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Food security law: Centre to share more costs with states [1]

This will further inflate the Centre's subsidy calculation on account of the new law, once it is implemented

The central government has decided to widen the acceptability of its biggest social security initiative, the National Food Security Act, by agreeing to equally share the financial burden of transportation of grain and commission for ration-shop owners with state governments.

Publication Date: 
12/12/2013
Sanjeeb Mukherjee [2]
Business Standard (New Delhi) [3]
Tags:
India [4], Food Security [5], Rice [6], Public Distribution System (PDS) [7], Assam [8], Ministry Of Food & Civil Supplies [9], Food Policy [10]

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