Annapurna Promise: Uttar Pradesh raises commission for 78,000 fair price shop dealers; Launches e-PoS feedback system

In the Indian civilisational imagination, the granary was never a storehouse of grain it was a sacred trust. From the community kothars of the Vedic age to the state granaries described in Kautilya Arthashastra, ensuring that no citizen went hungry was regarded as the first duty of the state, an obligation later immortalised in the popular invocation to Goddess Annapurna, the eternal giver of…