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Cabinet clears Sonia's Food Security Bill

Aiming to provide food security to the poor, the government today approved food bill that seeks to give legal entitlement of cheaper food grains to 63.5 per cent of the country's population. The......

Why India deserves a better Food Security Bill

'Any meaningful food security programme should aim at gradually reducing the number of hungry dependent on government support,' says Devinder Sharma. 'This is only possible if the government had......

Why the food security bill is fatally flawed

It should be called the food insecurity bill. It is too weak and mean to fight hunger, says Praful Bidwai The government has tabled the National Food Security Bill after a long and fractious......

Food Security Bill introduced in Lok Sabha

The much-touted Food Security Bill, which proposes to give the country's three-fourth population the right to highly-subsidised food, was introduced in the Lok Sabha on Wednesday, with the......

Food Security Bill likely in Parliament on Wednesday

The ordinance on the Food Security Bill is expected to come up for consideration in the Lok Sabha on Wednesday, sources said on Monday. The ordinance on the ambitious scheme was signed by President......

The real moral failure in the food security Bill debate

A widening food entitlement under the notoriously leaky public distribution system, rather than through direct cash transfers, is self-evidently a giant step backward in rationalising the provision......

Why the food security bill will not help the poor

'Food security' will, unfortunately, become a giant boondoggle, says T N Ninan.  Tucked away in a long Budget speech by Amit Mitra, West Bengal's finance minister, is a little nugget of......

Is the Food Security Bill a game-changer?

Food insecurity and hunger are rooted in bad policies, faulty design, poor governance and a lack of political will, says N C Saxena. According to the latest Global Hunger Report, India continues to......

Budget 2012: Govt to fully provide for food subsidy and food security act

The government will provide for the entire food subsidy, including that which is proposed in the National Food Security Bill, from next fiscal. "The government has decided that from 2012-13......

Food security to cost Rs 72,000 crore

The National Advisory Council recommendation to guarantee foodgrain to two-thirds of the country's population could bloat the government's food subsidy spend by 26 per cent to over Rs 72,000......

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