Prime Minister Manmohan Singh has called a meeting tomorrow to discuss an alternative plan for the National Food Security Bill, the ruling coalition’s most ambitious social security programme.

Also termed ‘Plan B’, it seeks to widen the numbers covered under the programme to about 68 per cent of the entire population from the 64 per cent in the pending Bill. It was first floated by a section of activists on the issue. The original Bill, as cleared by the cabinet last year, is currently being vetted by a standing committee of Parliament.