Jean Dreze

The planned National Food Security Act represents a unique opportunity to achieve gains with respect to the public distribution system. However, the current draft is a non-starter.

Wrong policies of the government have been responsible for the prevalent food insecurity in the country, alleged activists. They also said the proposed National Food Security Act ignores the root causes of hunger and it deliberately leaves untouched the structural roots of the malnutrition crisis.

A Bill of rights is no solution, improved PDS is
Business Standard / New Delhi July 07, 2010, 0:19 IST

P. Sainath

The official line is simple. Since we cannot afford to feed all the hungry, there must only be as many hungry as we can afford to feed.

Gargi Parsai

NEW DELHI: The Food Processing Ministry will give priority to farmers, self-help groups and women for providing grant-in-aid in setting up food processing enterprises. It has also identified Bihar, Orissa, Madhya Pradesh, Chhattisgarh and Jammu and Kashmir for preferential treatment in financial support to set up food processing units.

SHILLONG, July 2

Food Security Bill Set For Radical Rewrite; To Benefit More, Add Nutritional Value
M Rajshekhar NEW DELHI

THE National Advisory Council (NAC), it appears, is set to radically rewrite the the Food Security Bill.

The National Advisory Council, chaired by Congress party president Sonia Gandhi, met for the second time today after its recent revival and unanimously endorsed the idea of universal access to the public distribution system in rural areas. It was agreed that a universalised PDS should be implemented initially in 150 districts, a member said.

Nistula Hebbar

New Delhi: The proposal that the poor be given direct cash subsidy under the food security law when grain is not available may not go through with many members of the Sonia Gandhi-led National Advisory Council (NAC) denouncing the move.