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......
RS Seshadri, director at Tilda Riceland, is an appropriate agro-industry expert to speak on the Food Security Bill which the Union Cabinet on Thursday proposed that it be passed in Parliament......
The Andhra Pradesh Congress and Telugu Desam members of Parliament are to strategise their approach on how to plan an agitation inside Parliament on Friday. Groups of MPs have already fixed......
Telangana Rashtriya Samithi chief K Chandrasekara Rao is on his way to Delhi, where he will reportedly meet the Congress's top brass and urge them to pass a bill approving the creation of Telangana......
The Samajwadi Party on Monday said it will support the Food Security Bill in Parliament if the amendments, including giving due price to farmers and changing the definition of those below the......
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......
If Minister of State for Food K V Thomas has his say in the proposed Food Security Bill, the eldest woman in the family -- and not the patriarch -- will be designated the head of family in the......
Nobody can deny that the purpose of the law is laudable, however, there are several problems with the Food Bill. The government’s rush to push through food security legislation as an......
'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......
India needs an additional Rs 200 billion (Rs 20,000 crore) to implement its proposed Food Security Bill, Food Minister K.V. Thomas told reporters on Thursday.The current cost of the food subsidy is......