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LATEST NEWS UPDATES | Gujarat in food security act default

Gujarat in food security act default

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published Published on Mar 13, 2016   modified Modified on Mar 13, 2016
-The Telegraph

New Delhi: Eight states or Union territories, including the Prime Minister's home state Gujarat, have not yet implemented the National Food Security Act, 2013, the Supreme Court was informed yesterday.

Tamil Nadu, Kerala, Nagaland, Mizoram, Manipur, Arunachal Pradesh and Dadra and Nagar Haveli are the other defaulters.

The law aims to provide up to 75 per cent of the rural population and up to 50 per cent of the urban population with subsidised foodgrain and maternity benefits, and includes the midday meal as a right.

Several states and Union territories, such as Uttarakhand, Lakshadweep, Rajasthan, Punjab, Maharashtra, Karnataka, Haryana and Chhattisgarh, have ensured 100 per cent implementation of the foodgrain scheme.

Bengal, Delhi, Telangana, Andhra Pradesh, Meghalaya, Bihar, Goa, Assam, Madhya Pradesh, Sikkim and Odisha have a 90 per cent success rate in implementing the foodgrain scheme, the People's Union for Civil Liberties (PUCL) has told the court citing official records.

A bench of Justices Ibrahim Kalifulla and R. Banumathi issued notices to all the states and Union territories for their response within six weeks after senior counsel Colin Gonzalves complained that even those that are implementing the foodgrain scheme have failed to properly implement the maternity scheme.

The Centre had notified the National Food Security Act, 2013, on September 10, 2013, with the objective of providing nutritional security to the deserving poor by ensuring access to adequate quantity of quality food at affordable prices.

The act provides for disbursal of subsidised foodgrain through a targeted public distribution system. Those eligible are entitled to receive 5kg of foodgrain per person per month. The price is fixed at Rs 3/2/1 per kg for rice/wheat/coarse grains.

It also has a special focus on nutritional support to women and children. Pregnant women and lactating mothers are entitled to meals during pregnancy and till six months after the childbirth.

Children up to 14 years of age will be entitled to nutritious meals or, in case of non-supply of meals, a food security allowance.

The act also contains provisions for setting up a grievance redress mechanism at the district and state levels. Separate provisions have also been made in the act for ensuring transparency and accountability.

PUCL has through a PIL sought enforcement of the National Food Security Act, 2013, and complained that several pregnant women were being denied maternity benefits if they had more than two children although the act does not lay down any such restriction.

The PIL has sought publication of "final lists" of the Socio-Economic Caste Census 2011 to identify priority households and implement the maternity benefit scheme.

According to the petition, the states had been given 365 days from November 2013 to identify the eligible households.

But the Centre has passed three administrative orders extending the date for implementing the scheme.

The PUCL has challenged the validity of these administrative instructions dated 30.6.2014, 14.10.2014 and 24.03.2015 that grant extensions for implementation of the National Food Security Act to states as being contrary to the act.

The Telegraph, 12 March, 2016, http://www.telegraphindia.com/1160313/jsp/nation/story_74261.jsp#.VuTZ9-Y1t_k


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