Sonia’s ‘aam aadmi’ proposal likely to be introduced in Parliament today

The Union Cabinet tonight cleared the much-awaited draft food security Bill, brightening the prospect of providing legal entitlement of food to three-fourth of the country’s rural population and half its urban dwellers.

Food minister K V Thomas said a meeting of the cabinet that cleared the Bill also decided to introduce it in the current session of Parliament.

The controversial targeted National Food Security Bill, which got the nod of the Union Cabinet on Sunday, is a pet project of United Progressive Alliance chairperson Sonia Gandhi.

New Delhi The Cabinet will discuss the National Food Security Bill, 2011, on Monday, in a bid to introduce the proposed legislation in the current session of Parliament.

Food minister K V Thomas on Friday said discussions on the food Bill in the Cabinet which was deferred earlier this week would continue on Monday. “Discussions will continue when the Cabinet meets on Monday,” he told reporters.

Cabinet Nod Likely On Sunday, Will Be In House By Next Week

Upset at the Trinamul Congress chief, Miss Mamata Banerjee, stalling the food security Bill, the food ministry has dismissed her objections and said since all the issues raised by the West Bengal g

West Bengal chief minister Mamata Banerjee’s move to stall decision on the National Food Security Bill by writing a letter to the Prime Minister Manmohan Singh just on the eve of the Cabinet meeting appears to have been more for political reasons than any serious objections.

Sources in the food ministry said that the Cabinet note on the Food Bill had included four key demands of the West Bengal government, which were already agreed upon by the Centre.

New Delhi After the Cabinet deferred a decision on the National Food Security Bill, 2011, on Tuesday due to lack of consensus on the issue, food minister KV Thomas on Wednesday said the Cabinet may

Once bitten, twice shy.

New Delhi The ambitious Food Security Bill of the UPA government was on Tuesday deferred by the Cabinet, apparently spooked by the huge financial commitment it entailed.