Food Policy

Government to take states on board over food bill

Government to take states on board over food bill

Still nursing the sting of ally Trinamool Congress opposing the Lokpal Bill in the Rajya Sabha citing issues of federal autonomy, the United Progressive Alliance (UPA) government wants to take the states into confidence on Sonia Gandhi's dream project - the National Food Security Bill, 2011.

Publication Date: 
11/01/2012
Asian Age (New Delhi)
Tags:
Food Security, Parliament, Tamil Nadu, Bihar, Uttar Pradesh, Public Distribution System (PDS), Population, Food Policy, Ministry Of Food & Civil Supplies
Food Policy

Food Security Bill to be tabled

KOCHI: The National Food Security Bill will be presented in the Budget session of Parliament, said Union Minister of State for Food and Consumer Affairs K V Thomas.

Publication Date: 
03/01/2012
New Indian Express (Kochi)
Tags:
Food Security, Tamil Nadu, Population, Rice, Wheat, Parliament, Food Policy, Ministry Of Food & Civil Supplies
Food Policy

Record grain output in 2011 facilitates Bill

New Delhi The agriculture sector performed exceedingly well in 2011, with record grain production of over 240 million tonnes giving enough leeway for the government to lift a ban on exports of whea

Publication Date: 
28/12/2011
Financial Express (New Delhi)
Tags:
Food Security, Wheat, Rice, Exports, Farmers, Crops, Oilseeds, Sugarcane, Population, Ministry Of Agriculture, Public Distribution System (PDS), Agriculture, Food Policy, Ministry Of Food & Civil Supplies
Solid Waste

'Manage waste at your home'

KOCHI: It is high time that the city launched a decentralised waste management system, Union Minister of State for Food and Civil Supplies K V Thomas said here on Friday.

Publication Date: 
26/12/2011
New Indian Express (Kochi)
Tags:
Kochi, Waste Management, Waste Disposal, Waste Treatment, Biodegradable Waste, Solid Waste, Ministry Of Food & Civil Supplies
Food Policy

Food Security Bill: Simpler the better

The draft Food Bill is in a mess; a simple solution is available to make it an effective legislation. (Editorial)

Publication Date: 
23/12/2011
Economic and Political Weekly
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Food Security, Legislation, India, Food Supply, Poverty, Government Of India (GOI), Ministry Of Food & Civil Supplies
Food Policy

Key Food Security Bill introduced in Lok Sabha

The landmark Food Security Bill, that gives legal right to cheaper foodgrains to 63.5 per cent of the country's population, was introduced in the Lok Sabha on Thursday.

Publication Date: 
22/12/2011
Asian Age (New Delhi)
Tags:
Food Security, Legislation, Subsidies, Public Distribution System (PDS), Poverty, Rice, Wheat, Nutrition, Children, Women, Food Policy, Ministry Of Food & Civil Supplies
Food Policy

Government hides more than it reveals in the Food Security Bill

In the second term of the United Progressive Alliance, the Food Ministry has been totally consumed with the drafting of the Bill which has been routed through the National Advisory Council, the Prime Minister's Economic Advisory Council and the Empowered Group of Ministers on Food.

Publication Date: 
22/12/2011
Gargi Parsai
Hindu (New Delhi)
Tags:
Legislation, Subsidies, Planning Commission, Poverty, Public Distribution System (PDS), Ministry Of Rural Development, Food Security, Floods, Drought, Cyclones, Earthquakes, Tamil Nadu, Food Policy, Ministry Of Food & Civil Supplies
Food Policy

Food Security Bill to be tabled today

The Government will introduce in the Lok Sabha on Thursday the National Food Security Bill which seeks to give legal rights to subsidised foodgrains to identified beneficiaries under the public dis

Publication Date: 
22/12/2011
Gargi Parsai
Hindu (New Delhi)
Tags:
Food Security, Public Distribution System (PDS), Tamil Nadu, Legislation, Population, Food Policy, Ministry Of Food & Civil Supplies
Food Policy

Food subsidy cost blown up, say policy-makers

‘Extra expense won’t exceed Rs 100,000 crore, will be spread over 5 years’.

Critics have slammed a bloated subsidy that has been proposed for the food security bill, but officials in the government strongly believe that the resultant additional burden will not be above Rs 27,000 crore to meet the commitments under the proposed legislation.

Publication Date: 
21/12/2011
Sanjeeb Mukherjee
Business Standard (New Delhi)
Tags:
Food Security, Subsidies, Integrated Child Development Services (ICDS), Population, Ministry Of Agriculture, Food Policy, Ministry Of Food & Civil Supplies
Food Policy

Food subsidy bill hit R45,125 cr on December 15, says Thomas

New Delhi The Centre has released R45,125 crore towards food subsidy until December 15, in line with its budgeted subsidy of R60,572 crore for the current fiscal through March 2012.

India’s food subsidy bill rose to R62,929,56 crore in 2010-11 from R58,242.45 crore the year before, food and public distribution minister K V Thomas said in Parliament on Monday, a day after the Cabinet cleared the food security bill that proposes to widen the government's subsidised grain sales to feed the poor

Publication Date: 
20/12/2011
Financial Express (New Delhi)
Tags:
Subsidies, Food Security, Public Distribution System (PDS), Uttar Pradesh, Maharashtra, Ministry Of Agriculture, Food Policy, Ministry Of Food & Civil Supplies

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