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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......

KCR's Delhi agenda: Thanksgiving, and backing Food Security Bill

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......

Implementation of Food Security Bill acquires special urgency

The government is being pushed by Congress president Sonia Gandhi to put the food bill on fast track as the Congress had promised a ‘right to food’ in its 2009 election manifesto,......

UPA to bring ordinance to implement Food Security Bill

Most Congress leaders felt the government should introduce an ordinance so that the party can get the credit for the legislation that will provide food security to millions in the country, reports......

Food Security Bill to include 70% Indians

The government has in principle decided to expand the coverage of population under the proposed Food Security Bill to include almost 70 per cent of Indians, who will have the legal right to cheap......

Govt defers decision on Food Security Bill

A decision on the legal right of the poor to get wheat or rice at Rs 3 per kg was deferred on Thursday as Food and Agriculture Minister Sharad Pawar could not attend the meeting of a panel of......

Food Security Bill: A few pertinent questions

On Tuesday, foreign institutional investors sold Indian paper heavily and the 30-share Sensex crashed 590 points, or 3.18 per cent. They were spooked by the passage of the Food Security Bill by the......

Pranab approves changes in Food Bill

Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee, the head of the empowered group of ministers on food, has approved key changes in the proposed National Food Security Bill and the revised draft will be placed......

India's cheap food plans to prove costly for government

Providing cheap rice and wheat to 67.5% population would raise subsidy bills 45% to up to Rs 1.3 trn, and the country. India may soon pass a new law to give millions more people cheap food,......

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