The government has in principle decided to expand the coverage of population under the proposed Food Security Bill to include almost 70 per cent of Indians, who will have the legal right to cheap food, against the earlier proposal of 64 per cent of the same.

It will also end the below and above poverty line (BPL and APL) demarcation, prevailing in the current public distribution system (PDS). However, entitlements under the Antyodaya Anna Yojana (for the poorest of the poor) would continue as in the current structure.