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EGoM clears food security bill, rules out wheat exports for now [1]

AN EMPOWERED group of ministers (EGoM) headed by finance minister Pranab Mukherjee on Thursday cleared the draft food security bill, ruled out wheat exports for the present despite overwhelming stocks, approved a decision to increase foodgrain allocation for the above poverty line (APL) consumers of the public distribution system (PDS) and endorsed the ban on pulses export by a year up to March 20

Publication Date: 
19/03/2010
Economic Times (New Delhi) [2]
Tags:
Wheat [3], Food Supply [4], Exports [5], Ministry of Commerce and Industry [6], India [7], Food Security [8]

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[8] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/food-security