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EGoM clears draft Food Security Bill [1]

Will entitle 75% of rural homes and half of urban ones to subsidised grain; NAC recommendations diluted.

Diluting some recommendations of the Sonia Gandhi-led National Advisory Council (NAC), an empowered group of ministers (eGoM) today cleared the draft Food Security Bill, which has proposed a legal entitlement for subsidised grain to 75 per cent of rural households and 50 per cent of urban ho

Publication Date: 
12/07/2011
Business Standard (New Delhi) [2]
Tags:
Food Security [3], Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme (MGNREGS) [4], Ministry Of Food & Civil Supplies [5], Rice [6], Wheat [7], Bangladesh [8]

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[3] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/food-security
[4] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/national-rural-employment-guarantee-scheme-nregs
[5] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/ministry-food-civil-supplies
[6] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/rice
[7] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/wheat
[8] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/bangladesh