AMIT AGNIHOTR

The National Advisory Council, headed by Congress president Sonia Gandhi, will review the draft Food Security Bill at its first full-scale meeting on July 1.

NEW DELHI, June 10

One of the key demands of the Right to Food Campaign for the National Food Security Act is to re-introduce nutritious millets to government food programmes like the public distribution system. Millets like bajra, jowar, kodo, kutki and ragi among hundreds of other varieties have sustained communities for close to 10,000 years in India.

At First Meet, Sonia-Led Group Decides To Go Beyond Prez Address

New Delhi: Tribal development will be one of the top priorities of the reconstituted National Advisory Council (NAC) along with focus on disadvantaged groups. The group held its first meeting on Thursday with Sonia Gandhi back as chairperson.

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Our Bureau NEW DELHI

THE new National Advisory Council (NAC), which had its first meeting here on Thursday, decided to evaluate implementation of flagship programmes of UPA I.

It also decided to have food security bill, communal violence bill and tribal development as priorities apart from monitoring better implementation of existing social sector schemes.

Smita Gupta

NEW DELHI: Food security is likely to top the resurrected National Advisory Council's (NAC) agenda when its members gather here on Thursday for their introductory meeting.

They will also meet Prime Minister Manmohan Singh.

ONE hundred and twenty crore Indians cannot shift to urban centres and become software engineers, professionals and service providers. So, villages, forest, agriculture fields, rivers, hills and lakes need to survive in order to enshrine a large number of microeconomic activities.

Mismanagement of rainwater is at the root of the problem, claims Rajendra Singh. He tells PERNEET SINGH of The Tribune that while people in urban areas are receiving water at subsidised rates, in rural areas people have inadequate access to water

The June 1 announcement by Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, while releasing the Report Card for the first year of the second term of the United Progressive Alliance Government, that the Food Security Bill was under preparation and that the Bill would be placed in the public domain for scrutiny and wider consultation has raised hopes about early enactment of the law to ensure the people's right to fo