The National Advisory Council has recommended formulation of a national agroforestry policy, which provides for support price for farm-grown trees and other produce.

North-Eastern Region of the country is primarily disadvantaged on account of lack of physical infrastructure, viz. road, rail and air connectivity. Even the telecom revolution that is changing the lives of people in the rest of the country has not adequately penetrated into the North Eastern states.

Rajiv Awas Yojana (RAY) marks an important advance in the approach of governments to social housing for the urban poor, slums and basic public services for poor urban settlements.

Strengthening natural resource management components under Mahatma Gandhi NREGA recommendations by National Advisory Council.

This National Food Security Bill, 2011 has been approved by Sonia Gandhi-led National Advisory Council and sent to the government. It seeks legal food entitlements to 90 per cent rural and 50 per cent urban households.

This draft national food security bill approved by the National Advisory Council legalises PDS as the approach for implementing the provisions of food security and calls for improved storage and doorstep delivery of grain to the targeted PDS outlets.

Two important and related Bills are under consideration of the Government of India.  These are the Land Acquisition (Amendment) Bill,2009 and Resettlement and Rehabilitation Bill, 2009.  The first proposes amendments to the Land Acquisition Act 1894, and the latter a statutory framework for Rehabilitation and Resettlement (R&R) of persons displaced and affected by any development

Two important and related Bills are under consideration of the Government of India. These are the Land Acquisition (Amendment) Bill, 2009 & Resettlement and Rehabilitation Bill, 2009. The first proposes amendments to the Land Acquisition Act 1894, and the latter a statutory framework for Rehabilitation and Resettlement (R&R) of persons displaced and affected by any development project.

The National Advisory Council (NAC) recognizes that the Scheduled Tribes & Other Traditional Forest Dwellers( Recognition of Forest Rights) Act, 2006 was a landmark legislation that aimed to undo the historial injustice done to tribals and other forest dwellers by non-recognition of their forest rights.  However, it has not yet succeeded fully in achieving its objectives, because of so

This explanatory note by the National Advisory Council (NAC) chaired by Sonia Gandhi highlights the rationale and major considerations that form basis of the NAC proposals on food security.