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Food subsidy cost blown up, say policy-makers [1]

‘Extra expense won’t exceed Rs 100,000 crore, will be spread over 5 years’.

Critics have slammed a bloated subsidy that has been proposed for the food security bill, but officials in the government strongly believe that the resultant additional burden will not be above Rs 27,000 crore to meet the commitments under the proposed legislation.

Publication Date: 
21/12/2011
Sanjeeb Mukherjee [2]
Business Standard (New Delhi) [3]
Tags:
Food Security [4], Subsidies [5], Integrated Child Development Services (ICDS) [6], Population [7], Ministry Of Agriculture [8], Food Policy [9], Ministry Of Food & Civil Supplies [10]

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