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Cabinet clears food security ordinance [1]

Preparing for the 2014 General Elections, the Congress-led UPA today decided to take the ordinance route to provide India’s two-third population the right to food at subsidised rates.

Publication Date: 
04/07/2013
Vibha Sharma [2]
Tribune (New Delhi) [3]
Tags:
Food Security [4], Subsidies [5], Ministry Of Agriculture [6], Public Distribution System (PDS) [7], Population [8], Food Policy [9]

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[3] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/newspaper/tribune-new-delhi
[4] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/food-security
[5] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/subsidies
[6] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/ministry-agriculture
[7] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/public-distribution-system-pds
[8] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/population
[9] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/food-policy