type in the world, operated by the Union Government and state governments. Department of Consumer Affairs The Department of Consumer affairs administers the policies for Consumer Cooperatives, Monitoring Prices, availability of essential commodities, Consumer Movement in the country and Controlling of statutory bodies like Bureau of Indian Standards ( BIS ) and Weights and Measures. The department is responsible for following : National Test House Standards of Weights and Measures The Bureau of Indian Standards Consumer Cooperatives Forward Markets Commission, Mumbai. Monitoring of Prices and Availability of essential commodities The Consumer Protection Act, 1986 Consumer Welfare Fund Internal Trade Inter-State Trade : The Spirituous Preparations ( Inter-State Trade and Commerce ) Control Act, 1955 ( 39 of 1955 ). Control of Futures Trading : the Forward Contracts ( Regulations ) Act, 1952 ( 74 of 1952 ). The department of that are considered essential, regulates the availability and takes measures thereof along with prescribing measures to see that the whole system works towards the food security of vulnerable a lot of motivation, provided waves of zeal to owners of shops to make them into mini mall type structures that could perforce supply the maximum choice of goods&services to population to be reached including beneficiaries in their allotted areas. This has also given them more of dignity, accountability, visibility, positive orientation and changed mind set to do well, improve upon their perceived image as one who indulged in diversion, pilferage or leakages that rocked from within, just for his own ends only. This precisely had been the guiding factor to go for a systemic change in the scope of activity &goods handling, that has been liked by other states and also drawn the attention of a set of young MPs who had been given a presentation on the same. Organisations The Public Sector Undertaking ( PSU ) s under the administrative control of Dept. of Public Distribution are : Food Corporation of India ( FCI ) Central Warehousing Corporation ( CWC ) See also Department of Co-operation, Food and Consumer Protection ( Tamil Nadu ) References Ministry of Consumer Affairs, Food and Public Distribution Jump up ^ http://india.gov.in/outerwin.php?id=http://fcamin.nic.in/ ^ Jump up to : `` Dept of Consumer Affairs - Overview ''. Dept of Consumer Affairs. Archived from the original on 12 December 2012. Retrieved 4 January 2013. 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Question: who is the food minister of india 2017
Answer: Ram Vilas Paswan