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A report by a parliamentary standing committee entrusted to examine the National Food Security Bill, 2011 has revived the debate on what measures India must take to end its abysmal track record of hunger and malnutrition, (See several links given below) despite successive years of high growth and record grain procurement. The draft legislation is likely to be debated in the upcoming session of Parliament, even as the recent Jaipur Declaration by the ruling Congress party promises to end hunger and malnutrition in India by 2020.<br />
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The report by the committee, made up of 29 MPs across party lines, has suggested an individual entitlement of 5kg of grain per month, as opposed to the current entitlement of 35kg per family (roughly 7 kg per individual). Civil society groups have pointed out that this reduced allocation is well below required health norms, even more so for individuals engaged in hard labour, many of whom depend on the PDS.<br />
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The committee estimates that implementing the act will cost Rs 1,09,796 crore in 2012-13, and while backing the law, expresses worries about its financial sustainability in the future, especially with population rise. Some economists have questioned this estimate, while others argue that the investment&nbsp; is not high given it is still below 1% of India&rsquo;s GDP. The committee has also controversially suggested that states be divided into three categories as per their financial performance to determine whether they should or should not share the food subsidy bill with the centre, and to what degrees. However, the report does not suggest any parameters on which this classification can be made.<br />
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While sidestepping the issue of high rates of child malnutrition, it has also argued that maternity benefits (of Rs 1000 a month for 6 months) to expectant mothers not be extended beyond two children. A dissent note from one of the members argues against this proposal, saying such norms and penalties on the mother and child are unfair.<br />
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The report has also warned against the government&rsquo;s bid for replacing grain entitlements with direct cash transfers till such time as the financial and banking infrastructure has not been put in place. However, it does not refer to evidence from the ground, which points not just to the roll-out of the cash transfer model, but also the fact that villagers in some instances have voiced a preference for grain over cash, while pointing to the inconvenience of accessing bank services. &nbsp;<br />
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The opponents of cash transfer include Raman Singh, the Chief Minister of Chhattisgarh, a state which has over the past years introduced a host of technological and administrative measures in its PDS machinery to ensure timely grain deliveries to needy families, while also making the system universal.<br />
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In a letter to the Prime Minister, stating that cash transfers not be introduced in Chhattisgarh, Singh wrote:<br />
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&ldquo;There are lots of problems in implementation of cash subsidy transfer under PDS. In my view, Fair Price Shops under PDS are the only viable and convenient option for access to foodgrains in rural areas in the State. Financial inclusion and availability of IT infrastructure are preconditions to any scheme of cash transfers. There are substantial problems in the State on both accounts. It would also be difficult to fix the monthly cash subsidies in view of fluctuation in market prices. The system is also vulnerable to misuse of cash subsidy amount by the male heads of the households or purchase of non PDS commodities which would defeat the very purpose for which the subsidies are proposed to be transferred.&rdquo;<br />
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The committee also reiterates the principle of caps on the population entitled to subsidised grain, as opposed to a universal PDS, as is being implemented in states like Chhattisgarh and Tamil Nadu.<br />
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<strong><em>Further readings:&nbsp;</em></strong>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'">National Food
Security Bill, 2011, Bill No. 132 of 2011 (as introduced in Lok Sabha)</span>
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<a href="tinymce/uploaded/National%20Food%20Security%20Bill%202011.pdf" title="National Food Security Bill 2011"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'">National Food
Security Bill, 2011, Bill No. 132 of 2011 (as introduced in Lok Sabha)</span></a>
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<a href="tinymce/uploaded/National%20Food%20Security%20Bill%202011.pdf" title="National Food Security Bill 2011">
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&nbsp;
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<span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'">Standing Committee Report
on National Food Security Bill, 2011, Twenty Seventh Report (January, 2013),
Fifteenth Lok Sabha</span>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'">&nbsp;</span>
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<a href="tinymce/uploaded/Standing%20Committee%20Report%20on%20NFSB.pdf" title="Standing Committee Report on NFSB"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'">Standing Committee Report
on National Food Security Bill, 2011, Twenty Seventh Report (January, 2013),
Fifteenth Lok Sabha</span></a>
</p>
<a href="tinymce/uploaded/Standing%20Committee%20Report%20on%20NFSB.pdf" title="Standing Committee Report on NFSB">
</a>
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&nbsp;
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<span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'">Cash Subsidy for Kerosene Pilot: Poor stand Deprived by Design?-Case of Kotkasim, Alwar, Rajasthan (part 1)<br />
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<span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'"><a href="tinymce/uploaded/Kotkasim%20DSO%20report.pdf" title="DSO report">Cash Subsidy for Kerosene Pilot: Poor stand Deprived by Design?-Case of Kotkasim, Alwar, Rajasthan (part 1)<br />
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<a href="tinymce/uploaded/Kotkasim%20DSO%20report_2.pdf" title="Kotkasim DSO report">The Kotkasim Experiment: Field Observations<br />
</a><br />
<a href="tinymce/uploaded/Kotkasim%20DSO%20report_3.pdf" title="Kotkasim DSO report">Kotkasim DSO report (Hindi and English)<br />
</a></span>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'">Chhattisgarh&rsquo;s Chief Minister&rsquo;s letter to Prime Minister on cash transfers in the PDS<br />
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<a href="tinymce/uploaded/CM%20letter.pdf" title="CM letter">Chhattisgarh&rsquo;s Chief Minister&rsquo;s letter to Prime Minister on cash transfers in the PDS<br />
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<a href="tinymce/uploaded/Cash%20Transfers%20in%20Brazil.pdf" title="Cash Transfer in Brazil">Cash Transfers: Real Lessons from Brazil</a><br />
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<a href="tinymce/uploaded/Statement%20of%20the%20RTF%20campaign%20on%20cash%20transfers.pdf" title="Statement of RTF">Statement of the Right to Food Campaign on Cash Transfer<br />
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<a href="tinymce/uploaded/Kotkasim%20Hindi.doc" title="Kotkasim Hindi">Kotkasim_Hindi Document_10 December 2012&nbsp;</a></span><a href="tinymce/uploaded/Kotkasim%20Hindi.doc" title="Kotkasim Hindi">
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Revival
of the Public Distribution System: Evidence and Explanations-Reetika
Khera, Economic and Political Weekly, 5 November, 2011 Vol xlvi no 44
&amp; 45&nbsp;
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<a href="tinymce/uploaded/Reetika%20PDS.pdf" title="Reetika PDS">Revival of the Public Distribution System: Evidence and Explanations-Reetika Khera, Economic and Political Weekly, 5 November, 2011 Vol xlvi no 44 &amp; 45&nbsp;
</a>
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<a href="tinymce/uploaded/PDS%20chhattisgarh.pdf" title="PDS chhattisgarh">
</a>Reforming the Public Distribution System: Lessons from Chhattisgarh by
Raghav Puri, Economic and Political Weekly, February 4, 2012 Vol xlvIi,
No. 5&nbsp;
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<a href="tinymce/uploaded/Reetika%20PDS.pdf" title="Reetika PDS">
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<a href="tinymce/uploaded/PDS%20chhattisgarh.pdf" title="PDS chhattisgarh">
Reforming the Public Distribution System: Lessons from Chhattisgarh by Raghav Puri, Economic and Political Weekly, February 4, 2012 Vol xlvIi, No. 5</a>&nbsp;
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<strong><em><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'">Media reports and
studies on the costs of food security and cash transfer rollouts:</span></em></strong>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'">Limit nutrition plan
to only first 2 kids: Panel -Nitin Sethi, The Times of India, 24 January, 2013,
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<span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'"><a href="../rural-news-update/limit-nutrition-plan-to-only-first-2-kids-panel-nitin-sethi-19052.html">http://www.im4change.org/rural-news-update/limit-nutrition-plan-to-only-first-2-kids-panel-nitin-sethi-19052.html</a>
</span>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'">&nbsp;</span>
</p>
<p style="text-align: justify; line-height: normal" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle">
<span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'">Securing Food for
All: Is It Really Difficult to Afford? -Praveen Jha and Nilachala Acharya,
Economic and Political Weekly, Vol xlviII No 4, January 26, 2013</span>
</p>
<p style="text-align: justify; line-height: normal" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle">
<span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'"><a href="../rural-news-update/securing-food-for-all-is-it-really-difficult-to-afford-praveen-jha-and-nilachala-acharya-18970.html">http://www.im4change.org/rural-news-update/securing-food-for-all-is-it-really-difficult-to-afford-praveen-jha-and-nilachala-acharya-18970.html</a>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'">&nbsp;</span>
</p>
<p style="text-align: justify; line-height: normal" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle">
<span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'">The cost of food
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<span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'">Aadhaar-linked DBT
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<span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'">&nbsp;</span>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'">Rice wars-Chitrangada
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Cash in lieu of PDS: A dangerous step-Sachin Kumar Jain, Panchayatnama, 17 December-23 December, 2012&nbsp;
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A report by a parliamentary standing committee entrusted to examine the National Food Security Bill, 2011 has revived the debate on what measures India must take to end its abysmal track record of hunger and malnutrition, (See several links given...',
'disp' => '<div align="justify">A report by a parliamentary standing committee entrusted to examine the National Food Security Bill, 2011 has revived the debate on what measures India must take to end its abysmal track record of hunger and malnutrition, (See several links given below) despite successive years of high growth and record grain procurement. The draft legislation is likely to be debated in the upcoming session of Parliament, even as the recent Jaipur Declaration by the ruling Congress party promises to end hunger and malnutrition in India by 2020.<br /><br />The report by the committee, made up of 29 MPs across party lines, has suggested an individual entitlement of 5kg of grain per month, as opposed to the current entitlement of 35kg per family (roughly 7 kg per individual). Civil society groups have pointed out that this reduced allocation is well below required health norms, even more so for individuals engaged in hard labour, many of whom depend on the PDS.<br /><br />The committee estimates that implementing the act will cost Rs 1,09,796 crore in 2012-13, and while backing the law, expresses worries about its financial sustainability in the future, especially with population rise. Some economists have questioned this estimate, while others argue that the investment&nbsp; is not high given it is still below 1% of India&rsquo;s GDP. The committee has also controversially suggested that states be divided into three categories as per their financial performance to determine whether they should or should not share the food subsidy bill with the centre, and to what degrees. However, the report does not suggest any parameters on which this classification can be made.<br /><br />While sidestepping the issue of high rates of child malnutrition, it has also argued that maternity benefits (of Rs 1000 a month for 6 months) to expectant mothers not be extended beyond two children. A dissent note from one of the members argues against this proposal, saying such norms and penalties on the mother and child are unfair.<br /><br />The report has also warned against the government&rsquo;s bid for replacing grain entitlements with direct cash transfers till such time as the financial and banking infrastructure has not been put in place. However, it does not refer to evidence from the ground, which points not just to the roll-out of the cash transfer model, but also the fact that villagers in some instances have voiced a preference for grain over cash, while pointing to the inconvenience of accessing bank services. &nbsp;<br /><br />The opponents of cash transfer include Raman Singh, the Chief Minister of Chhattisgarh, a state which has over the past years introduced a host of technological and administrative measures in its PDS machinery to ensure timely grain deliveries to needy families, while also making the system universal.<br /><br />In a letter to the Prime Minister, stating that cash transfers not be introduced in Chhattisgarh, Singh wrote:<br /><br />&ldquo;There are lots of problems in implementation of cash subsidy transfer under PDS. In my view, Fair Price Shops under PDS are the only viable and convenient option for access to foodgrains in rural areas in the State. Financial inclusion and availability of IT infrastructure are preconditions to any scheme of cash transfers. There are substantial problems in the State on both accounts. It would also be difficult to fix the monthly cash subsidies in view of fluctuation in market prices. The system is also vulnerable to misuse of cash subsidy amount by the male heads of the households or purchase of non PDS commodities which would defeat the very purpose for which the subsidies are proposed to be transferred.&rdquo;<br /><br />The committee also reiterates the principle of caps on the population entitled to subsidised grain, as opposed to a universal PDS, as is being implemented in states like Chhattisgarh and Tamil Nadu.<br /><br /></div><div align="justify"><strong><em>Further readings:&nbsp;</em></strong> </div><div align="justify">&nbsp;</div><div align="justify"><!--[if gte mso 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href="https://im4change.in/siteadmin/tinymce/uploaded/National%20Food%20Security%20Bill%202011.pdf" title="National Food Security Bill 2011" title="https://im4change.in/siteadmin/tinymce/uploaded/National%20Food%20Security%20Bill%202011.pdf" title="National Food Security Bill 2011"></a><p style="text-align: justify; line-height: normal" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle">&nbsp;</p><p style="text-align: justify; line-height: normal" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'">Standing Committee Reporton National Food Security Bill, 2011, Twenty Seventh Report (January, 2013),Fifteenth Lok Sabha</span></p><p style="text-align: justify; line-height: normal" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'">&nbsp;</span></p><p style="text-align: justify; line-height: normal" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle"><a href="https://im4change.in/siteadmin/tinymce/uploaded/Standing%20Committee%20Report%20on%20NFSB.pdf" title="Standing Committee Report on NFSB" title="https://im4change.in/siteadmin/tinymce/uploaded/Standing%20Committee%20Report%20on%20NFSB.pdf" title="Standing Committee Report on NFSB">Standing Committee Reporton National Food Security Bill, 2<br />011, Twenty Seventh Report (January, 2013),Fifteenth Lok S<br />abha</a></p><a href="https://im4change.in/siteadmin/tinymce/uploaded/Standing%20Committee%20Report%20on%20NFSB.pdf" title="Standing Committee Report on NFSB" title="https://im4change.in/siteadmin/tinymce/uploaded/Standing%20Committee%20Report%20on%20NFSB.pdf" title="Standing Committee Report on NFSB"></a><p style="text-align: justify; line-height: normal" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle">&nbsp;</p><p style="text-align: justify; line-height: normal" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'">Cash Subsidy for Kerosene Pilot: Poor stand Deprived by Design?-Case of Kotkasim, Alwar, Rajasthan (part 1)<br /></span>&nbsp;</p><p style="text-align: justify; line-height: normal" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'"><a href="https://im4change.in/siteadmin/tinymce/uploaded/Kotkasim%20DSO%20report.pdf" title="DSO report" title="https://im4change.in/siteadmin/tinymce/uploaded/Kotkasim%20DSO%20report.pdf" title="DSO report">Cash Subsidy for Kerosene Pilot: Poor stand Deprived by De<br />sign?-Case of Kotkasim, Alwar, Rajasthan (part 1)</a><br /><a href="https://im4change.in/siteadmin/tinymce/uploaded/Kotkasim%20DSO%20report_2.pdf" title="Kotkasim DSO report" title="https://im4change.in/siteadmin/tinymce/uploaded/Kotkasim%20DSO%20report_2.pdf" title="Kotkasim DSO report">The Kotkasim Experiment: Field Observations</a><br /><a href="https://im4change.in/siteadmin/tinymce/uploaded/Kotkasim%20DSO%20report_3.pdf" title="Kotkasim DSO report" title="https://im4change.in/siteadmin/tinymce/uploaded/Kotkasim%20DSO%20report_3.pdf" title="Kotkasim DSO report">Kotkasim DSO report (Hindi and English)</a></span></p><p style="text-align: justify; line-height: normal" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle"><br /><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'">Chhattisgarh&rsquo;s Chief Minister&rsquo;s letter to Prime Minister on cash transfers in the PDS<br /></span><a href="https://im4change.in/siteadmin/tinymce/uploaded/CM%20letter.pdf" title="CM letter" title="https://im4change.in/siteadmin/tinymce/uploaded/CM%20letter.pdf" title="CM letter">Chhattisgarh&rsquo;s Chief Minister&rsquo;s letter to Prim<br />e Minister on cash transfers in the PDS</a><br /><a href="https://im4change.in/siteadmin/tinymce/uploaded/Cash%20Transfers%20in%20Brazil.pdf" title="Cash Transfer in Brazil" title="https://im4change.in/siteadmin/tinymce/uploaded/Cash%20Transfers%20in%20Brazil.pdf" title="Cash Transfer in Brazil">Cash Transfers: Real Lessons from Brazil</a><br /><br /><a href="https://im4change.in/siteadmin/tinymce/uploaded/Statement%20of%20the%20RTF%20campaign%20on%20cash%20transfers.pdf" title="Statement of RTF" title="https://im4change.in/siteadmin/tinymce/uploaded/Statement%20of%20the%20RTF%20campaign%20on%20cash%20transfers.pdf" title="Statement of RTF">Statement of the Right to Food Campaign on Cash Transfer</a><br /><a href="https://im4change.in/siteadmin/tinymce/uploaded/Kotkasim%20Hindi.doc" title="Kotkasim Hindi" title="https://im4change.in/siteadmin/tinymce/uploaded/Kotkasim%20Hindi.doc" title="Kotkasim Hindi">Kotkasim_Hindi Document_10 December 2012&nbsp;</a></span><a href="https://im4change.in/siteadmin/tinymce/uploaded/Kotkasim%20Hindi.doc" title="Kotkasim Hindi" title="https://im4change.in/siteadmin/tinymce/uploaded/Kotkasim%20Hindi.doc" title="Kotkasim Hindi"></a></p><a href="https://im4change.in/siteadmin/tinymce/uploaded/Kotkasim%20Hindi.doc" title="Kotkasim Hindi" title="https://im4change.in/siteadmin/tinymce/uploaded/Kotkasim%20Hindi.doc" title="Kotkasim Hindi"></a><p style="text-align: justify; line-height: normal" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle">&nbsp;</p><p style="text-align: justify; line-height: normal" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle">Revivalof the Public Distribution System: Evidence and Explanations-Reetika Khera, Economic and Political Weekly, 5 November, 2011 Vol xlvi no 44 &amp; 45&nbsp;</p><br /><p style="text-align: justify; line-height: normal" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle"><a href="https://im4change.in/siteadmin/tinymce/uploaded/Reetika%20PDS.pdf" title="Reetika PDS" title="https://im4change.in/siteadmin/tinymce/uploaded/Reetika%20PDS.pdf" title="Reetika PDS">Revival of the Public Distribution System: Evidence and Ex<br />planations-Reetika Khera, Economic and Political Weekly, 5<br /> November, 2011 Vol xlvi no 44 &amp; 45&nbsp;</a></p><p style="text-align: justify; line-height: normal" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle">&nbsp;</p><p style="text-align: justify; line-height: normal" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle"><a href="https://im4change.in/siteadmin/tinymce/uploaded/PDS%20chhattisgarh.pdf" title="PDS chhattisgarh" title="https://im4change.in/siteadmin/tinymce/uploaded/PDS%20chhattisgarh.pdf" title="PDS chhattisgarh"></a>Reforming the Public Distribution System: Lessons from Chhattisgarh by Raghav Puri, Economic and Political Weekly, February 4, 2012 Vol xlvIi, No. 5&nbsp;</p><p style="text-align: justify; line-height: normal" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle">&nbsp;</p><a href="https://im4change.in/siteadmin/tinymce/uploaded/Reetika%20PDS.pdf" title="Reetika PDS" title="https://im4change.in/siteadmin/tinymce/uploaded/Reetika%20PDS.pdf" title="Reetika PDS"></a><p style="text-align: justify; line-height: normal" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle"><a href="https://im4change.in/siteadmin/tinymce/uploaded/PDS%20chhattisgarh.pdf" title="PDS chhattisgarh" title="https://im4change.in/siteadmin/tinymce/uploaded/PDS%20chhattisgarh.pdf" title="PDS chhattisgarh">Reforming the Public Distribution System: Lessons from Chh<br />attisgarh by Raghav Puri, Economic and Political Weekly, F<br />ebruary 4, 2012 Vol xlvIi, No. 5</a>&nbsp;</p><p style="text-align: justify; line-height: normal" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle">&nbsp;</p><p style="text-align: justify; line-height: normal" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle"><strong><em><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'">Media reports andstudies on the costs of food security and cash transfer rollouts:</span></em></strong></p><strong><em></em></strong><p style="text-align: justify; line-height: normal" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle"><strong></strong><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'">&nbsp;</span></p><p style="text-align: justify; line-height: normal" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'">Limit nutrition planto only first 2 kids: Panel -Nitin Sethi, The Times of India, 24 January, 2013,</span></p><p style="text-align: justify; line-height: normal" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'"><a href="https://im4change.in/rural-news-update/limit-nutrition-plan-to-only-first-2-kids-panel-nitin-sethi-19052.html" title="https://im4change.in/rural-news-update/limit-nutrition-plan-to-only-first-2-kids-panel-nitin-sethi-19052.html">http://www.im4change.org/rural-news-update/limit-nutrition<br />-plan-to-only-first-2-kids-panel-nitin-sethi-19052.html</a></span></p><p style="text-align: justify; line-height: normal" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'">&nbsp;</span></p><p style="text-align: justify; line-height: normal" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'">Securing Food forAll: Is It Really Difficult to Afford? -Praveen Jha and Nilachala Acharya,Economic and Political Weekly, Vol xlviII No 4, January 26, 2013</span></p><p style="text-align: justify; line-height: normal" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'"><a href="https://im4change.in/rural-news-update/securing-food-for-all-is-it-really-difficult-to-afford-praveen-jha-and-nilachala-acharya-18970.html" title="https://im4change.in/rural-news-update/securing-food-for-all-is-it-really-difficult-to-afford-praveen-jha-and-nilachala-acharya-18970.html">http://www.im4change.org/rural-news-update/securing-food-f<br />or-all-is-it-really-difficult-to-afford-praveen-jha-and-ni<br />lachala-acharya-18970.html</a></span></p><p style="text-align: justify; line-height: normal" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'">&nbsp;</span></p><p style="text-align: justify; line-height: normal" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'">The cost of foodsecurity, The Hindu, 20 January, 2013, <a href="http://www.thehindu.com/opinion/columns/Chandrasekhar/the-cost-of-food-security/article4325479.ece?textsize=large&amp;test=1" title="http://www.thehindu.com/opinion/columns/Chandrasekhar/the-cost-of-food-security/article4325479.ece?textsize=large&amp;test=1">http://www.thehindu.com/opinion/columns/Chandrasekhar/the-<br />cost-of-food-security/article4325479.ece?textsize=large&am<br />p;test=1</a></span></p><p style="text-align: justify; line-height: normal" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'">&nbsp;</span></p><p style="text-align: justify; line-height: normal" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'">Aadhaar-linked DBThits roadblock in East Godavari -Mohammad Ali, The Hindu, 21 January, 2013, </span></p><p style="text-align: justify; line-height: normal" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'"><a href="https://im4change.in/rural-news-update/aadhaar-linked-dbt-hits-roadblock-in-east-godavari-mohammad-ali-18972.html" title="https://im4change.in/rural-news-update/aadhaar-linked-dbt-hits-roadblock-in-east-godavari-mohammad-ali-18972.html">http://www.im4change.org/rural-news-update/aadhaar-linked-<br />dbt-hits-roadblock-in-east-godavari-mohammad-ali-18972.htm<br />l</a></span></p><p style="text-align: justify; line-height: normal" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'">&nbsp;</span></p><p style="text-align: justify; line-height: normal" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'">Rice wars-ChitrangadaChoudhury, The Hindustan Times, 12 November, 2008, <a href="http://www.hindustantimes.com/India-news/Chhattisgarh/Rice-wars/Article1-350851.aspx" 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A report by a parliamentary standing committee entrusted to examine the National Food Security Bill, 2011 has revived the debate on what measures India must take to end its abysmal track record of hunger and malnutrition, (See several links given below) despite successive years of high growth and record grain procurement. The draft legislation is likely to be debated in the upcoming session of Parliament, even as the recent Jaipur Declaration by the ruling Congress party promises to end hunger and malnutrition in India by 2020.<br />
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The report by the committee, made up of 29 MPs across party lines, has suggested an individual entitlement of 5kg of grain per month, as opposed to the current entitlement of 35kg per family (roughly 7 kg per individual). Civil society groups have pointed out that this reduced allocation is well below required health norms, even more so for individuals engaged in hard labour, many of whom depend on the PDS.<br />
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The committee estimates that implementing the act will cost Rs 1,09,796 crore in 2012-13, and while backing the law, expresses worries about its financial sustainability in the future, especially with population rise. Some economists have questioned this estimate, while others argue that the investment&nbsp; is not high given it is still below 1% of India&rsquo;s GDP. The committee has also controversially suggested that states be divided into three categories as per their financial performance to determine whether they should or should not share the food subsidy bill with the centre, and to what degrees. However, the report does not suggest any parameters on which this classification can be made.<br />
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While sidestepping the issue of high rates of child malnutrition, it has also argued that maternity benefits (of Rs 1000 a month for 6 months) to expectant mothers not be extended beyond two children. A dissent note from one of the members argues against this proposal, saying such norms and penalties on the mother and child are unfair.<br />
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The report has also warned against the government&rsquo;s bid for replacing grain entitlements with direct cash transfers till such time as the financial and banking infrastructure has not been put in place. However, it does not refer to evidence from the ground, which points not just to the roll-out of the cash transfer model, but also the fact that villagers in some instances have voiced a preference for grain over cash, while pointing to the inconvenience of accessing bank services. &nbsp;<br />
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The opponents of cash transfer include Raman Singh, the Chief Minister of Chhattisgarh, a state which has over the past years introduced a host of technological and administrative measures in its PDS machinery to ensure timely grain deliveries to needy families, while also making the system universal.<br />
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In a letter to the Prime Minister, stating that cash transfers not be introduced in Chhattisgarh, Singh wrote:<br />
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&ldquo;There are lots of problems in implementation of cash subsidy transfer under PDS. In my view, Fair Price Shops under PDS are the only viable and convenient option for access to foodgrains in rural areas in the State. Financial inclusion and availability of IT infrastructure are preconditions to any scheme of cash transfers. There are substantial problems in the State on both accounts. It would also be difficult to fix the monthly cash subsidies in view of fluctuation in market prices. The system is also vulnerable to misuse of cash subsidy amount by the male heads of the households or purchase of non PDS commodities which would defeat the very purpose for which the subsidies are proposed to be transferred.&rdquo;<br />
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The committee also reiterates the principle of caps on the population entitled to subsidised grain, as opposed to a universal PDS, as is being implemented in states like Chhattisgarh and Tamil Nadu.<br />
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<strong><em>Further readings:&nbsp;</em></strong>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'">National Food
Security Bill, 2011, Bill No. 132 of 2011 (as introduced in Lok Sabha)</span>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'"></span> <br />
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<a href="tinymce/uploaded/National%20Food%20Security%20Bill%202011.pdf" title="National Food Security Bill 2011"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'">National Food
Security Bill, 2011, Bill No. 132 of 2011 (as introduced in Lok Sabha)</span></a>
</p>
<a href="tinymce/uploaded/National%20Food%20Security%20Bill%202011.pdf" title="National Food Security Bill 2011">
</a>
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&nbsp;
</p>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'">Standing Committee Report
on National Food Security Bill, 2011, Twenty Seventh Report (January, 2013),
Fifteenth Lok Sabha</span>
</p>
<p style="text-align: justify; line-height: normal" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle">
<span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'">&nbsp;</span>
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<a href="tinymce/uploaded/Standing%20Committee%20Report%20on%20NFSB.pdf" title="Standing Committee Report on NFSB"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'">Standing Committee Report
on National Food Security Bill, 2011, Twenty Seventh Report (January, 2013),
Fifteenth Lok Sabha</span></a>
</p>
<a href="tinymce/uploaded/Standing%20Committee%20Report%20on%20NFSB.pdf" title="Standing Committee Report on NFSB">
</a>
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&nbsp;
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<span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'">Cash Subsidy for Kerosene Pilot: Poor stand Deprived by Design?-Case of Kotkasim, Alwar, Rajasthan (part 1)<br />
</span>&nbsp;
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<span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'"><a href="tinymce/uploaded/Kotkasim%20DSO%20report.pdf" title="DSO report">Cash Subsidy for Kerosene Pilot: Poor stand Deprived by Design?-Case of Kotkasim, Alwar, Rajasthan (part 1)<br />
</a><br />
<a href="tinymce/uploaded/Kotkasim%20DSO%20report_2.pdf" title="Kotkasim DSO report">The Kotkasim Experiment: Field Observations<br />
</a><br />
<a href="tinymce/uploaded/Kotkasim%20DSO%20report_3.pdf" title="Kotkasim DSO report">Kotkasim DSO report (Hindi and English)<br />
</a></span>
</p>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'">Chhattisgarh&rsquo;s Chief Minister&rsquo;s letter to Prime Minister on cash transfers in the PDS<br />
</span>
<a href="tinymce/uploaded/CM%20letter.pdf" title="CM letter">Chhattisgarh&rsquo;s Chief Minister&rsquo;s letter to Prime Minister on cash transfers in the PDS<br />
</a><br />
<a href="tinymce/uploaded/Cash%20Transfers%20in%20Brazil.pdf" title="Cash Transfer in Brazil">Cash Transfers: Real Lessons from Brazil</a><br />
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<a href="tinymce/uploaded/Statement%20of%20the%20RTF%20campaign%20on%20cash%20transfers.pdf" title="Statement of RTF">Statement of the Right to Food Campaign on Cash Transfer<br />
</a><br />
<a href="tinymce/uploaded/Kotkasim%20Hindi.doc" title="Kotkasim Hindi">Kotkasim_Hindi Document_10 December 2012&nbsp;</a></span><a href="tinymce/uploaded/Kotkasim%20Hindi.doc" title="Kotkasim Hindi">
</a>
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<a href="tinymce/uploaded/Kotkasim%20Hindi.doc" title="Kotkasim Hindi">
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Revival
of the Public Distribution System: Evidence and Explanations-Reetika
Khera, Economic and Political Weekly, 5 November, 2011 Vol xlvi no 44
&amp; 45&nbsp;
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<a href="tinymce/uploaded/Reetika%20PDS.pdf" title="Reetika PDS">Revival of the Public Distribution System: Evidence and Explanations-Reetika Khera, Economic and Political Weekly, 5 November, 2011 Vol xlvi no 44 &amp; 45&nbsp;
</a>
</p>
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&nbsp;
</p>
<p style="text-align: justify; line-height: normal" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle">
<a href="tinymce/uploaded/PDS%20chhattisgarh.pdf" title="PDS chhattisgarh">
</a>Reforming the Public Distribution System: Lessons from Chhattisgarh by
Raghav Puri, Economic and Political Weekly, February 4, 2012 Vol xlvIi,
No. 5&nbsp;
</p>
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&nbsp;
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<a href="tinymce/uploaded/Reetika%20PDS.pdf" title="Reetika PDS">
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<a href="tinymce/uploaded/PDS%20chhattisgarh.pdf" title="PDS chhattisgarh">
Reforming the Public Distribution System: Lessons from Chhattisgarh by Raghav Puri, Economic and Political Weekly, February 4, 2012 Vol xlvIi, No. 5</a>&nbsp;
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<strong><em><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'">Media reports and
studies on the costs of food security and cash transfer rollouts:</span></em></strong>
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</em>
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</strong><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'">&nbsp;</span>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'">Limit nutrition plan
to only first 2 kids: Panel -Nitin Sethi, The Times of India, 24 January, 2013,
</span>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'"><a href="../rural-news-update/limit-nutrition-plan-to-only-first-2-kids-panel-nitin-sethi-19052.html">http://www.im4change.org/rural-news-update/limit-nutrition-plan-to-only-first-2-kids-panel-nitin-sethi-19052.html</a>
</span>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'">&nbsp;</span>
</p>
<p style="text-align: justify; line-height: normal" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle">
<span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'">Securing Food for
All: Is It Really Difficult to Afford? -Praveen Jha and Nilachala Acharya,
Economic and Political Weekly, Vol xlviII No 4, January 26, 2013</span>
</p>
<p style="text-align: justify; line-height: normal" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle">
<span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'"><a href="../rural-news-update/securing-food-for-all-is-it-really-difficult-to-afford-praveen-jha-and-nilachala-acharya-18970.html">http://www.im4change.org/rural-news-update/securing-food-for-all-is-it-really-difficult-to-afford-praveen-jha-and-nilachala-acharya-18970.html</a>
</span>
</p>
<p style="text-align: justify; line-height: normal" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle">
<span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'">&nbsp;</span>
</p>
<p style="text-align: justify; line-height: normal" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle">
<span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'">The cost of food
security, The Hindu, 20 January, 2013, <a href="http://www.thehindu.com/opinion/columns/Chandrasekhar/the-cost-of-food-security/article4325479.ece?textsize=large&amp;test=1">http://www.thehindu.com/opinion/columns/Chandrasekhar/the-cost-of-food-security/article4325479.ece?textsize=large&amp;test=1</a>
</span>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'">&nbsp;</span>
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<p style="text-align: justify; line-height: normal" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle">
<span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'">Aadhaar-linked DBT
hits roadblock in East Godavari -Mohammad Ali, The Hindu, 21 January, 2013, </span>
</p>
<p style="text-align: justify; line-height: normal" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle">
<span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'"><a href="../rural-news-update/aadhaar-linked-dbt-hits-roadblock-in-east-godavari-mohammad-ali-18972.html">http://www.im4change.org/rural-news-update/aadhaar-linked-dbt-hits-roadblock-in-east-godavari-mohammad-ali-18972.html</a>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'">&nbsp;</span>
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<p style="text-align: justify; line-height: normal" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle">
<span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'">Rice wars-Chitrangada
Choudhury, The Hindustan Times, 12 November, 2008, <a href="http://www.hindustantimes.com/India-news/Chhattisgarh/Rice-wars/Article1-350851.aspx">http://www.hindustantimes.com/India-news/Chhattisgarh/Rice-wars/Article1-350851.aspx</a>
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Cash in lieu of PDS: A dangerous step-Sachin Kumar Jain, Panchayatnama, 17 December-23 December, 2012&nbsp;
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ENDING HUNGER-A special issue, Seminar, June, 2012, <a href="http://india-seminar.com/2012/634.htm">http://india-seminar.com/2012/634.htm</a>&nbsp; <br />
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A report by a parliamentary standing committee entrusted to examine the National Food Security Bill, 2011 has revived the debate on what measures India must take to end its abysmal track record of hunger and malnutrition, (See several links given...'
$disp = '<div align="justify">A report by a parliamentary standing committee entrusted to examine the National Food Security Bill, 2011 has revived the debate on what measures India must take to end its abysmal track record of hunger and malnutrition, (See several links given below) despite successive years of high growth and record grain procurement. The draft legislation is likely to be debated in the upcoming session of Parliament, even as the recent Jaipur Declaration by the ruling Congress party promises to end hunger and malnutrition in India by 2020.<br /><br />The report by the committee, made up of 29 MPs across party lines, has suggested an individual entitlement of 5kg of grain per month, as opposed to the current entitlement of 35kg per family (roughly 7 kg per individual). Civil society groups have pointed out that this reduced allocation is well below required health norms, even more so for individuals engaged in hard labour, many of whom depend on the PDS.<br /><br />The committee estimates that implementing the act will cost Rs 1,09,796 crore in 2012-13, and while backing the law, expresses worries about its financial sustainability in the future, especially with population rise. Some economists have questioned this estimate, while others argue that the investment&nbsp; is not high given it is still below 1% of India&rsquo;s GDP. The committee has also controversially suggested that states be divided into three categories as per their financial performance to determine whether they should or should not share the food subsidy bill with the centre, and to what degrees. However, the report does not suggest any parameters on which this classification can be made.<br /><br />While sidestepping the issue of high rates of child malnutrition, it has also argued that maternity benefits (of Rs 1000 a month for 6 months) to expectant mothers not be extended beyond two children. A dissent note from one of the members argues against this proposal, saying such norms and penalties on the mother and child are unfair.<br /><br />The report has also warned against the government&rsquo;s bid for replacing grain entitlements with direct cash transfers till such time as the financial and banking infrastructure has not been put in place. However, it does not refer to evidence from the ground, which points not just to the roll-out of the cash transfer model, but also the fact that villagers in some instances have voiced a preference for grain over cash, while pointing to the inconvenience of accessing bank services. &nbsp;<br /><br />The opponents of cash transfer include Raman Singh, the Chief Minister of Chhattisgarh, a state which has over the past years introduced a host of technological and administrative measures in its PDS machinery to ensure timely grain deliveries to needy families, while also making the system universal.<br /><br />In a letter to the Prime Minister, stating that cash transfers not be introduced in Chhattisgarh, Singh wrote:<br /><br />&ldquo;There are lots of problems in implementation of cash subsidy transfer under PDS. In my view, Fair Price Shops under PDS are the only viable and convenient option for access to foodgrains in rural areas in the State. Financial inclusion and availability of IT infrastructure are preconditions to any scheme of cash transfers. There are substantial problems in the State on both accounts. It would also be difficult to fix the monthly cash subsidies in view of fluctuation in market prices. The system is also vulnerable to misuse of cash subsidy amount by the male heads of the households or purchase of non PDS commodities which would defeat the very purpose for which the subsidies are proposed to be transferred.&rdquo;<br /><br />The committee also reiterates the principle of caps on the population entitled to subsidised grain, as opposed to a universal PDS, as is being implemented in states like Chhattisgarh and Tamil Nadu.<br /><br /></div><div align="justify"><strong><em>Further readings:&nbsp;</em></strong> </div><div align="justify">&nbsp;</div><div align="justify"><!--[if gte mso 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href="https://im4change.in/siteadmin/tinymce/uploaded/National%20Food%20Security%20Bill%202011.pdf" title="National Food Security Bill 2011" title="https://im4change.in/siteadmin/tinymce/uploaded/National%20Food%20Security%20Bill%202011.pdf" title="National Food Security Bill 2011"></a><p style="text-align: justify; line-height: normal" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle">&nbsp;</p><p style="text-align: justify; line-height: normal" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'">Standing Committee Reporton National Food Security Bill, 2011, Twenty Seventh Report (January, 2013),Fifteenth Lok Sabha</span></p><p style="text-align: justify; line-height: normal" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'">&nbsp;</span></p><p style="text-align: justify; line-height: normal" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle"><a href="https://im4change.in/siteadmin/tinymce/uploaded/Standing%20Committee%20Report%20on%20NFSB.pdf" title="Standing Committee Report on NFSB" title="https://im4change.in/siteadmin/tinymce/uploaded/Standing%20Committee%20Report%20on%20NFSB.pdf" title="Standing Committee Report on NFSB">Standing Committee Reporton National Food Security Bill, 2<br />011, Twenty Seventh Report (January, 2013),Fifteenth Lok S<br />abha</a></p><a href="https://im4change.in/siteadmin/tinymce/uploaded/Standing%20Committee%20Report%20on%20NFSB.pdf" title="Standing Committee Report on NFSB" title="https://im4change.in/siteadmin/tinymce/uploaded/Standing%20Committee%20Report%20on%20NFSB.pdf" title="Standing Committee Report on NFSB"></a><p style="text-align: justify; line-height: normal" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle">&nbsp;</p><p style="text-align: justify; line-height: normal" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'">Cash Subsidy for Kerosene Pilot: Poor stand Deprived by Design?-Case of Kotkasim, Alwar, Rajasthan (part 1)<br /></span>&nbsp;</p><p style="text-align: justify; line-height: normal" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'"><a href="https://im4change.in/siteadmin/tinymce/uploaded/Kotkasim%20DSO%20report.pdf" title="DSO report" title="https://im4change.in/siteadmin/tinymce/uploaded/Kotkasim%20DSO%20report.pdf" title="DSO report">Cash Subsidy for Kerosene Pilot: Poor stand Deprived by De<br />sign?-Case of Kotkasim, Alwar, Rajasthan (part 1)</a><br /><a href="https://im4change.in/siteadmin/tinymce/uploaded/Kotkasim%20DSO%20report_2.pdf" title="Kotkasim DSO report" title="https://im4change.in/siteadmin/tinymce/uploaded/Kotkasim%20DSO%20report_2.pdf" title="Kotkasim DSO report">The Kotkasim Experiment: Field Observations</a><br /><a href="https://im4change.in/siteadmin/tinymce/uploaded/Kotkasim%20DSO%20report_3.pdf" title="Kotkasim DSO report" title="https://im4change.in/siteadmin/tinymce/uploaded/Kotkasim%20DSO%20report_3.pdf" title="Kotkasim DSO report">Kotkasim DSO report (Hindi and English)</a></span></p><p style="text-align: justify; line-height: normal" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle"><br /><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'">Chhattisgarh&rsquo;s Chief Minister&rsquo;s letter to Prime Minister on cash transfers in the PDS<br /></span><a href="https://im4change.in/siteadmin/tinymce/uploaded/CM%20letter.pdf" title="CM letter" title="https://im4change.in/siteadmin/tinymce/uploaded/CM%20letter.pdf" title="CM letter">Chhattisgarh&rsquo;s Chief Minister&rsquo;s letter to Prim<br />e Minister on cash transfers in the PDS</a><br /><a href="https://im4change.in/siteadmin/tinymce/uploaded/Cash%20Transfers%20in%20Brazil.pdf" title="Cash Transfer in Brazil" title="https://im4change.in/siteadmin/tinymce/uploaded/Cash%20Transfers%20in%20Brazil.pdf" title="Cash Transfer in Brazil">Cash Transfers: Real Lessons from Brazil</a><br /><br /><a href="https://im4change.in/siteadmin/tinymce/uploaded/Statement%20of%20the%20RTF%20campaign%20on%20cash%20transfers.pdf" title="Statement of RTF" title="https://im4change.in/siteadmin/tinymce/uploaded/Statement%20of%20the%20RTF%20campaign%20on%20cash%20transfers.pdf" title="Statement of RTF">Statement of the Right to Food Campaign on Cash Transfer</a><br /><a href="https://im4change.in/siteadmin/tinymce/uploaded/Kotkasim%20Hindi.doc" title="Kotkasim Hindi" title="https://im4change.in/siteadmin/tinymce/uploaded/Kotkasim%20Hindi.doc" title="Kotkasim Hindi">Kotkasim_Hindi Document_10 December 2012&nbsp;</a></span><a href="https://im4change.in/siteadmin/tinymce/uploaded/Kotkasim%20Hindi.doc" title="Kotkasim Hindi" title="https://im4change.in/siteadmin/tinymce/uploaded/Kotkasim%20Hindi.doc" title="Kotkasim Hindi"></a></p><a href="https://im4change.in/siteadmin/tinymce/uploaded/Kotkasim%20Hindi.doc" title="Kotkasim Hindi" title="https://im4change.in/siteadmin/tinymce/uploaded/Kotkasim%20Hindi.doc" title="Kotkasim Hindi"></a><p style="text-align: justify; line-height: normal" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle">&nbsp;</p><p style="text-align: justify; line-height: normal" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle">Revivalof the Public Distribution System: Evidence and Explanations-Reetika Khera, Economic and Political Weekly, 5 November, 2011 Vol xlvi no 44 &amp; 45&nbsp;</p><br /><p style="text-align: justify; line-height: normal" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle"><a href="https://im4change.in/siteadmin/tinymce/uploaded/Reetika%20PDS.pdf" title="Reetika PDS" title="https://im4change.in/siteadmin/tinymce/uploaded/Reetika%20PDS.pdf" title="Reetika PDS">Revival of the Public Distribution System: Evidence and Ex<br />planations-Reetika Khera, Economic and Political Weekly, 5<br /> November, 2011 Vol xlvi no 44 &amp; 45&nbsp;</a></p><p style="text-align: justify; line-height: normal" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle">&nbsp;</p><p style="text-align: justify; line-height: normal" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle"><a href="https://im4change.in/siteadmin/tinymce/uploaded/PDS%20chhattisgarh.pdf" title="PDS chhattisgarh" title="https://im4change.in/siteadmin/tinymce/uploaded/PDS%20chhattisgarh.pdf" title="PDS chhattisgarh"></a>Reforming the Public Distribution System: Lessons from Chhattisgarh by Raghav Puri, Economic and Political Weekly, February 4, 2012 Vol xlvIi, No. 5&nbsp;</p><p style="text-align: justify; line-height: normal" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle">&nbsp;</p><a href="https://im4change.in/siteadmin/tinymce/uploaded/Reetika%20PDS.pdf" title="Reetika PDS" title="https://im4change.in/siteadmin/tinymce/uploaded/Reetika%20PDS.pdf" title="Reetika PDS"></a><p style="text-align: justify; line-height: normal" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle"><a href="https://im4change.in/siteadmin/tinymce/uploaded/PDS%20chhattisgarh.pdf" title="PDS chhattisgarh" title="https://im4change.in/siteadmin/tinymce/uploaded/PDS%20chhattisgarh.pdf" title="PDS chhattisgarh">Reforming the Public Distribution System: Lessons from Chh<br />attisgarh by Raghav Puri, Economic and Political Weekly, F<br />ebruary 4, 2012 Vol xlvIi, No. 5</a>&nbsp;</p><p style="text-align: justify; line-height: normal" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle">&nbsp;</p><p style="text-align: justify; line-height: normal" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle"><strong><em><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'">Media reports andstudies on the costs of food security and cash transfer rollouts:</span></em></strong></p><strong><em></em></strong><p style="text-align: justify; line-height: normal" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle"><strong></strong><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'">&nbsp;</span></p><p style="text-align: justify; line-height: normal" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'">Limit nutrition planto only first 2 kids: Panel -Nitin Sethi, The Times of India, 24 January, 2013,</span></p><p style="text-align: justify; line-height: normal" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'"><a href="https://im4change.in/rural-news-update/limit-nutrition-plan-to-only-first-2-kids-panel-nitin-sethi-19052.html" title="https://im4change.in/rural-news-update/limit-nutrition-plan-to-only-first-2-kids-panel-nitin-sethi-19052.html">http://www.im4change.org/rural-news-update/limit-nutrition<br />-plan-to-only-first-2-kids-panel-nitin-sethi-19052.html</a></span></p><p style="text-align: justify; line-height: normal" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'">&nbsp;</span></p><p style="text-align: justify; line-height: normal" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'">Securing Food forAll: Is It Really Difficult to Afford? -Praveen Jha and Nilachala Acharya,Economic and Political Weekly, Vol xlviII No 4, January 26, 2013</span></p><p style="text-align: justify; line-height: normal" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'"><a href="https://im4change.in/rural-news-update/securing-food-for-all-is-it-really-difficult-to-afford-praveen-jha-and-nilachala-acharya-18970.html" title="https://im4change.in/rural-news-update/securing-food-for-all-is-it-really-difficult-to-afford-praveen-jha-and-nilachala-acharya-18970.html">http://www.im4change.org/rural-news-update/securing-food-f<br />or-all-is-it-really-difficult-to-afford-praveen-jha-and-ni<br />lachala-acharya-18970.html</a></span></p><p style="text-align: justify; line-height: normal" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'">&nbsp;</span></p><p style="text-align: justify; line-height: normal" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'">The cost of foodsecurity, The Hindu, 20 January, 2013, <a href="http://www.thehindu.com/opinion/columns/Chandrasekhar/the-cost-of-food-security/article4325479.ece?textsize=large&amp;test=1" title="http://www.thehindu.com/opinion/columns/Chandrasekhar/the-cost-of-food-security/article4325479.ece?textsize=large&amp;test=1">http://www.thehindu.com/opinion/columns/Chandrasekhar/the-<br />cost-of-food-security/article4325479.ece?textsize=large&am<br />p;test=1</a></span></p><p style="text-align: justify; line-height: normal" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'">&nbsp;</span></p><p style="text-align: justify; line-height: normal" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'">Aadhaar-linked DBThits roadblock in East Godavari -Mohammad Ali, The Hindu, 21 January, 2013, </span></p><p style="text-align: justify; line-height: normal" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'"><a href="https://im4change.in/rural-news-update/aadhaar-linked-dbt-hits-roadblock-in-east-godavari-mohammad-ali-18972.html" title="https://im4change.in/rural-news-update/aadhaar-linked-dbt-hits-roadblock-in-east-godavari-mohammad-ali-18972.html">http://www.im4change.org/rural-news-update/aadhaar-linked-<br />dbt-hits-roadblock-in-east-godavari-mohammad-ali-18972.htm<br />l</a></span></p><p style="text-align: justify; line-height: normal" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'">&nbsp;</span></p><p style="text-align: justify; line-height: normal" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'">Rice wars-ChitrangadaChoudhury, The Hindustan Times, 12 November, 2008, <a href="http://www.hindustantimes.com/India-news/Chhattisgarh/Rice-wars/Article1-350851.aspx" 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<div align="justify">A report by a parliamentary standing committee entrusted to examine the National Food Security Bill, 2011 has revived the debate on what measures India must take to end its abysmal track record of hunger and malnutrition, (See several links given below) despite successive years of high growth and record grain procurement. The draft legislation is likely to be debated in the upcoming session of Parliament, even as the recent Jaipur Declaration by the ruling Congress party promises to end hunger and malnutrition in India by 2020.<br /><br />The report by the committee, made up of 29 MPs across party lines, has suggested an individual entitlement of 5kg of grain per month, as opposed to the current entitlement of 35kg per family (roughly 7 kg per individual). Civil society groups have pointed out that this reduced allocation is well below required health norms, even more so for individuals engaged in hard labour, many of whom depend on the PDS.<br /><br />The committee estimates that implementing the act will cost Rs 1,09,796 crore in 2012-13, and while backing the law, expresses worries about its financial sustainability in the future, especially with population rise. Some economists have questioned this estimate, while others argue that the investment is not high given it is still below 1% of India’s GDP. The committee has also controversially suggested that states be divided into three categories as per their financial performance to determine whether they should or should not share the food subsidy bill with the centre, and to what degrees. However, the report does not suggest any parameters on which this classification can be made.<br /><br />While sidestepping the issue of high rates of child malnutrition, it has also argued that maternity benefits (of Rs 1000 a month for 6 months) to expectant mothers not be extended beyond two children. A dissent note from one of the members argues against this proposal, saying such norms and penalties on the mother and child are unfair.<br /><br />The report has also warned against the government’s bid for replacing grain entitlements with direct cash transfers till such time as the financial and banking infrastructure has not been put in place. However, it does not refer to evidence from the ground, which points not just to the roll-out of the cash transfer model, but also the fact that villagers in some instances have voiced a preference for grain over cash, while pointing to the inconvenience of accessing bank services. <br /><br />The opponents of cash transfer include Raman Singh, the Chief Minister of Chhattisgarh, a state which has over the past years introduced a host of technological and administrative measures in its PDS machinery to ensure timely grain deliveries to needy families, while also making the system universal.<br /><br />In a letter to the Prime Minister, stating that cash transfers not be introduced in Chhattisgarh, Singh wrote:<br /><br />“There are lots of problems in implementation of cash subsidy transfer under PDS. In my view, Fair Price Shops under PDS are the only viable and convenient option for access to foodgrains in rural areas in the State. Financial inclusion and availability of IT infrastructure are preconditions to any scheme of cash transfers. There are substantial problems in the State on both accounts. It would also be difficult to fix the monthly cash subsidies in view of fluctuation in market prices. The system is also vulnerable to misuse of cash subsidy amount by the male heads of the households or purchase of non PDS commodities which would defeat the very purpose for which the subsidies are proposed to be transferred.”<br /><br />The committee also reiterates the principle of caps on the population entitled to subsidised grain, as opposed to a universal PDS, as is being implemented in states like Chhattisgarh and Tamil Nadu.<br /><br /></div><div align="justify"><strong><em>Further readings: </em></strong> </div><div align="justify"> </div><div align="justify"><!--[if gte mso 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normal" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle"><a href="https://im4change.in/siteadmin/tinymce/uploaded/PDS%20chhattisgarh.pdf" title="PDS chhattisgarh" title="https://im4change.in/siteadmin/tinymce/uploaded/PDS%20chhattisgarh.pdf" title="PDS chhattisgarh"></a>Reforming the Public Distribution System: Lessons from Chhattisgarh by Raghav Puri, Economic and Political Weekly, February 4, 2012 Vol xlvIi, No. 5 </p><p style="text-align: justify; line-height: normal" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle"> </p><a href="https://im4change.in/siteadmin/tinymce/uploaded/Reetika%20PDS.pdf" title="Reetika PDS" title="https://im4change.in/siteadmin/tinymce/uploaded/Reetika%20PDS.pdf" title="Reetika PDS"></a><p style="text-align: justify; line-height: normal" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle"><a href="https://im4change.in/siteadmin/tinymce/uploaded/PDS%20chhattisgarh.pdf" title="PDS chhattisgarh" title="https://im4change.in/siteadmin/tinymce/uploaded/PDS%20chhattisgarh.pdf" title="PDS chhattisgarh">Reforming the Public Distribution System: Lessons from Chh<br />attisgarh by Raghav Puri, Economic and Political Weekly, F<br />ebruary 4, 2012 Vol xlvIi, No. 5</a> </p><p style="text-align: justify; line-height: normal" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle"> </p><p style="text-align: justify; line-height: normal" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle"><strong><em><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'">Media reports andstudies on the costs of food security and cash transfer rollouts:</span></em></strong></p><strong><em></em></strong><p style="text-align: justify; line-height: normal" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle"><strong></strong><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'"> </span></p><p style="text-align: justify; line-height: normal" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'">Limit nutrition planto only first 2 kids: Panel -Nitin Sethi, The Times of India, 24 January, 2013,</span></p><p style="text-align: justify; line-height: 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A report by a parliamentary standing committee entrusted to examine the National Food Security Bill, 2011 has revived the debate on what measures India must take to end its abysmal track record of hunger and malnutrition, (See several links given below) despite successive years of high growth and record grain procurement. The draft legislation is likely to be debated in the upcoming session of Parliament, even as the recent Jaipur Declaration by the ruling Congress party promises to end hunger and malnutrition in India by 2020.<br />
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The report by the committee, made up of 29 MPs across party lines, has suggested an individual entitlement of 5kg of grain per month, as opposed to the current entitlement of 35kg per family (roughly 7 kg per individual). Civil society groups have pointed out that this reduced allocation is well below required health norms, even more so for individuals engaged in hard labour, many of whom depend on the PDS.<br />
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The committee estimates that implementing the act will cost Rs 1,09,796 crore in 2012-13, and while backing the law, expresses worries about its financial sustainability in the future, especially with population rise. Some economists have questioned this estimate, while others argue that the investment&nbsp; is not high given it is still below 1% of India&rsquo;s GDP. The committee has also controversially suggested that states be divided into three categories as per their financial performance to determine whether they should or should not share the food subsidy bill with the centre, and to what degrees. However, the report does not suggest any parameters on which this classification can be made.<br />
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While sidestepping the issue of high rates of child malnutrition, it has also argued that maternity benefits (of Rs 1000 a month for 6 months) to expectant mothers not be extended beyond two children. A dissent note from one of the members argues against this proposal, saying such norms and penalties on the mother and child are unfair.<br />
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The report has also warned against the government&rsquo;s bid for replacing grain entitlements with direct cash transfers till such time as the financial and banking infrastructure has not been put in place. However, it does not refer to evidence from the ground, which points not just to the roll-out of the cash transfer model, but also the fact that villagers in some instances have voiced a preference for grain over cash, while pointing to the inconvenience of accessing bank services. &nbsp;<br />
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The opponents of cash transfer include Raman Singh, the Chief Minister of Chhattisgarh, a state which has over the past years introduced a host of technological and administrative measures in its PDS machinery to ensure timely grain deliveries to needy families, while also making the system universal.<br />
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In a letter to the Prime Minister, stating that cash transfers not be introduced in Chhattisgarh, Singh wrote:<br />
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&ldquo;There are lots of problems in implementation of cash subsidy transfer under PDS. In my view, Fair Price Shops under PDS are the only viable and convenient option for access to foodgrains in rural areas in the State. Financial inclusion and availability of IT infrastructure are preconditions to any scheme of cash transfers. There are substantial problems in the State on both accounts. It would also be difficult to fix the monthly cash subsidies in view of fluctuation in market prices. The system is also vulnerable to misuse of cash subsidy amount by the male heads of the households or purchase of non PDS commodities which would defeat the very purpose for which the subsidies are proposed to be transferred.&rdquo;<br />
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The committee also reiterates the principle of caps on the population entitled to subsidised grain, as opposed to a universal PDS, as is being implemented in states like Chhattisgarh and Tamil Nadu.<br />
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<span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'">National Food
Security Bill, 2011, Bill No. 132 of 2011 (as introduced in Lok Sabha)</span>
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<a href="tinymce/uploaded/National%20Food%20Security%20Bill%202011.pdf" title="National Food Security Bill 2011"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'">National Food
Security Bill, 2011, Bill No. 132 of 2011 (as introduced in Lok Sabha)</span></a>
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<a href="tinymce/uploaded/National%20Food%20Security%20Bill%202011.pdf" title="National Food Security Bill 2011">
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<span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'">Standing Committee Report
on National Food Security Bill, 2011, Twenty Seventh Report (January, 2013),
Fifteenth Lok Sabha</span>
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on National Food Security Bill, 2011, Twenty Seventh Report (January, 2013),
Fifteenth Lok Sabha</span></a>
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<a href="tinymce/uploaded/Standing%20Committee%20Report%20on%20NFSB.pdf" title="Standing Committee Report on NFSB">
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<span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'">Cash Subsidy for Kerosene Pilot: Poor stand Deprived by Design?-Case of Kotkasim, Alwar, Rajasthan (part 1)<br />
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<a href="tinymce/uploaded/Kotkasim%20DSO%20report_2.pdf" title="Kotkasim DSO report">The Kotkasim Experiment: Field Observations<br />
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<a href="tinymce/uploaded/Kotkasim%20DSO%20report_3.pdf" title="Kotkasim DSO report">Kotkasim DSO report (Hindi and English)<br />
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<span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'">Chhattisgarh&rsquo;s Chief Minister&rsquo;s letter to Prime Minister on cash transfers in the PDS<br />
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<a href="tinymce/uploaded/CM%20letter.pdf" title="CM letter">Chhattisgarh&rsquo;s Chief Minister&rsquo;s letter to Prime Minister on cash transfers in the PDS<br />
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<a href="tinymce/uploaded/Cash%20Transfers%20in%20Brazil.pdf" title="Cash Transfer in Brazil">Cash Transfers: Real Lessons from Brazil</a><br />
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<a href="tinymce/uploaded/Statement%20of%20the%20RTF%20campaign%20on%20cash%20transfers.pdf" title="Statement of RTF">Statement of the Right to Food Campaign on Cash Transfer<br />
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<a href="tinymce/uploaded/Kotkasim%20Hindi.doc" title="Kotkasim Hindi">Kotkasim_Hindi Document_10 December 2012&nbsp;</a></span><a href="tinymce/uploaded/Kotkasim%20Hindi.doc" title="Kotkasim Hindi">
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Revival
of the Public Distribution System: Evidence and Explanations-Reetika
Khera, Economic and Political Weekly, 5 November, 2011 Vol xlvi no 44
&amp; 45&nbsp;
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<a href="tinymce/uploaded/PDS%20chhattisgarh.pdf" title="PDS chhattisgarh">
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Raghav Puri, Economic and Political Weekly, February 4, 2012 Vol xlvIi,
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<span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'">Securing Food for
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<span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'">The cost of food
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Cash in lieu of PDS: A dangerous step-Sachin Kumar Jain, Panchayatnama, 17 December-23 December, 2012&nbsp;
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ENDING HUNGER-A special issue, Seminar, June, 2012, <a href="http://india-seminar.com/2012/634.htm">http://india-seminar.com/2012/634.htm</a>&nbsp; <br />
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A report by a parliamentary standing committee entrusted to examine the National Food Security Bill, 2011 has revived the debate on what measures India must take to end its abysmal track record of hunger and malnutrition, (See several links given...',
'disp' => '<div align="justify">A report by a parliamentary standing committee entrusted to examine the National Food Security Bill, 2011 has revived the debate on what measures India must take to end its abysmal track record of hunger and malnutrition, (See several links given below) despite successive years of high growth and record grain procurement. The draft legislation is likely to be debated in the upcoming session of Parliament, even as the recent Jaipur Declaration by the ruling Congress party promises to end hunger and malnutrition in India by 2020.<br /><br />The report by the committee, made up of 29 MPs across party lines, has suggested an individual entitlement of 5kg of grain per month, as opposed to the current entitlement of 35kg per family (roughly 7 kg per individual). Civil society groups have pointed out that this reduced allocation is well below required health norms, even more so for individuals engaged in hard labour, many of whom depend on the PDS.<br /><br />The committee estimates that implementing the act will cost Rs 1,09,796 crore in 2012-13, and while backing the law, expresses worries about its financial sustainability in the future, especially with population rise. Some economists have questioned this estimate, while others argue that the investment&nbsp; is not high given it is still below 1% of India&rsquo;s GDP. The committee has also controversially suggested that states be divided into three categories as per their financial performance to determine whether they should or should not share the food subsidy bill with the centre, and to what degrees. However, the report does not suggest any parameters on which this classification can be made.<br /><br />While sidestepping the issue of high rates of child malnutrition, it has also argued that maternity benefits (of Rs 1000 a month for 6 months) to expectant mothers not be extended beyond two children. A dissent note from one of the members argues against this proposal, saying such norms and penalties on the mother and child are unfair.<br /><br />The report has also warned against the government&rsquo;s bid for replacing grain entitlements with direct cash transfers till such time as the financial and banking infrastructure has not been put in place. However, it does not refer to evidence from the ground, which points not just to the roll-out of the cash transfer model, but also the fact that villagers in some instances have voiced a preference for grain over cash, while pointing to the inconvenience of accessing bank services. &nbsp;<br /><br />The opponents of cash transfer include Raman Singh, the Chief Minister of Chhattisgarh, a state which has over the past years introduced a host of technological and administrative measures in its PDS machinery to ensure timely grain deliveries to needy families, while also making the system universal.<br /><br />In a letter to the Prime Minister, stating that cash transfers not be introduced in Chhattisgarh, Singh wrote:<br /><br />&ldquo;There are lots of problems in implementation of cash subsidy transfer under PDS. In my view, Fair Price Shops under PDS are the only viable and convenient option for access to foodgrains in rural areas in the State. Financial inclusion and availability of IT infrastructure are preconditions to any scheme of cash transfers. There are substantial problems in the State on both accounts. It would also be difficult to fix the monthly cash subsidies in view of fluctuation in market prices. The system is also vulnerable to misuse of cash subsidy amount by the male heads of the households or purchase of non PDS commodities which would defeat the very purpose for which the subsidies are proposed to be transferred.&rdquo;<br /><br />The committee also reiterates the principle of caps on the population entitled to subsidised grain, as opposed to a universal PDS, as is being implemented in states like Chhattisgarh and Tamil Nadu.<br /><br /></div><div align="justify"><strong><em>Further readings:&nbsp;</em></strong> </div><div align="justify">&nbsp;</div><div align="justify"><!--[if gte mso 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href="https://im4change.in/siteadmin/tinymce/uploaded/National%20Food%20Security%20Bill%202011.pdf" title="National Food Security Bill 2011" title="https://im4change.in/siteadmin/tinymce/uploaded/National%20Food%20Security%20Bill%202011.pdf" title="National Food Security Bill 2011"></a><p style="text-align: justify; line-height: normal" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle">&nbsp;</p><p style="text-align: justify; line-height: normal" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'">Standing Committee Reporton National Food Security Bill, 2011, Twenty Seventh Report (January, 2013),Fifteenth Lok Sabha</span></p><p style="text-align: justify; line-height: normal" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'">&nbsp;</span></p><p style="text-align: justify; line-height: normal" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle"><a href="https://im4change.in/siteadmin/tinymce/uploaded/Standing%20Committee%20Report%20on%20NFSB.pdf" 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href="https://im4change.in/siteadmin/tinymce/uploaded/Statement%20of%20the%20RTF%20campaign%20on%20cash%20transfers.pdf" title="Statement of RTF" title="https://im4change.in/siteadmin/tinymce/uploaded/Statement%20of%20the%20RTF%20campaign%20on%20cash%20transfers.pdf" title="Statement of RTF">Statement of the Right to Food Campaign on Cash Transfer</a><br /><a href="https://im4change.in/siteadmin/tinymce/uploaded/Kotkasim%20Hindi.doc" title="Kotkasim Hindi" title="https://im4change.in/siteadmin/tinymce/uploaded/Kotkasim%20Hindi.doc" title="Kotkasim Hindi">Kotkasim_Hindi Document_10 December 2012&nbsp;</a></span><a href="https://im4change.in/siteadmin/tinymce/uploaded/Kotkasim%20Hindi.doc" title="Kotkasim Hindi" title="https://im4change.in/siteadmin/tinymce/uploaded/Kotkasim%20Hindi.doc" title="Kotkasim Hindi"></a></p><a href="https://im4change.in/siteadmin/tinymce/uploaded/Kotkasim%20Hindi.doc" title="Kotkasim Hindi" title="https://im4change.in/siteadmin/tinymce/uploaded/Kotkasim%20Hindi.doc" title="Kotkasim Hindi"></a><p style="text-align: justify; line-height: normal" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle">&nbsp;</p><p style="text-align: justify; line-height: normal" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle">Revivalof the Public Distribution System: Evidence and Explanations-Reetika Khera, Economic and Political Weekly, 5 November, 2011 Vol xlvi no 44 &amp; 45&nbsp;</p><br /><p style="text-align: justify; line-height: normal" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle"><a href="https://im4change.in/siteadmin/tinymce/uploaded/Reetika%20PDS.pdf" title="Reetika PDS" title="https://im4change.in/siteadmin/tinymce/uploaded/Reetika%20PDS.pdf" title="Reetika PDS">Revival of the Public Distribution System: Evidence and Ex<br />planations-Reetika Khera, Economic and Political Weekly, 5<br /> November, 2011 Vol xlvi no 44 &amp; 45&nbsp;</a></p><p style="text-align: justify; line-height: normal" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle">&nbsp;</p><p style="text-align: justify; line-height: normal" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle"><a href="https://im4change.in/siteadmin/tinymce/uploaded/PDS%20chhattisgarh.pdf" title="PDS chhattisgarh" title="https://im4change.in/siteadmin/tinymce/uploaded/PDS%20chhattisgarh.pdf" title="PDS chhattisgarh"></a>Reforming the Public Distribution System: Lessons from Chhattisgarh by Raghav Puri, Economic and Political Weekly, February 4, 2012 Vol xlvIi, No. 5&nbsp;</p><p style="text-align: justify; line-height: normal" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle">&nbsp;</p><a href="https://im4change.in/siteadmin/tinymce/uploaded/Reetika%20PDS.pdf" title="Reetika PDS" title="https://im4change.in/siteadmin/tinymce/uploaded/Reetika%20PDS.pdf" title="Reetika PDS"></a><p style="text-align: justify; line-height: normal" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle"><a href="https://im4change.in/siteadmin/tinymce/uploaded/PDS%20chhattisgarh.pdf" title="PDS chhattisgarh" title="https://im4change.in/siteadmin/tinymce/uploaded/PDS%20chhattisgarh.pdf" title="PDS chhattisgarh">Reforming the Public Distribution System: Lessons from Chh<br />attisgarh by Raghav Puri, Economic and Political Weekly, F<br />ebruary 4, 2012 Vol xlvIi, No. 5</a>&nbsp;</p><p style="text-align: justify; line-height: normal" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle">&nbsp;</p><p style="text-align: justify; line-height: normal" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle"><strong><em><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'">Media reports andstudies on the costs of food security and cash transfer rollouts:</span></em></strong></p><strong><em></em></strong><p style="text-align: justify; line-height: normal" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle"><strong></strong><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'">&nbsp;</span></p><p style="text-align: justify; line-height: normal" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'">Limit nutrition planto only first 2 kids: Panel -Nitin Sethi, The Times of India, 24 January, 2013,</span></p><p style="text-align: justify; line-height: normal" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'"><a href="https://im4change.in/rural-news-update/limit-nutrition-plan-to-only-first-2-kids-panel-nitin-sethi-19052.html" title="https://im4change.in/rural-news-update/limit-nutrition-plan-to-only-first-2-kids-panel-nitin-sethi-19052.html">http://www.im4change.org/rural-news-update/limit-nutrition<br />-plan-to-only-first-2-kids-panel-nitin-sethi-19052.html</a></span></p><p style="text-align: justify; line-height: normal" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'">&nbsp;</span></p><p style="text-align: justify; line-height: normal" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'">Securing Food forAll: Is It Really Difficult to Afford? -Praveen Jha and Nilachala Acharya,Economic and Political Weekly, Vol xlviII No 4, January 26, 2013</span></p><p style="text-align: justify; line-height: normal" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'"><a href="https://im4change.in/rural-news-update/securing-food-for-all-is-it-really-difficult-to-afford-praveen-jha-and-nilachala-acharya-18970.html" title="https://im4change.in/rural-news-update/securing-food-for-all-is-it-really-difficult-to-afford-praveen-jha-and-nilachala-acharya-18970.html">http://www.im4change.org/rural-news-update/securing-food-f<br />or-all-is-it-really-difficult-to-afford-praveen-jha-and-ni<br />lachala-acharya-18970.html</a></span></p><p style="text-align: justify; line-height: normal" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'">&nbsp;</span></p><p style="text-align: justify; line-height: normal" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'">The cost of foodsecurity, The Hindu, 20 January, 2013, <a href="http://www.thehindu.com/opinion/columns/Chandrasekhar/the-cost-of-food-security/article4325479.ece?textsize=large&amp;test=1" title="http://www.thehindu.com/opinion/columns/Chandrasekhar/the-cost-of-food-security/article4325479.ece?textsize=large&amp;test=1">http://www.thehindu.com/opinion/columns/Chandrasekhar/the-<br />cost-of-food-security/article4325479.ece?textsize=large&am<br />p;test=1</a></span></p><p style="text-align: justify; line-height: normal" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'">&nbsp;</span></p><p style="text-align: justify; line-height: normal" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'">Aadhaar-linked DBThits roadblock in East Godavari -Mohammad Ali, The Hindu, 21 January, 2013, </span></p><p style="text-align: justify; line-height: normal" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'"><a 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A report by a parliamentary standing committee entrusted to examine the National Food Security Bill, 2011 has revived the debate on what measures India must take to end its abysmal track record of hunger and malnutrition, (See several links given below) despite successive years of high growth and record grain procurement. The draft legislation is likely to be debated in the upcoming session of Parliament, even as the recent Jaipur Declaration by the ruling Congress party promises to end hunger and malnutrition in India by 2020.<br />
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The report by the committee, made up of 29 MPs across party lines, has suggested an individual entitlement of 5kg of grain per month, as opposed to the current entitlement of 35kg per family (roughly 7 kg per individual). Civil society groups have pointed out that this reduced allocation is well below required health norms, even more so for individuals engaged in hard labour, many of whom depend on the PDS.<br />
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The committee estimates that implementing the act will cost Rs 1,09,796 crore in 2012-13, and while backing the law, expresses worries about its financial sustainability in the future, especially with population rise. Some economists have questioned this estimate, while others argue that the investment&nbsp; is not high given it is still below 1% of India&rsquo;s GDP. The committee has also controversially suggested that states be divided into three categories as per their financial performance to determine whether they should or should not share the food subsidy bill with the centre, and to what degrees. However, the report does not suggest any parameters on which this classification can be made.<br />
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While sidestepping the issue of high rates of child malnutrition, it has also argued that maternity benefits (of Rs 1000 a month for 6 months) to expectant mothers not be extended beyond two children. A dissent note from one of the members argues against this proposal, saying such norms and penalties on the mother and child are unfair.<br />
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The report has also warned against the government&rsquo;s bid for replacing grain entitlements with direct cash transfers till such time as the financial and banking infrastructure has not been put in place. However, it does not refer to evidence from the ground, which points not just to the roll-out of the cash transfer model, but also the fact that villagers in some instances have voiced a preference for grain over cash, while pointing to the inconvenience of accessing bank services. &nbsp;<br />
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The opponents of cash transfer include Raman Singh, the Chief Minister of Chhattisgarh, a state which has over the past years introduced a host of technological and administrative measures in its PDS machinery to ensure timely grain deliveries to needy families, while also making the system universal.<br />
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In a letter to the Prime Minister, stating that cash transfers not be introduced in Chhattisgarh, Singh wrote:<br />
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&ldquo;There are lots of problems in implementation of cash subsidy transfer under PDS. In my view, Fair Price Shops under PDS are the only viable and convenient option for access to foodgrains in rural areas in the State. Financial inclusion and availability of IT infrastructure are preconditions to any scheme of cash transfers. There are substantial problems in the State on both accounts. It would also be difficult to fix the monthly cash subsidies in view of fluctuation in market prices. The system is also vulnerable to misuse of cash subsidy amount by the male heads of the households or purchase of non PDS commodities which would defeat the very purpose for which the subsidies are proposed to be transferred.&rdquo;<br />
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The committee also reiterates the principle of caps on the population entitled to subsidised grain, as opposed to a universal PDS, as is being implemented in states like Chhattisgarh and Tamil Nadu.<br />
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<strong><em>Further readings:&nbsp;</em></strong>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'">National Food
Security Bill, 2011, Bill No. 132 of 2011 (as introduced in Lok Sabha)</span>
</p>
<span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'"></span> <br />
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<a href="tinymce/uploaded/National%20Food%20Security%20Bill%202011.pdf" title="National Food Security Bill 2011"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'">National Food
Security Bill, 2011, Bill No. 132 of 2011 (as introduced in Lok Sabha)</span></a>
</p>
<a href="tinymce/uploaded/National%20Food%20Security%20Bill%202011.pdf" title="National Food Security Bill 2011">
</a>
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&nbsp;
</p>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'">Standing Committee Report
on National Food Security Bill, 2011, Twenty Seventh Report (January, 2013),
Fifteenth Lok Sabha</span>
</p>
<p style="text-align: justify; line-height: normal" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle">
<span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'">&nbsp;</span>
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<a href="tinymce/uploaded/Standing%20Committee%20Report%20on%20NFSB.pdf" title="Standing Committee Report on NFSB"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'">Standing Committee Report
on National Food Security Bill, 2011, Twenty Seventh Report (January, 2013),
Fifteenth Lok Sabha</span></a>
</p>
<a href="tinymce/uploaded/Standing%20Committee%20Report%20on%20NFSB.pdf" title="Standing Committee Report on NFSB">
</a>
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&nbsp;
</p>
<p style="text-align: justify; line-height: normal" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle">
<span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'">Cash Subsidy for Kerosene Pilot: Poor stand Deprived by Design?-Case of Kotkasim, Alwar, Rajasthan (part 1)<br />
</span>&nbsp;
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<span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'"><a href="tinymce/uploaded/Kotkasim%20DSO%20report.pdf" title="DSO report">Cash Subsidy for Kerosene Pilot: Poor stand Deprived by Design?-Case of Kotkasim, Alwar, Rajasthan (part 1)<br />
</a><br />
<a href="tinymce/uploaded/Kotkasim%20DSO%20report_2.pdf" title="Kotkasim DSO report">The Kotkasim Experiment: Field Observations<br />
</a><br />
<a href="tinymce/uploaded/Kotkasim%20DSO%20report_3.pdf" title="Kotkasim DSO report">Kotkasim DSO report (Hindi and English)<br />
</a></span>
</p>
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<br />
<span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'">Chhattisgarh&rsquo;s Chief Minister&rsquo;s letter to Prime Minister on cash transfers in the PDS<br />
</span>
<a href="tinymce/uploaded/CM%20letter.pdf" title="CM letter">Chhattisgarh&rsquo;s Chief Minister&rsquo;s letter to Prime Minister on cash transfers in the PDS<br />
</a><br />
<a href="tinymce/uploaded/Cash%20Transfers%20in%20Brazil.pdf" title="Cash Transfer in Brazil">Cash Transfers: Real Lessons from Brazil</a><br />
<br />
<a href="tinymce/uploaded/Statement%20of%20the%20RTF%20campaign%20on%20cash%20transfers.pdf" title="Statement of RTF">Statement of the Right to Food Campaign on Cash Transfer<br />
</a><br />
<a href="tinymce/uploaded/Kotkasim%20Hindi.doc" title="Kotkasim Hindi">Kotkasim_Hindi Document_10 December 2012&nbsp;</a></span><a href="tinymce/uploaded/Kotkasim%20Hindi.doc" title="Kotkasim Hindi">
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<a href="tinymce/uploaded/Kotkasim%20Hindi.doc" title="Kotkasim Hindi">
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<p style="text-align: justify; line-height: normal" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle">
Revival
of the Public Distribution System: Evidence and Explanations-Reetika
Khera, Economic and Political Weekly, 5 November, 2011 Vol xlvi no 44
&amp; 45&nbsp;
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<a href="tinymce/uploaded/Reetika%20PDS.pdf" title="Reetika PDS">Revival of the Public Distribution System: Evidence and Explanations-Reetika Khera, Economic and Political Weekly, 5 November, 2011 Vol xlvi no 44 &amp; 45&nbsp;
</a>
</p>
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&nbsp;
</p>
<p style="text-align: justify; line-height: normal" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle">
<a href="tinymce/uploaded/PDS%20chhattisgarh.pdf" title="PDS chhattisgarh">
</a>Reforming the Public Distribution System: Lessons from Chhattisgarh by
Raghav Puri, Economic and Political Weekly, February 4, 2012 Vol xlvIi,
No. 5&nbsp;
</p>
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&nbsp;
</p>
<a href="tinymce/uploaded/Reetika%20PDS.pdf" title="Reetika PDS">
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<a href="tinymce/uploaded/PDS%20chhattisgarh.pdf" title="PDS chhattisgarh">
Reforming the Public Distribution System: Lessons from Chhattisgarh by Raghav Puri, Economic and Political Weekly, February 4, 2012 Vol xlvIi, No. 5</a>&nbsp;
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<strong><em><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'">Media reports and
studies on the costs of food security and cash transfer rollouts:</span></em></strong>
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</em>
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</strong><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'">&nbsp;</span>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'">Limit nutrition plan
to only first 2 kids: Panel -Nitin Sethi, The Times of India, 24 January, 2013,
</span>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'"><a href="../rural-news-update/limit-nutrition-plan-to-only-first-2-kids-panel-nitin-sethi-19052.html">http://www.im4change.org/rural-news-update/limit-nutrition-plan-to-only-first-2-kids-panel-nitin-sethi-19052.html</a>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'">&nbsp;</span>
</p>
<p style="text-align: justify; line-height: normal" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle">
<span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'">Securing Food for
All: Is It Really Difficult to Afford? -Praveen Jha and Nilachala Acharya,
Economic and Political Weekly, Vol xlviII No 4, January 26, 2013</span>
</p>
<p style="text-align: justify; line-height: normal" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle">
<span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'"><a href="../rural-news-update/securing-food-for-all-is-it-really-difficult-to-afford-praveen-jha-and-nilachala-acharya-18970.html">http://www.im4change.org/rural-news-update/securing-food-for-all-is-it-really-difficult-to-afford-praveen-jha-and-nilachala-acharya-18970.html</a>
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</p>
<p style="text-align: justify; line-height: normal" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle">
<span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'">&nbsp;</span>
</p>
<p style="text-align: justify; line-height: normal" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle">
<span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'">The cost of food
security, The Hindu, 20 January, 2013, <a href="http://www.thehindu.com/opinion/columns/Chandrasekhar/the-cost-of-food-security/article4325479.ece?textsize=large&amp;test=1">http://www.thehindu.com/opinion/columns/Chandrasekhar/the-cost-of-food-security/article4325479.ece?textsize=large&amp;test=1</a>
</span>
</p>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'">&nbsp;</span>
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<p style="text-align: justify; line-height: normal" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle">
<span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'">Aadhaar-linked DBT
hits roadblock in East Godavari -Mohammad Ali, The Hindu, 21 January, 2013, </span>
</p>
<p style="text-align: justify; line-height: normal" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle">
<span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'"><a href="../rural-news-update/aadhaar-linked-dbt-hits-roadblock-in-east-godavari-mohammad-ali-18972.html">http://www.im4change.org/rural-news-update/aadhaar-linked-dbt-hits-roadblock-in-east-godavari-mohammad-ali-18972.html</a>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'">&nbsp;</span>
</p>
<p style="text-align: justify; line-height: normal" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle">
<span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'">Rice wars-Chitrangada
Choudhury, The Hindustan Times, 12 November, 2008, <a href="http://www.hindustantimes.com/India-news/Chhattisgarh/Rice-wars/Article1-350851.aspx">http://www.hindustantimes.com/India-news/Chhattisgarh/Rice-wars/Article1-350851.aspx</a>
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Cash in lieu of PDS: A dangerous step-Sachin Kumar Jain, Panchayatnama, 17 December-23 December, 2012&nbsp;
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ENDING HUNGER-A special issue, Seminar, June, 2012, <a href="http://india-seminar.com/2012/634.htm">http://india-seminar.com/2012/634.htm</a>&nbsp; <br />
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A report by a parliamentary standing committee entrusted to examine the National Food Security Bill, 2011 has revived the debate on what measures India must take to end its abysmal track record of hunger and malnutrition, (See several links given...'
$disp = '<div align="justify">A report by a parliamentary standing committee entrusted to examine the National Food Security Bill, 2011 has revived the debate on what measures India must take to end its abysmal track record of hunger and malnutrition, (See several links given below) despite successive years of high growth and record grain procurement. The draft legislation is likely to be debated in the upcoming session of Parliament, even as the recent Jaipur Declaration by the ruling Congress party promises to end hunger and malnutrition in India by 2020.<br /><br />The report by the committee, made up of 29 MPs across party lines, has suggested an individual entitlement of 5kg of grain per month, as opposed to the current entitlement of 35kg per family (roughly 7 kg per individual). Civil society groups have pointed out that this reduced allocation is well below required health norms, even more so for individuals engaged in hard labour, many of whom depend on the PDS.<br /><br />The committee estimates that implementing the act will cost Rs 1,09,796 crore in 2012-13, and while backing the law, expresses worries about its financial sustainability in the future, especially with population rise. Some economists have questioned this estimate, while others argue that the investment&nbsp; is not high given it is still below 1% of India&rsquo;s GDP. The committee has also controversially suggested that states be divided into three categories as per their financial performance to determine whether they should or should not share the food subsidy bill with the centre, and to what degrees. However, the report does not suggest any parameters on which this classification can be made.<br /><br />While sidestepping the issue of high rates of child malnutrition, it has also argued that maternity benefits (of Rs 1000 a month for 6 months) to expectant mothers not be extended beyond two children. A dissent note from one of the members argues against this proposal, saying such norms and penalties on the mother and child are unfair.<br /><br />The report has also warned against the government&rsquo;s bid for replacing grain entitlements with direct cash transfers till such time as the financial and banking infrastructure has not been put in place. However, it does not refer to evidence from the ground, which points not just to the roll-out of the cash transfer model, but also the fact that villagers in some instances have voiced a preference for grain over cash, while pointing to the inconvenience of accessing bank services. &nbsp;<br /><br />The opponents of cash transfer include Raman Singh, the Chief Minister of Chhattisgarh, a state which has over the past years introduced a host of technological and administrative measures in its PDS machinery to ensure timely grain deliveries to needy families, while also making the system universal.<br /><br />In a letter to the Prime Minister, stating that cash transfers not be introduced in Chhattisgarh, Singh wrote:<br /><br />&ldquo;There are lots of problems in implementation of cash subsidy transfer under PDS. In my view, Fair Price Shops under PDS are the only viable and convenient option for access to foodgrains in rural areas in the State. Financial inclusion and availability of IT infrastructure are preconditions to any scheme of cash transfers. There are substantial problems in the State on both accounts. It would also be difficult to fix the monthly cash subsidies in view of fluctuation in market prices. The system is also vulnerable to misuse of cash subsidy amount by the male heads of the households or purchase of non PDS commodities which would defeat the very purpose for which the subsidies are proposed to be transferred.&rdquo;<br /><br />The committee also reiterates the principle of caps on the population entitled to subsidised grain, as opposed to a universal PDS, as is being implemented in states like Chhattisgarh and Tamil Nadu.<br /><br /></div><div align="justify"><strong><em>Further readings:&nbsp;</em></strong> </div><div align="justify">&nbsp;</div><div align="justify"><!--[if gte mso 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href="https://im4change.in/siteadmin/tinymce/uploaded/Statement%20of%20the%20RTF%20campaign%20on%20cash%20transfers.pdf" title="Statement of RTF" title="https://im4change.in/siteadmin/tinymce/uploaded/Statement%20of%20the%20RTF%20campaign%20on%20cash%20transfers.pdf" title="Statement of RTF">Statement of the Right to Food Campaign on Cash Transfer</a><br /><a href="https://im4change.in/siteadmin/tinymce/uploaded/Kotkasim%20Hindi.doc" title="Kotkasim Hindi" title="https://im4change.in/siteadmin/tinymce/uploaded/Kotkasim%20Hindi.doc" title="Kotkasim Hindi">Kotkasim_Hindi Document_10 December 2012&nbsp;</a></span><a href="https://im4change.in/siteadmin/tinymce/uploaded/Kotkasim%20Hindi.doc" title="Kotkasim Hindi" title="https://im4change.in/siteadmin/tinymce/uploaded/Kotkasim%20Hindi.doc" title="Kotkasim Hindi"></a></p><a href="https://im4change.in/siteadmin/tinymce/uploaded/Kotkasim%20Hindi.doc" title="Kotkasim Hindi" title="https://im4change.in/siteadmin/tinymce/uploaded/Kotkasim%20Hindi.doc" title="Kotkasim Hindi"></a><p style="text-align: justify; line-height: normal" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle">&nbsp;</p><p style="text-align: justify; line-height: normal" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle">Revivalof the Public Distribution System: Evidence and Explanations-Reetika Khera, Economic and Political Weekly, 5 November, 2011 Vol xlvi no 44 &amp; 45&nbsp;</p><br /><p style="text-align: justify; line-height: normal" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle"><a href="https://im4change.in/siteadmin/tinymce/uploaded/Reetika%20PDS.pdf" title="Reetika PDS" title="https://im4change.in/siteadmin/tinymce/uploaded/Reetika%20PDS.pdf" title="Reetika PDS">Revival of the Public Distribution System: Evidence and Ex<br />planations-Reetika Khera, Economic and Political Weekly, 5<br /> November, 2011 Vol xlvi no 44 &amp; 45&nbsp;</a></p><p style="text-align: justify; line-height: normal" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle">&nbsp;</p><p style="text-align: justify; line-height: normal" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle"><a href="https://im4change.in/siteadmin/tinymce/uploaded/PDS%20chhattisgarh.pdf" title="PDS chhattisgarh" title="https://im4change.in/siteadmin/tinymce/uploaded/PDS%20chhattisgarh.pdf" title="PDS chhattisgarh"></a>Reforming the Public Distribution System: Lessons from Chhattisgarh by Raghav Puri, Economic and Political Weekly, February 4, 2012 Vol xlvIi, No. 5&nbsp;</p><p style="text-align: justify; line-height: normal" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle">&nbsp;</p><a href="https://im4change.in/siteadmin/tinymce/uploaded/Reetika%20PDS.pdf" title="Reetika PDS" title="https://im4change.in/siteadmin/tinymce/uploaded/Reetika%20PDS.pdf" title="Reetika PDS"></a><p style="text-align: justify; line-height: normal" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle"><a href="https://im4change.in/siteadmin/tinymce/uploaded/PDS%20chhattisgarh.pdf" title="PDS chhattisgarh" title="https://im4change.in/siteadmin/tinymce/uploaded/PDS%20chhattisgarh.pdf" title="PDS chhattisgarh">Reforming the Public Distribution System: Lessons from Chh<br />attisgarh by Raghav Puri, Economic and Political Weekly, F<br />ebruary 4, 2012 Vol xlvIi, No. 5</a>&nbsp;</p><p style="text-align: justify; line-height: normal" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle">&nbsp;</p><p style="text-align: justify; line-height: normal" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle"><strong><em><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'">Media reports andstudies on the costs of food security and cash transfer rollouts:</span></em></strong></p><strong><em></em></strong><p style="text-align: justify; line-height: normal" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle"><strong></strong><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'">&nbsp;</span></p><p style="text-align: justify; line-height: normal" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'">Limit nutrition planto only first 2 kids: Panel -Nitin Sethi, The Times of India, 24 January, 2013,</span></p><p style="text-align: justify; line-height: normal" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'"><a href="https://im4change.in/rural-news-update/limit-nutrition-plan-to-only-first-2-kids-panel-nitin-sethi-19052.html" title="https://im4change.in/rural-news-update/limit-nutrition-plan-to-only-first-2-kids-panel-nitin-sethi-19052.html">http://www.im4change.org/rural-news-update/limit-nutrition<br />-plan-to-only-first-2-kids-panel-nitin-sethi-19052.html</a></span></p><p style="text-align: justify; line-height: normal" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'">&nbsp;</span></p><p style="text-align: justify; line-height: normal" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'">Securing Food forAll: Is It Really Difficult to Afford? -Praveen Jha and Nilachala Acharya,Economic and Political Weekly, Vol xlviII No 4, January 26, 2013</span></p><p style="text-align: justify; line-height: normal" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'"><a href="https://im4change.in/rural-news-update/securing-food-for-all-is-it-really-difficult-to-afford-praveen-jha-and-nilachala-acharya-18970.html" title="https://im4change.in/rural-news-update/securing-food-for-all-is-it-really-difficult-to-afford-praveen-jha-and-nilachala-acharya-18970.html">http://www.im4change.org/rural-news-update/securing-food-f<br />or-all-is-it-really-difficult-to-afford-praveen-jha-and-ni<br />lachala-acharya-18970.html</a></span></p><p style="text-align: justify; line-height: normal" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'">&nbsp;</span></p><p style="text-align: justify; line-height: normal" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'">The cost of foodsecurity, The Hindu, 20 January, 2013, <a href="http://www.thehindu.com/opinion/columns/Chandrasekhar/the-cost-of-food-security/article4325479.ece?textsize=large&amp;test=1" title="http://www.thehindu.com/opinion/columns/Chandrasekhar/the-cost-of-food-security/article4325479.ece?textsize=large&amp;test=1">http://www.thehindu.com/opinion/columns/Chandrasekhar/the-<br />cost-of-food-security/article4325479.ece?textsize=large&am<br />p;test=1</a></span></p><p style="text-align: justify; line-height: normal" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'">&nbsp;</span></p><p style="text-align: justify; line-height: normal" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'">Aadhaar-linked DBThits roadblock in East Godavari -Mohammad Ali, The Hindu, 21 January, 2013, </span></p><p style="text-align: justify; line-height: normal" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'"><a 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<div align="justify">A report by a parliamentary standing committee entrusted to examine the National Food Security Bill, 2011 has revived the debate on what measures India must take to end its abysmal track record of hunger and malnutrition, (See several links given below) despite successive years of high growth and record grain procurement. The draft legislation is likely to be debated in the upcoming session of Parliament, even as the recent Jaipur Declaration by the ruling Congress party promises to end hunger and malnutrition in India by 2020.<br /><br />The report by the committee, made up of 29 MPs across party lines, has suggested an individual entitlement of 5kg of grain per month, as opposed to the current entitlement of 35kg per family (roughly 7 kg per individual). Civil society groups have pointed out that this reduced allocation is well below required health norms, even more so for individuals engaged in hard labour, many of whom depend on the PDS.<br /><br />The committee estimates that implementing the act will cost Rs 1,09,796 crore in 2012-13, and while backing the law, expresses worries about its financial sustainability in the future, especially with population rise. Some economists have questioned this estimate, while others argue that the investment is not high given it is still below 1% of India’s GDP. The committee has also controversially suggested that states be divided into three categories as per their financial performance to determine whether they should or should not share the food subsidy bill with the centre, and to what degrees. However, the report does not suggest any parameters on which this classification can be made.<br /><br />While sidestepping the issue of high rates of child malnutrition, it has also argued that maternity benefits (of Rs 1000 a month for 6 months) to expectant mothers not be extended beyond two children. A dissent note from one of the members argues against this proposal, saying such norms and penalties on the mother and child are unfair.<br /><br />The report has also warned against the government’s bid for replacing grain entitlements with direct cash transfers till such time as the financial and banking infrastructure has not been put in place. However, it does not refer to evidence from the ground, which points not just to the roll-out of the cash transfer model, but also the fact that villagers in some instances have voiced a preference for grain over cash, while pointing to the inconvenience of accessing bank services. <br /><br />The opponents of cash transfer include Raman Singh, the Chief Minister of Chhattisgarh, a state which has over the past years introduced a host of technological and administrative measures in its PDS machinery to ensure timely grain deliveries to needy families, while also making the system universal.<br /><br />In a letter to the Prime Minister, stating that cash transfers not be introduced in Chhattisgarh, Singh wrote:<br /><br />“There are lots of problems in implementation of cash subsidy transfer under PDS. In my view, Fair Price Shops under PDS are the only viable and convenient option for access to foodgrains in rural areas in the State. Financial inclusion and availability of IT infrastructure are preconditions to any scheme of cash transfers. There are substantial problems in the State on both accounts. It would also be difficult to fix the monthly cash subsidies in view of fluctuation in market prices. The system is also vulnerable to misuse of cash subsidy amount by the male heads of the households or purchase of non PDS commodities which would defeat the very purpose for which the subsidies are proposed to be transferred.”<br /><br />The committee also reiterates the principle of caps on the population entitled to subsidised grain, as opposed to a universal PDS, as is being implemented in states like Chhattisgarh and Tamil Nadu.<br /><br /></div><div align="justify"><strong><em>Further readings: </em></strong> </div><div align="justify"> </div><div align="justify"><!--[if gte mso 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Distribution System: Lessons from Chh<br />attisgarh by Raghav Puri, Economic and Political Weekly, F<br />ebruary 4, 2012 Vol xlvIi, No. 5</a> </p><p style="text-align: justify; line-height: normal" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle"> </p><p style="text-align: justify; line-height: normal" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle"><strong><em><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'">Media reports andstudies on the costs of food security and cash transfer rollouts:</span></em></strong></p><strong><em></em></strong><p style="text-align: justify; line-height: normal" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle"><strong></strong><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'"> </span></p><p style="text-align: justify; line-height: normal" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'">Limit nutrition planto only first 2 kids: Panel -Nitin Sethi, The Times of India, 24 January, 2013,</span></p><p style="text-align: justify; line-height: 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A report by a parliamentary standing committee entrusted to examine the National Food Security Bill, 2011 has revived the debate on what measures India must take to end its abysmal track record of hunger and malnutrition, (See several links given below) despite successive years of high growth and record grain procurement. The draft legislation is likely to be debated in the upcoming session of Parliament, even as the recent Jaipur Declaration by the ruling Congress party promises to end hunger and malnutrition in India by 2020.<br />
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The report by the committee, made up of 29 MPs across party lines, has suggested an individual entitlement of 5kg of grain per month, as opposed to the current entitlement of 35kg per family (roughly 7 kg per individual). Civil society groups have pointed out that this reduced allocation is well below required health norms, even more so for individuals engaged in hard labour, many of whom depend on the PDS.<br />
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The committee estimates that implementing the act will cost Rs 1,09,796 crore in 2012-13, and while backing the law, expresses worries about its financial sustainability in the future, especially with population rise. Some economists have questioned this estimate, while others argue that the investment&nbsp; is not high given it is still below 1% of India&rsquo;s GDP. The committee has also controversially suggested that states be divided into three categories as per their financial performance to determine whether they should or should not share the food subsidy bill with the centre, and to what degrees. However, the report does not suggest any parameters on which this classification can be made.<br />
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While sidestepping the issue of high rates of child malnutrition, it has also argued that maternity benefits (of Rs 1000 a month for 6 months) to expectant mothers not be extended beyond two children. A dissent note from one of the members argues against this proposal, saying such norms and penalties on the mother and child are unfair.<br />
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The report has also warned against the government&rsquo;s bid for replacing grain entitlements with direct cash transfers till such time as the financial and banking infrastructure has not been put in place. However, it does not refer to evidence from the ground, which points not just to the roll-out of the cash transfer model, but also the fact that villagers in some instances have voiced a preference for grain over cash, while pointing to the inconvenience of accessing bank services. &nbsp;<br />
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The opponents of cash transfer include Raman Singh, the Chief Minister of Chhattisgarh, a state which has over the past years introduced a host of technological and administrative measures in its PDS machinery to ensure timely grain deliveries to needy families, while also making the system universal.<br />
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In a letter to the Prime Minister, stating that cash transfers not be introduced in Chhattisgarh, Singh wrote:<br />
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&ldquo;There are lots of problems in implementation of cash subsidy transfer under PDS. In my view, Fair Price Shops under PDS are the only viable and convenient option for access to foodgrains in rural areas in the State. Financial inclusion and availability of IT infrastructure are preconditions to any scheme of cash transfers. There are substantial problems in the State on both accounts. It would also be difficult to fix the monthly cash subsidies in view of fluctuation in market prices. The system is also vulnerable to misuse of cash subsidy amount by the male heads of the households or purchase of non PDS commodities which would defeat the very purpose for which the subsidies are proposed to be transferred.&rdquo;<br />
<br />
The committee also reiterates the principle of caps on the population entitled to subsidised grain, as opposed to a universal PDS, as is being implemented in states like Chhattisgarh and Tamil Nadu.<br />
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<span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'">National Food
Security Bill, 2011, Bill No. 132 of 2011 (as introduced in Lok Sabha)</span>
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<a href="tinymce/uploaded/National%20Food%20Security%20Bill%202011.pdf" title="National Food Security Bill 2011"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'">National Food
Security Bill, 2011, Bill No. 132 of 2011 (as introduced in Lok Sabha)</span></a>
</p>
<a href="tinymce/uploaded/National%20Food%20Security%20Bill%202011.pdf" title="National Food Security Bill 2011">
</a>
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</p>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'">Standing Committee Report
on National Food Security Bill, 2011, Twenty Seventh Report (January, 2013),
Fifteenth Lok Sabha</span>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'">&nbsp;</span>
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on National Food Security Bill, 2011, Twenty Seventh Report (January, 2013),
Fifteenth Lok Sabha</span></a>
</p>
<a href="tinymce/uploaded/Standing%20Committee%20Report%20on%20NFSB.pdf" title="Standing Committee Report on NFSB">
</a>
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</span>&nbsp;
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</a><br />
<a href="tinymce/uploaded/Kotkasim%20DSO%20report_3.pdf" title="Kotkasim DSO report">Kotkasim DSO report (Hindi and English)<br />
</a></span>
</p>
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<br />
<span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'">Chhattisgarh&rsquo;s Chief Minister&rsquo;s letter to Prime Minister on cash transfers in the PDS<br />
</span>
<a href="tinymce/uploaded/CM%20letter.pdf" title="CM letter">Chhattisgarh&rsquo;s Chief Minister&rsquo;s letter to Prime Minister on cash transfers in the PDS<br />
</a><br />
<a href="tinymce/uploaded/Cash%20Transfers%20in%20Brazil.pdf" title="Cash Transfer in Brazil">Cash Transfers: Real Lessons from Brazil</a><br />
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<a href="tinymce/uploaded/Statement%20of%20the%20RTF%20campaign%20on%20cash%20transfers.pdf" title="Statement of RTF">Statement of the Right to Food Campaign on Cash Transfer<br />
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<a href="tinymce/uploaded/Kotkasim%20Hindi.doc" title="Kotkasim Hindi">Kotkasim_Hindi Document_10 December 2012&nbsp;</a></span><a href="tinymce/uploaded/Kotkasim%20Hindi.doc" title="Kotkasim Hindi">
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Revival
of the Public Distribution System: Evidence and Explanations-Reetika
Khera, Economic and Political Weekly, 5 November, 2011 Vol xlvi no 44
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<a href="tinymce/uploaded/PDS%20chhattisgarh.pdf" title="PDS chhattisgarh">
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<a href="tinymce/uploaded/PDS%20chhattisgarh.pdf" title="PDS chhattisgarh">
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<strong><em><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'">Media reports and
studies on the costs of food security and cash transfer rollouts:</span></em></strong>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'">Limit nutrition plan
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</span>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'">&nbsp;</span>
</p>
<p style="text-align: justify; line-height: normal" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle">
<span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'">Securing Food for
All: Is It Really Difficult to Afford? -Praveen Jha and Nilachala Acharya,
Economic and Political Weekly, Vol xlviII No 4, January 26, 2013</span>
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<p style="text-align: justify; line-height: normal" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle">
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</span>
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</p>
<p style="text-align: justify; line-height: normal" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle">
<span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'">The cost of food
security, The Hindu, 20 January, 2013, <a href="http://www.thehindu.com/opinion/columns/Chandrasekhar/the-cost-of-food-security/article4325479.ece?textsize=large&amp;test=1">http://www.thehindu.com/opinion/columns/Chandrasekhar/the-cost-of-food-security/article4325479.ece?textsize=large&amp;test=1</a>
</span>
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<p style="text-align: justify; line-height: normal" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle">
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<span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'">Rice wars-Chitrangada
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A report by a parliamentary standing committee entrusted to examine the National Food Security Bill, 2011 has revived the debate on what measures India must take to end its abysmal track record of hunger and malnutrition, (See several links given...',
'disp' => '<div align="justify">A report by a parliamentary standing committee entrusted to examine the National Food Security Bill, 2011 has revived the debate on what measures India must take to end its abysmal track record of hunger and malnutrition, (See several links given below) despite successive years of high growth and record grain procurement. The draft legislation is likely to be debated in the upcoming session of Parliament, even as the recent Jaipur Declaration by the ruling Congress party promises to end hunger and malnutrition in India by 2020.<br /><br />The report by the committee, made up of 29 MPs across party lines, has suggested an individual entitlement of 5kg of grain per month, as opposed to the current entitlement of 35kg per family (roughly 7 kg per individual). Civil society groups have pointed out that this reduced allocation is well below required health norms, even more so for individuals engaged in hard labour, many of whom depend on the PDS.<br /><br />The committee estimates that implementing the act will cost Rs 1,09,796 crore in 2012-13, and while backing the law, expresses worries about its financial sustainability in the future, especially with population rise. Some economists have questioned this estimate, while others argue that the investment&nbsp; is not high given it is still below 1% of India&rsquo;s GDP. The committee has also controversially suggested that states be divided into three categories as per their financial performance to determine whether they should or should not share the food subsidy bill with the centre, and to what degrees. However, the report does not suggest any parameters on which this classification can be made.<br /><br />While sidestepping the issue of high rates of child malnutrition, it has also argued that maternity benefits (of Rs 1000 a month for 6 months) to expectant mothers not be extended beyond two children. A dissent note from one of the members argues against this proposal, saying such norms and penalties on the mother and child are unfair.<br /><br />The report has also warned against the government&rsquo;s bid for replacing grain entitlements with direct cash transfers till such time as the financial and banking infrastructure has not been put in place. However, it does not refer to evidence from the ground, which points not just to the roll-out of the cash transfer model, but also the fact that villagers in some instances have voiced a preference for grain over cash, while pointing to the inconvenience of accessing bank services. &nbsp;<br /><br />The opponents of cash transfer include Raman Singh, the Chief Minister of Chhattisgarh, a state which has over the past years introduced a host of technological and administrative measures in its PDS machinery to ensure timely grain deliveries to needy families, while also making the system universal.<br /><br />In a letter to the Prime Minister, stating that cash transfers not be introduced in Chhattisgarh, Singh wrote:<br /><br />&ldquo;There are lots of problems in implementation of cash subsidy transfer under PDS. In my view, Fair Price Shops under PDS are the only viable and convenient option for access to foodgrains in rural areas in the State. Financial inclusion and availability of IT infrastructure are preconditions to any scheme of cash transfers. There are substantial problems in the State on both accounts. It would also be difficult to fix the monthly cash subsidies in view of fluctuation in market prices. The system is also vulnerable to misuse of cash subsidy amount by the male heads of the households or purchase of non PDS commodities which would defeat the very purpose for which the subsidies are proposed to be transferred.&rdquo;<br /><br />The committee also reiterates the principle of caps on the population entitled to subsidised grain, as opposed to a universal PDS, as is being implemented in states like Chhattisgarh and Tamil Nadu.<br /><br /></div><div align="justify"><strong><em>Further readings:&nbsp;</em></strong> </div><div align="justify">&nbsp;</div><div align="justify"><!--[if gte mso 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href="https://im4change.in/siteadmin/tinymce/uploaded/National%20Food%20Security%20Bill%202011.pdf" title="National Food Security Bill 2011" title="https://im4change.in/siteadmin/tinymce/uploaded/National%20Food%20Security%20Bill%202011.pdf" title="National Food Security Bill 2011"></a><p style="text-align: justify; line-height: normal" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle">&nbsp;</p><p style="text-align: justify; line-height: normal" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'">Standing Committee Reporton National Food Security Bill, 2011, Twenty Seventh Report (January, 2013),Fifteenth Lok Sabha</span></p><p style="text-align: justify; line-height: normal" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'">&nbsp;</span></p><p style="text-align: justify; line-height: normal" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle"><a href="https://im4change.in/siteadmin/tinymce/uploaded/Standing%20Committee%20Report%20on%20NFSB.pdf" title="Standing Committee Report on NFSB" title="https://im4change.in/siteadmin/tinymce/uploaded/Standing%20Committee%20Report%20on%20NFSB.pdf" title="Standing Committee Report on NFSB">Standing Committee Reporton National Food Security Bill, 2<br />011, Twenty Seventh Report (January, 2013),Fifteenth Lok S<br />abha</a></p><a href="https://im4change.in/siteadmin/tinymce/uploaded/Standing%20Committee%20Report%20on%20NFSB.pdf" title="Standing Committee Report on NFSB" title="https://im4change.in/siteadmin/tinymce/uploaded/Standing%20Committee%20Report%20on%20NFSB.pdf" title="Standing Committee Report on NFSB"></a><p style="text-align: justify; line-height: normal" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle">&nbsp;</p><p style="text-align: justify; line-height: normal" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'">Cash Subsidy for Kerosene Pilot: Poor stand Deprived by Design?-Case of Kotkasim, Alwar, Rajasthan (part 1)<br /></span>&nbsp;</p><p 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report (Hindi and English)</a></span></p><p style="text-align: justify; line-height: normal" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle"><br /><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'">Chhattisgarh&rsquo;s Chief Minister&rsquo;s letter to Prime Minister on cash transfers in the PDS<br /></span><a href="https://im4change.in/siteadmin/tinymce/uploaded/CM%20letter.pdf" title="CM letter" title="https://im4change.in/siteadmin/tinymce/uploaded/CM%20letter.pdf" title="CM letter">Chhattisgarh&rsquo;s Chief Minister&rsquo;s letter to Prim<br />e Minister on cash transfers in the PDS</a><br /><a href="https://im4change.in/siteadmin/tinymce/uploaded/Cash%20Transfers%20in%20Brazil.pdf" title="Cash Transfer in Brazil" title="https://im4change.in/siteadmin/tinymce/uploaded/Cash%20Transfers%20in%20Brazil.pdf" title="Cash Transfer in Brazil">Cash Transfers: Real Lessons from Brazil</a><br /><br /><a href="https://im4change.in/siteadmin/tinymce/uploaded/Statement%20of%20the%20RTF%20campaign%20on%20cash%20transfers.pdf" title="Statement of RTF" title="https://im4change.in/siteadmin/tinymce/uploaded/Statement%20of%20the%20RTF%20campaign%20on%20cash%20transfers.pdf" title="Statement of RTF">Statement of the Right to Food Campaign on Cash Transfer</a><br /><a href="https://im4change.in/siteadmin/tinymce/uploaded/Kotkasim%20Hindi.doc" title="Kotkasim Hindi" title="https://im4change.in/siteadmin/tinymce/uploaded/Kotkasim%20Hindi.doc" title="Kotkasim Hindi">Kotkasim_Hindi Document_10 December 2012&nbsp;</a></span><a href="https://im4change.in/siteadmin/tinymce/uploaded/Kotkasim%20Hindi.doc" title="Kotkasim Hindi" title="https://im4change.in/siteadmin/tinymce/uploaded/Kotkasim%20Hindi.doc" title="Kotkasim Hindi"></a></p><a href="https://im4change.in/siteadmin/tinymce/uploaded/Kotkasim%20Hindi.doc" title="Kotkasim Hindi" title="https://im4change.in/siteadmin/tinymce/uploaded/Kotkasim%20Hindi.doc" title="Kotkasim Hindi"></a><p style="text-align: justify; line-height: normal" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle">&nbsp;</p><p style="text-align: justify; line-height: normal" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle">Revivalof the Public Distribution System: Evidence and Explanations-Reetika Khera, Economic and Political Weekly, 5 November, 2011 Vol xlvi no 44 &amp; 45&nbsp;</p><br /><p style="text-align: justify; line-height: normal" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle"><a href="https://im4change.in/siteadmin/tinymce/uploaded/Reetika%20PDS.pdf" title="Reetika PDS" title="https://im4change.in/siteadmin/tinymce/uploaded/Reetika%20PDS.pdf" title="Reetika PDS">Revival of the Public Distribution System: Evidence and Ex<br />planations-Reetika Khera, Economic and Political Weekly, 5<br /> November, 2011 Vol xlvi no 44 &amp; 45&nbsp;</a></p><p style="text-align: justify; line-height: normal" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle">&nbsp;</p><p style="text-align: justify; line-height: normal" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle"><a href="https://im4change.in/siteadmin/tinymce/uploaded/PDS%20chhattisgarh.pdf" title="PDS chhattisgarh" title="https://im4change.in/siteadmin/tinymce/uploaded/PDS%20chhattisgarh.pdf" title="PDS chhattisgarh"></a>Reforming the Public Distribution System: Lessons from Chhattisgarh by Raghav Puri, Economic and Political Weekly, February 4, 2012 Vol xlvIi, No. 5&nbsp;</p><p style="text-align: justify; line-height: normal" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle">&nbsp;</p><a href="https://im4change.in/siteadmin/tinymce/uploaded/Reetika%20PDS.pdf" title="Reetika PDS" title="https://im4change.in/siteadmin/tinymce/uploaded/Reetika%20PDS.pdf" title="Reetika PDS"></a><p style="text-align: justify; line-height: normal" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle"><a href="https://im4change.in/siteadmin/tinymce/uploaded/PDS%20chhattisgarh.pdf" title="PDS chhattisgarh" title="https://im4change.in/siteadmin/tinymce/uploaded/PDS%20chhattisgarh.pdf" title="PDS chhattisgarh">Reforming the Public Distribution System: Lessons from Chh<br />attisgarh by Raghav Puri, Economic and Political Weekly, F<br />ebruary 4, 2012 Vol xlvIi, No. 5</a>&nbsp;</p><p style="text-align: justify; line-height: normal" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle">&nbsp;</p><p style="text-align: justify; line-height: normal" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle"><strong><em><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'">Media reports andstudies on the costs of food security and cash transfer rollouts:</span></em></strong></p><strong><em></em></strong><p style="text-align: justify; line-height: normal" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle"><strong></strong><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'">&nbsp;</span></p><p style="text-align: justify; line-height: normal" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'">Limit nutrition planto only first 2 kids: Panel -Nitin Sethi, The Times of India, 24 January, 2013,</span></p><p style="text-align: justify; line-height: normal" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'"><a href="https://im4change.in/rural-news-update/limit-nutrition-plan-to-only-first-2-kids-panel-nitin-sethi-19052.html" title="https://im4change.in/rural-news-update/limit-nutrition-plan-to-only-first-2-kids-panel-nitin-sethi-19052.html">http://www.im4change.org/rural-news-update/limit-nutrition<br />-plan-to-only-first-2-kids-panel-nitin-sethi-19052.html</a></span></p><p style="text-align: justify; line-height: normal" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'">&nbsp;</span></p><p style="text-align: justify; line-height: normal" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'">Securing Food forAll: Is It Really Difficult to Afford? -Praveen Jha and Nilachala Acharya,Economic and Political Weekly, Vol xlviII No 4, January 26, 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title="http://india-seminar.com/2012/634.htm">http://india-seminar.com/2012/634.htm</a>&nbsp; <br /></div>',
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A report by a parliamentary standing committee entrusted to examine the National Food Security Bill, 2011 has revived the debate on what measures India must take to end its abysmal track record of hunger and malnutrition, (See several links given below) despite successive years of high growth and record grain procurement. The draft legislation is likely to be debated in the upcoming session of Parliament, even as the recent Jaipur Declaration by the ruling Congress party promises to end hunger and malnutrition in India by 2020.<br />
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The report by the committee, made up of 29 MPs across party lines, has suggested an individual entitlement of 5kg of grain per month, as opposed to the current entitlement of 35kg per family (roughly 7 kg per individual). Civil society groups have pointed out that this reduced allocation is well below required health norms, even more so for individuals engaged in hard labour, many of whom depend on the PDS.<br />
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The committee estimates that implementing the act will cost Rs 1,09,796 crore in 2012-13, and while backing the law, expresses worries about its financial sustainability in the future, especially with population rise. Some economists have questioned this estimate, while others argue that the investment&nbsp; is not high given it is still below 1% of India&rsquo;s GDP. The committee has also controversially suggested that states be divided into three categories as per their financial performance to determine whether they should or should not share the food subsidy bill with the centre, and to what degrees. However, the report does not suggest any parameters on which this classification can be made.<br />
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While sidestepping the issue of high rates of child malnutrition, it has also argued that maternity benefits (of Rs 1000 a month for 6 months) to expectant mothers not be extended beyond two children. A dissent note from one of the members argues against this proposal, saying such norms and penalties on the mother and child are unfair.<br />
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The report has also warned against the government&rsquo;s bid for replacing grain entitlements with direct cash transfers till such time as the financial and banking infrastructure has not been put in place. However, it does not refer to evidence from the ground, which points not just to the roll-out of the cash transfer model, but also the fact that villagers in some instances have voiced a preference for grain over cash, while pointing to the inconvenience of accessing bank services. &nbsp;<br />
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The opponents of cash transfer include Raman Singh, the Chief Minister of Chhattisgarh, a state which has over the past years introduced a host of technological and administrative measures in its PDS machinery to ensure timely grain deliveries to needy families, while also making the system universal.<br />
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In a letter to the Prime Minister, stating that cash transfers not be introduced in Chhattisgarh, Singh wrote:<br />
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&ldquo;There are lots of problems in implementation of cash subsidy transfer under PDS. In my view, Fair Price Shops under PDS are the only viable and convenient option for access to foodgrains in rural areas in the State. Financial inclusion and availability of IT infrastructure are preconditions to any scheme of cash transfers. There are substantial problems in the State on both accounts. It would also be difficult to fix the monthly cash subsidies in view of fluctuation in market prices. The system is also vulnerable to misuse of cash subsidy amount by the male heads of the households or purchase of non PDS commodities which would defeat the very purpose for which the subsidies are proposed to be transferred.&rdquo;<br />
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The committee also reiterates the principle of caps on the population entitled to subsidised grain, as opposed to a universal PDS, as is being implemented in states like Chhattisgarh and Tamil Nadu.<br />
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<span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'">National Food
Security Bill, 2011, Bill No. 132 of 2011 (as introduced in Lok Sabha)</span>
</p>
<span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'"></span> <br />
<p style="text-align: justify; line-height: normal" class="MsoNormalCxSpFirst">
<a href="tinymce/uploaded/National%20Food%20Security%20Bill%202011.pdf" title="National Food Security Bill 2011"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'">National Food
Security Bill, 2011, Bill No. 132 of 2011 (as introduced in Lok Sabha)</span></a>
</p>
<a href="tinymce/uploaded/National%20Food%20Security%20Bill%202011.pdf" title="National Food Security Bill 2011">
</a>
<p style="text-align: justify; line-height: normal" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle">
&nbsp;
</p>
<p style="text-align: justify; line-height: normal" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle">
<span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'">Standing Committee Report
on National Food Security Bill, 2011, Twenty Seventh Report (January, 2013),
Fifteenth Lok Sabha</span>
</p>
<p style="text-align: justify; line-height: normal" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle">
<span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'">&nbsp;</span>
</p>
<p style="text-align: justify; line-height: normal" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle">
<a href="tinymce/uploaded/Standing%20Committee%20Report%20on%20NFSB.pdf" title="Standing Committee Report on NFSB"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'">Standing Committee Report
on National Food Security Bill, 2011, Twenty Seventh Report (January, 2013),
Fifteenth Lok Sabha</span></a>
</p>
<a href="tinymce/uploaded/Standing%20Committee%20Report%20on%20NFSB.pdf" title="Standing Committee Report on NFSB">
</a>
<p style="text-align: justify; line-height: normal" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle">
&nbsp;
</p>
<p style="text-align: justify; line-height: normal" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle">
<span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'">Cash Subsidy for Kerosene Pilot: Poor stand Deprived by Design?-Case of Kotkasim, Alwar, Rajasthan (part 1)<br />
</span>&nbsp;
</p>
<p style="text-align: justify; line-height: normal" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle">
<span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'"><a href="tinymce/uploaded/Kotkasim%20DSO%20report.pdf" title="DSO report">Cash Subsidy for Kerosene Pilot: Poor stand Deprived by Design?-Case of Kotkasim, Alwar, Rajasthan (part 1)<br />
</a><br />
<a href="tinymce/uploaded/Kotkasim%20DSO%20report_2.pdf" title="Kotkasim DSO report">The Kotkasim Experiment: Field Observations<br />
</a><br />
<a href="tinymce/uploaded/Kotkasim%20DSO%20report_3.pdf" title="Kotkasim DSO report">Kotkasim DSO report (Hindi and English)<br />
</a></span>
</p>
<p style="text-align: justify; line-height: normal" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle">
<br />
<span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'">Chhattisgarh&rsquo;s Chief Minister&rsquo;s letter to Prime Minister on cash transfers in the PDS<br />
</span>
<a href="tinymce/uploaded/CM%20letter.pdf" title="CM letter">Chhattisgarh&rsquo;s Chief Minister&rsquo;s letter to Prime Minister on cash transfers in the PDS<br />
</a><br />
<a href="tinymce/uploaded/Cash%20Transfers%20in%20Brazil.pdf" title="Cash Transfer in Brazil">Cash Transfers: Real Lessons from Brazil</a><br />
<br />
<a href="tinymce/uploaded/Statement%20of%20the%20RTF%20campaign%20on%20cash%20transfers.pdf" title="Statement of RTF">Statement of the Right to Food Campaign on Cash Transfer<br />
</a><br />
<a href="tinymce/uploaded/Kotkasim%20Hindi.doc" title="Kotkasim Hindi">Kotkasim_Hindi Document_10 December 2012&nbsp;</a></span><a href="tinymce/uploaded/Kotkasim%20Hindi.doc" title="Kotkasim Hindi">
</a>
</p>
<a href="tinymce/uploaded/Kotkasim%20Hindi.doc" title="Kotkasim Hindi">
</a>
<p style="text-align: justify; line-height: normal" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle">
&nbsp;
</p>
<p style="text-align: justify; line-height: normal" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle">
Revival
of the Public Distribution System: Evidence and Explanations-Reetika
Khera, Economic and Political Weekly, 5 November, 2011 Vol xlvi no 44
&amp; 45&nbsp;
</p>
<br />
<p style="text-align: justify; line-height: normal" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle">
<a href="tinymce/uploaded/Reetika%20PDS.pdf" title="Reetika PDS">Revival of the Public Distribution System: Evidence and Explanations-Reetika Khera, Economic and Political Weekly, 5 November, 2011 Vol xlvi no 44 &amp; 45&nbsp;
</a>
</p>
<p style="text-align: justify; line-height: normal" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle">
&nbsp;
</p>
<p style="text-align: justify; line-height: normal" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle">
<a href="tinymce/uploaded/PDS%20chhattisgarh.pdf" title="PDS chhattisgarh">
</a>Reforming the Public Distribution System: Lessons from Chhattisgarh by
Raghav Puri, Economic and Political Weekly, February 4, 2012 Vol xlvIi,
No. 5&nbsp;
</p>
<p style="text-align: justify; line-height: normal" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle">
&nbsp;
</p>
<a href="tinymce/uploaded/Reetika%20PDS.pdf" title="Reetika PDS">
</a>
<p style="text-align: justify; line-height: normal" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle">
<a href="tinymce/uploaded/PDS%20chhattisgarh.pdf" title="PDS chhattisgarh">
Reforming the Public Distribution System: Lessons from Chhattisgarh by Raghav Puri, Economic and Political Weekly, February 4, 2012 Vol xlvIi, No. 5</a>&nbsp;
</p>
<p style="text-align: justify; line-height: normal" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle">
&nbsp;
</p>
<p style="text-align: justify; line-height: normal" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle">
<strong><em><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'">Media reports and
studies on the costs of food security and cash transfer rollouts:</span></em></strong>
</p>
<strong>
<em>
</em>
</strong>
<p style="text-align: justify; line-height: normal" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle">
<strong>
</strong><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'">&nbsp;</span>
</p>
<p style="text-align: justify; line-height: normal" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle">
<span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'">Limit nutrition plan
to only first 2 kids: Panel -Nitin Sethi, The Times of India, 24 January, 2013,
</span>
</p>
<p style="text-align: justify; line-height: normal" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle">
<span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'"><a href="../rural-news-update/limit-nutrition-plan-to-only-first-2-kids-panel-nitin-sethi-19052.html">http://www.im4change.org/rural-news-update/limit-nutrition-plan-to-only-first-2-kids-panel-nitin-sethi-19052.html</a>
</span>
</p>
<p style="text-align: justify; line-height: normal" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle">
<span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'">&nbsp;</span>
</p>
<p style="text-align: justify; line-height: normal" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle">
<span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'">Securing Food for
All: Is It Really Difficult to Afford? -Praveen Jha and Nilachala Acharya,
Economic and Political Weekly, Vol xlviII No 4, January 26, 2013</span>
</p>
<p style="text-align: justify; line-height: normal" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle">
<span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'"><a href="../rural-news-update/securing-food-for-all-is-it-really-difficult-to-afford-praveen-jha-and-nilachala-acharya-18970.html">http://www.im4change.org/rural-news-update/securing-food-for-all-is-it-really-difficult-to-afford-praveen-jha-and-nilachala-acharya-18970.html</a>
</span>
</p>
<p style="text-align: justify; line-height: normal" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle">
<span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'">&nbsp;</span>
</p>
<p style="text-align: justify; line-height: normal" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle">
<span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'">The cost of food
security, The Hindu, 20 January, 2013, <a href="http://www.thehindu.com/opinion/columns/Chandrasekhar/the-cost-of-food-security/article4325479.ece?textsize=large&amp;test=1">http://www.thehindu.com/opinion/columns/Chandrasekhar/the-cost-of-food-security/article4325479.ece?textsize=large&amp;test=1</a>
</span>
</p>
<p style="text-align: justify; line-height: normal" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle">
<span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'">&nbsp;</span>
</p>
<p style="text-align: justify; line-height: normal" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle">
<span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'">Aadhaar-linked DBT
hits roadblock in East Godavari -Mohammad Ali, The Hindu, 21 January, 2013, </span>
</p>
<p style="text-align: justify; line-height: normal" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle">
<span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'"><a href="../rural-news-update/aadhaar-linked-dbt-hits-roadblock-in-east-godavari-mohammad-ali-18972.html">http://www.im4change.org/rural-news-update/aadhaar-linked-dbt-hits-roadblock-in-east-godavari-mohammad-ali-18972.html</a>
</span>
</p>
<p style="text-align: justify; line-height: normal" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle">
<span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'">&nbsp;</span>
</p>
<p style="text-align: justify; line-height: normal" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle">
<span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'">Rice wars-Chitrangada
Choudhury, The Hindustan Times, 12 November, 2008, <a href="http://www.hindustantimes.com/India-news/Chhattisgarh/Rice-wars/Article1-350851.aspx">http://www.hindustantimes.com/India-news/Chhattisgarh/Rice-wars/Article1-350851.aspx</a>
</span>
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Cash in lieu of PDS: A dangerous step-Sachin Kumar Jain, Panchayatnama, 17 December-23 December, 2012&nbsp;
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ENDING HUNGER-A special issue, Seminar, June, 2012, <a href="http://india-seminar.com/2012/634.htm">http://india-seminar.com/2012/634.htm</a>&nbsp; <br />
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A report by a parliamentary standing committee entrusted to examine the National Food Security Bill, 2011 has revived the debate on what measures India must take to end its abysmal track record of hunger and malnutrition, (See several links given...'
$disp = '<div align="justify">A report by a parliamentary standing committee entrusted to examine the National Food Security Bill, 2011 has revived the debate on what measures India must take to end its abysmal track record of hunger and malnutrition, (See several links given below) despite successive years of high growth and record grain procurement. The draft legislation is likely to be debated in the upcoming session of Parliament, even as the recent Jaipur Declaration by the ruling Congress party promises to end hunger and malnutrition in India by 2020.<br /><br />The report by the committee, made up of 29 MPs across party lines, has suggested an individual entitlement of 5kg of grain per month, as opposed to the current entitlement of 35kg per family (roughly 7 kg per individual). Civil society groups have pointed out that this reduced allocation is well below required health norms, even more so for individuals engaged in hard labour, many of whom depend on the PDS.<br /><br />The committee estimates that implementing the act will cost Rs 1,09,796 crore in 2012-13, and while backing the law, expresses worries about its financial sustainability in the future, especially with population rise. Some economists have questioned this estimate, while others argue that the investment&nbsp; is not high given it is still below 1% of India&rsquo;s GDP. The committee has also controversially suggested that states be divided into three categories as per their financial performance to determine whether they should or should not share the food subsidy bill with the centre, and to what degrees. However, the report does not suggest any parameters on which this classification can be made.<br /><br />While sidestepping the issue of high rates of child malnutrition, it has also argued that maternity benefits (of Rs 1000 a month for 6 months) to expectant mothers not be extended beyond two children. A dissent note from one of the members argues against this proposal, saying such norms and penalties on the mother and child are unfair.<br /><br />The report has also warned against the government&rsquo;s bid for replacing grain entitlements with direct cash transfers till such time as the financial and banking infrastructure has not been put in place. However, it does not refer to evidence from the ground, which points not just to the roll-out of the cash transfer model, but also the fact that villagers in some instances have voiced a preference for grain over cash, while pointing to the inconvenience of accessing bank services. &nbsp;<br /><br />The opponents of cash transfer include Raman Singh, the Chief Minister of Chhattisgarh, a state which has over the past years introduced a host of technological and administrative measures in its PDS machinery to ensure timely grain deliveries to needy families, while also making the system universal.<br /><br />In a letter to the Prime Minister, stating that cash transfers not be introduced in Chhattisgarh, Singh wrote:<br /><br />&ldquo;There are lots of problems in implementation of cash subsidy transfer under PDS. In my view, Fair Price Shops under PDS are the only viable and convenient option for access to foodgrains in rural areas in the State. Financial inclusion and availability of IT infrastructure are preconditions to any scheme of cash transfers. There are substantial problems in the State on both accounts. It would also be difficult to fix the monthly cash subsidies in view of fluctuation in market prices. The system is also vulnerable to misuse of cash subsidy amount by the male heads of the households or purchase of non PDS commodities which would defeat the very purpose for which the subsidies are proposed to be transferred.&rdquo;<br /><br />The committee also reiterates the principle of caps on the population entitled to subsidised grain, as opposed to a universal PDS, as is being implemented in states like Chhattisgarh and Tamil Nadu.<br /><br /></div><div align="justify"><strong><em>Further readings:&nbsp;</em></strong> </div><div align="justify">&nbsp;</div><div align="justify"><!--[if gte mso 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href="https://im4change.in/siteadmin/tinymce/uploaded/National%20Food%20Security%20Bill%202011.pdf" title="National Food Security Bill 2011" title="https://im4change.in/siteadmin/tinymce/uploaded/National%20Food%20Security%20Bill%202011.pdf" title="National Food Security Bill 2011"></a><p style="text-align: justify; line-height: normal" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle">&nbsp;</p><p style="text-align: justify; line-height: normal" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'">Standing Committee Reporton National Food Security Bill, 2011, Twenty Seventh Report (January, 2013),Fifteenth Lok Sabha</span></p><p style="text-align: justify; line-height: normal" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'">&nbsp;</span></p><p style="text-align: justify; line-height: normal" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle"><a href="https://im4change.in/siteadmin/tinymce/uploaded/Standing%20Committee%20Report%20on%20NFSB.pdf" title="Standing Committee Report on NFSB" title="https://im4change.in/siteadmin/tinymce/uploaded/Standing%20Committee%20Report%20on%20NFSB.pdf" title="Standing Committee Report on NFSB">Standing Committee Reporton National Food Security Bill, 2<br />011, Twenty Seventh Report (January, 2013),Fifteenth Lok S<br />abha</a></p><a href="https://im4change.in/siteadmin/tinymce/uploaded/Standing%20Committee%20Report%20on%20NFSB.pdf" title="Standing Committee Report on NFSB" title="https://im4change.in/siteadmin/tinymce/uploaded/Standing%20Committee%20Report%20on%20NFSB.pdf" title="Standing Committee Report on NFSB"></a><p style="text-align: justify; line-height: normal" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle">&nbsp;</p><p style="text-align: justify; line-height: normal" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'">Cash Subsidy for Kerosene Pilot: Poor stand Deprived by Design?-Case of Kotkasim, Alwar, Rajasthan (part 1)<br /></span>&nbsp;</p><p 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report (Hindi and English)</a></span></p><p style="text-align: justify; line-height: normal" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle"><br /><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'">Chhattisgarh&rsquo;s Chief Minister&rsquo;s letter to Prime Minister on cash transfers in the PDS<br /></span><a href="https://im4change.in/siteadmin/tinymce/uploaded/CM%20letter.pdf" title="CM letter" title="https://im4change.in/siteadmin/tinymce/uploaded/CM%20letter.pdf" title="CM letter">Chhattisgarh&rsquo;s Chief Minister&rsquo;s letter to Prim<br />e Minister on cash transfers in the PDS</a><br /><a href="https://im4change.in/siteadmin/tinymce/uploaded/Cash%20Transfers%20in%20Brazil.pdf" title="Cash Transfer in Brazil" title="https://im4change.in/siteadmin/tinymce/uploaded/Cash%20Transfers%20in%20Brazil.pdf" title="Cash Transfer in Brazil">Cash Transfers: Real Lessons from Brazil</a><br /><br /><a 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title="https://im4change.in/siteadmin/tinymce/uploaded/Kotkasim%20Hindi.doc" title="Kotkasim Hindi"></a><p style="text-align: justify; line-height: normal" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle">&nbsp;</p><p style="text-align: justify; line-height: normal" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle">Revivalof the Public Distribution System: Evidence and Explanations-Reetika Khera, Economic and Political Weekly, 5 November, 2011 Vol xlvi no 44 &amp; 45&nbsp;</p><br /><p style="text-align: justify; line-height: normal" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle"><a href="https://im4change.in/siteadmin/tinymce/uploaded/Reetika%20PDS.pdf" title="Reetika PDS" title="https://im4change.in/siteadmin/tinymce/uploaded/Reetika%20PDS.pdf" title="Reetika PDS">Revival of the Public Distribution System: Evidence and Ex<br />planations-Reetika Khera, Economic and Political Weekly, 5<br /> November, 2011 Vol xlvi no 44 &amp; 45&nbsp;</a></p><p style="text-align: justify; line-height: normal" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle">&nbsp;</p><p style="text-align: justify; line-height: normal" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle"><a href="https://im4change.in/siteadmin/tinymce/uploaded/PDS%20chhattisgarh.pdf" title="PDS chhattisgarh" title="https://im4change.in/siteadmin/tinymce/uploaded/PDS%20chhattisgarh.pdf" title="PDS chhattisgarh"></a>Reforming the Public Distribution System: Lessons from Chhattisgarh by Raghav Puri, Economic and Political Weekly, February 4, 2012 Vol xlvIi, No. 5&nbsp;</p><p style="text-align: justify; line-height: normal" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle">&nbsp;</p><a href="https://im4change.in/siteadmin/tinymce/uploaded/Reetika%20PDS.pdf" title="Reetika PDS" title="https://im4change.in/siteadmin/tinymce/uploaded/Reetika%20PDS.pdf" title="Reetika PDS"></a><p style="text-align: justify; line-height: normal" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle"><a href="https://im4change.in/siteadmin/tinymce/uploaded/PDS%20chhattisgarh.pdf" title="PDS chhattisgarh" title="https://im4change.in/siteadmin/tinymce/uploaded/PDS%20chhattisgarh.pdf" title="PDS chhattisgarh">Reforming the Public Distribution System: Lessons from Chh<br />attisgarh by Raghav Puri, Economic and Political Weekly, F<br />ebruary 4, 2012 Vol xlvIi, No. 5</a>&nbsp;</p><p style="text-align: justify; line-height: normal" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle">&nbsp;</p><p style="text-align: justify; line-height: normal" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle"><strong><em><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'">Media reports andstudies on the costs of food security and cash transfer rollouts:</span></em></strong></p><strong><em></em></strong><p style="text-align: justify; line-height: normal" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle"><strong></strong><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'">&nbsp;</span></p><p style="text-align: justify; line-height: normal" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'">Limit nutrition planto only first 2 kids: Panel -Nitin Sethi, The Times of India, 24 January, 2013,</span></p><p style="text-align: justify; line-height: normal" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'"><a href="https://im4change.in/rural-news-update/limit-nutrition-plan-to-only-first-2-kids-panel-nitin-sethi-19052.html" title="https://im4change.in/rural-news-update/limit-nutrition-plan-to-only-first-2-kids-panel-nitin-sethi-19052.html">http://www.im4change.org/rural-news-update/limit-nutrition<br />-plan-to-only-first-2-kids-panel-nitin-sethi-19052.html</a></span></p><p style="text-align: justify; line-height: normal" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'">&nbsp;</span></p><p style="text-align: justify; line-height: normal" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'">Securing Food forAll: Is It Really Difficult to Afford? -Praveen Jha and Nilachala Acharya,Economic and Political Weekly, Vol xlviII No 4, January 26, 2013</span></p><p style="text-align: justify; line-height: normal" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'"><a href="https://im4change.in/rural-news-update/securing-food-for-all-is-it-really-difficult-to-afford-praveen-jha-and-nilachala-acharya-18970.html" title="https://im4change.in/rural-news-update/securing-food-for-all-is-it-really-difficult-to-afford-praveen-jha-and-nilachala-acharya-18970.html">http://www.im4change.org/rural-news-update/securing-food-f<br />or-all-is-it-really-difficult-to-afford-praveen-jha-and-ni<br />lachala-acharya-18970.html</a></span></p><p style="text-align: justify; line-height: normal" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'">&nbsp;</span></p><p style="text-align: justify; line-height: normal" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'">The cost of foodsecurity, The Hindu, 20 January, 2013, <a href="http://www.thehindu.com/opinion/columns/Chandrasekhar/the-cost-of-food-security/article4325479.ece?textsize=large&amp;test=1" title="http://www.thehindu.com/opinion/columns/Chandrasekhar/the-cost-of-food-security/article4325479.ece?textsize=large&amp;test=1">http://www.thehindu.com/opinion/columns/Chandrasekhar/the-<br />cost-of-food-security/article4325479.ece?textsize=large&am<br />p;test=1</a></span></p><p style="text-align: justify; line-height: normal" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'">&nbsp;</span></p><p style="text-align: justify; line-height: normal" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'">Aadhaar-linked DBThits roadblock in East Godavari -Mohammad Ali, The Hindu, 21 January, 2013, </span></p><p style="text-align: justify; line-height: normal" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'"><a 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<div align="justify">A report by a parliamentary standing committee entrusted to examine the National Food Security Bill, 2011 has revived the debate on what measures India must take to end its abysmal track record of hunger and malnutrition, (See several links given below) despite successive years of high growth and record grain procurement. The draft legislation is likely to be debated in the upcoming session of Parliament, even as the recent Jaipur Declaration by the ruling Congress party promises to end hunger and malnutrition in India by 2020.<br /><br />The report by the committee, made up of 29 MPs across party lines, has suggested an individual entitlement of 5kg of grain per month, as opposed to the current entitlement of 35kg per family (roughly 7 kg per individual). Civil society groups have pointed out that this reduced allocation is well below required health norms, even more so for individuals engaged in hard labour, many of whom depend on the PDS.<br /><br />The committee estimates that implementing the act will cost Rs 1,09,796 crore in 2012-13, and while backing the law, expresses worries about its financial sustainability in the future, especially with population rise. Some economists have questioned this estimate, while others argue that the investment is not high given it is still below 1% of India’s GDP. The committee has also controversially suggested that states be divided into three categories as per their financial performance to determine whether they should or should not share the food subsidy bill with the centre, and to what degrees. However, the report does not suggest any parameters on which this classification can be made.<br /><br />While sidestepping the issue of high rates of child malnutrition, it has also argued that maternity benefits (of Rs 1000 a month for 6 months) to expectant mothers not be extended beyond two children. A dissent note from one of the members argues against this proposal, saying such norms and penalties on the mother and child are unfair.<br /><br />The report has also warned against the government’s bid for replacing grain entitlements with direct cash transfers till such time as the financial and banking infrastructure has not been put in place. However, it does not refer to evidence from the ground, which points not just to the roll-out of the cash transfer model, but also the fact that villagers in some instances have voiced a preference for grain over cash, while pointing to the inconvenience of accessing bank services. <br /><br />The opponents of cash transfer include Raman Singh, the Chief Minister of Chhattisgarh, a state which has over the past years introduced a host of technological and administrative measures in its PDS machinery to ensure timely grain deliveries to needy families, while also making the system universal.<br /><br />In a letter to the Prime Minister, stating that cash transfers not be introduced in Chhattisgarh, Singh wrote:<br /><br />“There are lots of problems in implementation of cash subsidy transfer under PDS. In my view, Fair Price Shops under PDS are the only viable and convenient option for access to foodgrains in rural areas in the State. Financial inclusion and availability of IT infrastructure are preconditions to any scheme of cash transfers. There are substantial problems in the State on both accounts. It would also be difficult to fix the monthly cash subsidies in view of fluctuation in market prices. The system is also vulnerable to misuse of cash subsidy amount by the male heads of the households or purchase of non PDS commodities which would defeat the very purpose for which the subsidies are proposed to be transferred.”<br /><br />The committee also reiterates the principle of caps on the population entitled to subsidised grain, as opposed to a universal PDS, as is being implemented in states like Chhattisgarh and Tamil Nadu.<br /><br /></div><div align="justify"><strong><em>Further readings: </em></strong> </div><div align="justify"> </div><div align="justify"><!--[if gte mso 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href="https://im4change.in/siteadmin/tinymce/uploaded/National%20Food%20Security%20Bill%202011.pdf" title="National Food Security Bill 2011" title="https://im4change.in/siteadmin/tinymce/uploaded/National%20Food%20Security%20Bill%202011.pdf" title="National Food Security Bill 2011"></a><p style="text-align: justify; line-height: normal" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle"> </p><p style="text-align: justify; line-height: normal" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'">Standing Committee Reporton National Food Security Bill, 2011, Twenty Seventh Report (January, 2013),Fifteenth Lok Sabha</span></p><p style="text-align: justify; line-height: normal" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'"> </span></p><p style="text-align: justify; line-height: normal" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle"><a href="https://im4change.in/siteadmin/tinymce/uploaded/Standing%20Committee%20Report%20on%20NFSB.pdf" title="Standing Committee Report on NFSB" title="https://im4change.in/siteadmin/tinymce/uploaded/Standing%20Committee%20Report%20on%20NFSB.pdf" title="Standing Committee Report on NFSB">Standing Committee Reporton National Food Security Bill, 2<br />011, Twenty Seventh Report (January, 2013),Fifteenth Lok S<br />abha</a></p><a href="https://im4change.in/siteadmin/tinymce/uploaded/Standing%20Committee%20Report%20on%20NFSB.pdf" title="Standing Committee Report on NFSB" title="https://im4change.in/siteadmin/tinymce/uploaded/Standing%20Committee%20Report%20on%20NFSB.pdf" title="Standing Committee Report on NFSB"></a><p style="text-align: justify; line-height: normal" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle"> </p><p style="text-align: justify; line-height: normal" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'">Cash Subsidy for Kerosene Pilot: Poor stand Deprived by Design?-Case of Kotkasim, Alwar, Rajasthan (part 1)<br /></span> </p><p style="text-align: 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English)</a></span></p><p style="text-align: justify; line-height: normal" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle"><br /><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'">Chhattisgarh’s Chief Minister’s letter to Prime Minister on cash transfers in the PDS<br /></span><a href="https://im4change.in/siteadmin/tinymce/uploaded/CM%20letter.pdf" title="CM letter" title="https://im4change.in/siteadmin/tinymce/uploaded/CM%20letter.pdf" title="CM letter">Chhattisgarh’s Chief Minister’s letter to Prim<br />e Minister on cash transfers in the PDS</a><br /><a href="https://im4change.in/siteadmin/tinymce/uploaded/Cash%20Transfers%20in%20Brazil.pdf" title="Cash Transfer in Brazil" title="https://im4change.in/siteadmin/tinymce/uploaded/Cash%20Transfers%20in%20Brazil.pdf" title="Cash Transfer in Brazil">Cash Transfers: Real Lessons from Brazil</a><br /><br /><a href="https://im4change.in/siteadmin/tinymce/uploaded/Statement%20of%20the%20RTF%20campaign%20on%20cash%20transfers.pdf" title="Statement of RTF" title="https://im4change.in/siteadmin/tinymce/uploaded/Statement%20of%20the%20RTF%20campaign%20on%20cash%20transfers.pdf" title="Statement of RTF">Statement of the Right to Food Campaign on Cash Transfer</a><br /><a href="https://im4change.in/siteadmin/tinymce/uploaded/Kotkasim%20Hindi.doc" title="Kotkasim Hindi" title="https://im4change.in/siteadmin/tinymce/uploaded/Kotkasim%20Hindi.doc" title="Kotkasim Hindi">Kotkasim_Hindi Document_10 December 2012 </a></span><a href="https://im4change.in/siteadmin/tinymce/uploaded/Kotkasim%20Hindi.doc" title="Kotkasim Hindi" title="https://im4change.in/siteadmin/tinymce/uploaded/Kotkasim%20Hindi.doc" title="Kotkasim Hindi"></a></p><a href="https://im4change.in/siteadmin/tinymce/uploaded/Kotkasim%20Hindi.doc" title="Kotkasim Hindi" title="https://im4change.in/siteadmin/tinymce/uploaded/Kotkasim%20Hindi.doc" title="Kotkasim Hindi"></a><p style="text-align: justify; line-height: normal" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle"> </p><p style="text-align: justify; line-height: normal" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle">Revivalof the Public Distribution System: Evidence and Explanations-Reetika Khera, Economic and Political Weekly, 5 November, 2011 Vol xlvi no 44 & 45 </p><br /><p style="text-align: justify; line-height: normal" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle"><a href="https://im4change.in/siteadmin/tinymce/uploaded/Reetika%20PDS.pdf" title="Reetika PDS" title="https://im4change.in/siteadmin/tinymce/uploaded/Reetika%20PDS.pdf" title="Reetika PDS">Revival of the Public Distribution System: Evidence and Ex<br />planations-Reetika Khera, Economic and Political Weekly, 5<br /> November, 2011 Vol xlvi no 44 & 45 </a></p><p style="text-align: justify; line-height: normal" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle"> </p><p style="text-align: justify; line-height: normal" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle"><a href="https://im4change.in/siteadmin/tinymce/uploaded/PDS%20chhattisgarh.pdf" title="PDS chhattisgarh" title="https://im4change.in/siteadmin/tinymce/uploaded/PDS%20chhattisgarh.pdf" title="PDS chhattisgarh"></a>Reforming the Public Distribution System: Lessons from Chhattisgarh by Raghav Puri, Economic and Political Weekly, February 4, 2012 Vol xlvIi, No. 5 </p><p style="text-align: justify; line-height: normal" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle"> </p><a href="https://im4change.in/siteadmin/tinymce/uploaded/Reetika%20PDS.pdf" title="Reetika PDS" title="https://im4change.in/siteadmin/tinymce/uploaded/Reetika%20PDS.pdf" title="Reetika PDS"></a><p style="text-align: justify; line-height: normal" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle"><a href="https://im4change.in/siteadmin/tinymce/uploaded/PDS%20chhattisgarh.pdf" title="PDS chhattisgarh" title="https://im4change.in/siteadmin/tinymce/uploaded/PDS%20chhattisgarh.pdf" title="PDS chhattisgarh">Reforming the Public Distribution System: Lessons from Chh<br />attisgarh by Raghav Puri, Economic and Political Weekly, F<br />ebruary 4, 2012 Vol xlvIi, No. 5</a> </p><p style="text-align: justify; line-height: normal" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle"> </p><p style="text-align: justify; line-height: normal" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle"><strong><em><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'">Media reports andstudies on the costs of food security and cash transfer rollouts:</span></em></strong></p><strong><em></em></strong><p style="text-align: justify; line-height: normal" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle"><strong></strong><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'"> </span></p><p style="text-align: justify; line-height: normal" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'">Limit nutrition planto only first 2 kids: Panel -Nitin Sethi, The Times of India, 24 January, 2013,</span></p><p style="text-align: justify; line-height: normal" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'"><a href="https://im4change.in/rural-news-update/limit-nutrition-plan-to-only-first-2-kids-panel-nitin-sethi-19052.html" title="https://im4change.in/rural-news-update/limit-nutrition-plan-to-only-first-2-kids-panel-nitin-sethi-19052.html">http://www.im4change.org/rural-news-update/limit-nutrition<br />-plan-to-only-first-2-kids-panel-nitin-sethi-19052.html</a></span></p><p style="text-align: justify; line-height: normal" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'"> </span></p><p style="text-align: justify; line-height: normal" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'">Securing Food forAll: Is It Really Difficult to Afford? -Praveen Jha and Nilachala Acharya,Economic and Political Weekly, Vol xlviII No 4, January 26, 2013</span></p><p style="text-align: justify; line-height: normal" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'"><a href="https://im4change.in/rural-news-update/securing-food-for-all-is-it-really-difficult-to-afford-praveen-jha-and-nilachala-acharya-18970.html" title="https://im4change.in/rural-news-update/securing-food-for-all-is-it-really-difficult-to-afford-praveen-jha-and-nilachala-acharya-18970.html">http://www.im4change.org/rural-news-update/securing-food-f<br />or-all-is-it-really-difficult-to-afford-praveen-jha-and-ni<br />lachala-acharya-18970.html</a></span></p><p style="text-align: justify; line-height: normal" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'"> </span></p><p style="text-align: justify; line-height: normal" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'">The cost of foodsecurity, The Hindu, 20 January, 2013, <a href="http://www.thehindu.com/opinion/columns/Chandrasekhar/the-cost-of-food-security/article4325479.ece?textsize=large&test=1" title="http://www.thehindu.com/opinion/columns/Chandrasekhar/the-cost-of-food-security/article4325479.ece?textsize=large&test=1">http://www.thehindu.com/opinion/columns/Chandrasekhar/the-<br />cost-of-food-security/article4325479.ece?textsize=large&am<br />p;test=1</a></span></p><p style="text-align: justify; line-height: normal" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'"> </span></p><p style="text-align: justify; line-height: normal" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'">Aadhaar-linked DBThits roadblock in East Godavari -Mohammad Ali, The Hindu, 21 January, 2013, </span></p><p style="text-align: justify; line-height: normal" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'"><a href="https://im4change.in/rural-news-update/aadhaar-linked-dbt-hits-roadblock-in-east-godavari-mohammad-ali-18972.html" title="https://im4change.in/rural-news-update/aadhaar-linked-dbt-hits-roadblock-in-east-godavari-mohammad-ali-18972.html">http://www.im4change.org/rural-news-update/aadhaar-linked-<br />dbt-hits-roadblock-in-east-godavari-mohammad-ali-18972.htm<br />l</a></span></p><p style="text-align: justify; line-height: normal" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'"> </span></p><p style="text-align: justify; line-height: normal" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'">Rice wars-ChitrangadaChoudhury, The Hindustan Times, 12 November, 2008, <a href="http://www.hindustantimes.com/India-news/Chhattisgarh/Rice-wars/Article1-350851.aspx" 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A report by a parliamentary standing committee entrusted to examine the National Food Security Bill, 2011 has revived the debate on what measures India must take to end its abysmal track record of hunger and malnutrition, (See several links given below) despite successive years of high growth and record grain procurement. The draft legislation is likely to be debated in the upcoming session of Parliament, even as the recent Jaipur Declaration by the ruling Congress party promises to end hunger and malnutrition in India by 2020.<br />
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The report by the committee, made up of 29 MPs across party lines, has suggested an individual entitlement of 5kg of grain per month, as opposed to the current entitlement of 35kg per family (roughly 7 kg per individual). Civil society groups have pointed out that this reduced allocation is well below required health norms, even more so for individuals engaged in hard labour, many of whom depend on the PDS.<br />
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The committee estimates that implementing the act will cost Rs 1,09,796 crore in 2012-13, and while backing the law, expresses worries about its financial sustainability in the future, especially with population rise. Some economists have questioned this estimate, while others argue that the investment is not high given it is still below 1% of India’s GDP. The committee has also controversially suggested that states be divided into three categories as per their financial performance to determine whether they should or should not share the food subsidy bill with the centre, and to what degrees. However, the report does not suggest any parameters on which this classification can be made.<br />
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While sidestepping the issue of high rates of child malnutrition, it has also argued that maternity benefits (of Rs 1000 a month for 6 months) to expectant mothers not be extended beyond two children. A dissent note from one of the members argues against this proposal, saying such norms and penalties on the mother and child are unfair.<br />
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The report has also warned against the government’s bid for replacing grain entitlements with direct cash transfers till such time as the financial and banking infrastructure has not been put in place. However, it does not refer to evidence from the ground, which points not just to the roll-out of the cash transfer model, but also the fact that villagers in some instances have voiced a preference for grain over cash, while pointing to the inconvenience of accessing bank services. <br />
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The opponents of cash transfer include Raman Singh, the Chief Minister of Chhattisgarh, a state which has over the past years introduced a host of technological and administrative measures in its PDS machinery to ensure timely grain deliveries to needy families, while also making the system universal.<br />
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In a letter to the Prime Minister, stating that cash transfers not be introduced in Chhattisgarh, Singh wrote:<br />
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“There are lots of problems in implementation of cash subsidy transfer under PDS. In my view, Fair Price Shops under PDS are the only viable and convenient option for access to foodgrains in rural areas in the State. Financial inclusion and availability of IT infrastructure are preconditions to any scheme of cash transfers. There are substantial problems in the State on both accounts. It would also be difficult to fix the monthly cash subsidies in view of fluctuation in market prices. The system is also vulnerable to misuse of cash subsidy amount by the male heads of the households or purchase of non PDS commodities which would defeat the very purpose for which the subsidies are proposed to be transferred.”<br />
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The committee also reiterates the principle of caps on the population entitled to subsidised grain, as opposed to a universal PDS, as is being implemented in states like Chhattisgarh and Tamil Nadu.<br />
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<span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'">National Food
Security Bill, 2011, Bill No. 132 of 2011 (as introduced in Lok Sabha)</span>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'"></span> <br />
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<a href="tinymce/uploaded/National%20Food%20Security%20Bill%202011.pdf" title="National Food Security Bill 2011"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'">National Food
Security Bill, 2011, Bill No. 132 of 2011 (as introduced in Lok Sabha)</span></a>
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<a href="tinymce/uploaded/National%20Food%20Security%20Bill%202011.pdf" title="National Food Security Bill 2011">
</a>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'">Standing Committee Report
on National Food Security Bill, 2011, Twenty Seventh Report (January, 2013),
Fifteenth Lok Sabha</span>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'"> </span>
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<a href="tinymce/uploaded/Standing%20Committee%20Report%20on%20NFSB.pdf" title="Standing Committee Report on NFSB"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'">Standing Committee Report
on National Food Security Bill, 2011, Twenty Seventh Report (January, 2013),
Fifteenth Lok Sabha</span></a>
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<a href="tinymce/uploaded/Standing%20Committee%20Report%20on%20NFSB.pdf" title="Standing Committee Report on NFSB">
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<span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'">Cash Subsidy for Kerosene Pilot: Poor stand Deprived by Design?-Case of Kotkasim, Alwar, Rajasthan (part 1)<br />
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<span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'"><a href="tinymce/uploaded/Kotkasim%20DSO%20report.pdf" title="DSO report">Cash Subsidy for Kerosene Pilot: Poor stand Deprived by Design?-Case of Kotkasim, Alwar, Rajasthan (part 1)<br />
</a><br />
<a href="tinymce/uploaded/Kotkasim%20DSO%20report_2.pdf" title="Kotkasim DSO report">The Kotkasim Experiment: Field Observations<br />
</a><br />
<a href="tinymce/uploaded/Kotkasim%20DSO%20report_3.pdf" title="Kotkasim DSO report">Kotkasim DSO report (Hindi and English)<br />
</a></span>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'">Chhattisgarh’s Chief Minister’s letter to Prime Minister on cash transfers in the PDS<br />
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<a href="tinymce/uploaded/CM%20letter.pdf" title="CM letter">Chhattisgarh’s Chief Minister’s letter to Prime Minister on cash transfers in the PDS<br />
</a><br />
<a href="tinymce/uploaded/Cash%20Transfers%20in%20Brazil.pdf" title="Cash Transfer in Brazil">Cash Transfers: Real Lessons from Brazil</a><br />
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<a href="tinymce/uploaded/Statement%20of%20the%20RTF%20campaign%20on%20cash%20transfers.pdf" title="Statement of RTF">Statement of the Right to Food Campaign on Cash Transfer<br />
</a><br />
<a href="tinymce/uploaded/Kotkasim%20Hindi.doc" title="Kotkasim Hindi">Kotkasim_Hindi Document_10 December 2012 </a></span><a href="tinymce/uploaded/Kotkasim%20Hindi.doc" title="Kotkasim Hindi">
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<a href="tinymce/uploaded/Kotkasim%20Hindi.doc" title="Kotkasim Hindi">
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Revival
of the Public Distribution System: Evidence and Explanations-Reetika
Khera, Economic and Political Weekly, 5 November, 2011 Vol xlvi no 44
& 45
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<a href="tinymce/uploaded/Reetika%20PDS.pdf" title="Reetika PDS">Revival of the Public Distribution System: Evidence and Explanations-Reetika Khera, Economic and Political Weekly, 5 November, 2011 Vol xlvi no 44 & 45
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<a href="tinymce/uploaded/PDS%20chhattisgarh.pdf" title="PDS chhattisgarh">
</a>Reforming the Public Distribution System: Lessons from Chhattisgarh by
Raghav Puri, Economic and Political Weekly, February 4, 2012 Vol xlvIi,
No. 5
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<a href="tinymce/uploaded/Reetika%20PDS.pdf" title="Reetika PDS">
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<a href="tinymce/uploaded/PDS%20chhattisgarh.pdf" title="PDS chhattisgarh">
Reforming the Public Distribution System: Lessons from Chhattisgarh by Raghav Puri, Economic and Political Weekly, February 4, 2012 Vol xlvIi, No. 5</a>
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<strong><em><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'">Media reports and
studies on the costs of food security and cash transfer rollouts:</span></em></strong>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'">Limit nutrition plan
to only first 2 kids: Panel -Nitin Sethi, The Times of India, 24 January, 2013,
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<span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'"><a href="../rural-news-update/limit-nutrition-plan-to-only-first-2-kids-panel-nitin-sethi-19052.html">http://www.im4change.org/rural-news-update/limit-nutrition-plan-to-only-first-2-kids-panel-nitin-sethi-19052.html</a>
</span>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'"> </span>
</p>
<p style="text-align: justify; line-height: normal" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle">
<span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'">Securing Food for
All: Is It Really Difficult to Afford? -Praveen Jha and Nilachala Acharya,
Economic and Political Weekly, Vol xlviII No 4, January 26, 2013</span>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'"><a href="../rural-news-update/securing-food-for-all-is-it-really-difficult-to-afford-praveen-jha-and-nilachala-acharya-18970.html">http://www.im4change.org/rural-news-update/securing-food-for-all-is-it-really-difficult-to-afford-praveen-jha-and-nilachala-acharya-18970.html</a>
</span>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'"> </span>
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<p style="text-align: justify; line-height: normal" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle">
<span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'">The cost of food
security, The Hindu, 20 January, 2013, <a href="http://www.thehindu.com/opinion/columns/Chandrasekhar/the-cost-of-food-security/article4325479.ece?textsize=large&test=1">http://www.thehindu.com/opinion/columns/Chandrasekhar/the-cost-of-food-security/article4325479.ece?textsize=large&test=1</a>
</span>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'"> </span>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'">Aadhaar-linked DBT
hits roadblock in East Godavari -Mohammad Ali, The Hindu, 21 January, 2013, </span>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'"><a href="../rural-news-update/aadhaar-linked-dbt-hits-roadblock-in-east-godavari-mohammad-ali-18972.html">http://www.im4change.org/rural-news-update/aadhaar-linked-dbt-hits-roadblock-in-east-godavari-mohammad-ali-18972.html</a>
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A report by a parliamentary standing committee entrusted to examine the National Food Security Bill, 2011 has revived the debate on what measures India must take to end its abysmal track record of hunger and malnutrition, (See several links given...',
'disp' => '<div align="justify">A report by a parliamentary standing committee entrusted to examine the National Food Security Bill, 2011 has revived the debate on what measures India must take to end its abysmal track record of hunger and malnutrition, (See several links given below) despite successive years of high growth and record grain procurement. The draft legislation is likely to be debated in the upcoming session of Parliament, even as the recent Jaipur Declaration by the ruling Congress party promises to end hunger and malnutrition in India by 2020.<br /><br />The report by the committee, made up of 29 MPs across party lines, has suggested an individual entitlement of 5kg of grain per month, as opposed to the current entitlement of 35kg per family (roughly 7 kg per individual). Civil society groups have pointed out that this reduced allocation is well below required health norms, even more so for individuals engaged in hard labour, many of whom depend on the PDS.<br /><br />The committee estimates that implementing the act will cost Rs 1,09,796 crore in 2012-13, and while backing the law, expresses worries about its financial sustainability in the future, especially with population rise. Some economists have questioned this estimate, while others argue that the investment is not high given it is still below 1% of India’s GDP. The committee has also controversially suggested that states be divided into three categories as per their financial performance to determine whether they should or should not share the food subsidy bill with the centre, and to what degrees. However, the report does not suggest any parameters on which this classification can be made.<br /><br />While sidestepping the issue of high rates of child malnutrition, it has also argued that maternity benefits (of Rs 1000 a month for 6 months) to expectant mothers not be extended beyond two children. A dissent note from one of the members argues against this proposal, saying such norms and penalties on the mother and child are unfair.<br /><br />The report has also warned against the government’s bid for replacing grain entitlements with direct cash transfers till such time as the financial and banking infrastructure has not been put in place. However, it does not refer to evidence from the ground, which points not just to the roll-out of the cash transfer model, but also the fact that villagers in some instances have voiced a preference for grain over cash, while pointing to the inconvenience of accessing bank services. <br /><br />The opponents of cash transfer include Raman Singh, the Chief Minister of Chhattisgarh, a state which has over the past years introduced a host of technological and administrative measures in its PDS machinery to ensure timely grain deliveries to needy families, while also making the system universal.<br /><br />In a letter to the Prime Minister, stating that cash transfers not be introduced in Chhattisgarh, Singh wrote:<br /><br />“There are lots of problems in implementation of cash subsidy transfer under PDS. In my view, Fair Price Shops under PDS are the only viable and convenient option for access to foodgrains in rural areas in the State. Financial inclusion and availability of IT infrastructure are preconditions to any scheme of cash transfers. There are substantial problems in the State on both accounts. It would also be difficult to fix the monthly cash subsidies in view of fluctuation in market prices. The system is also vulnerable to misuse of cash subsidy amount by the male heads of the households or purchase of non PDS commodities which would defeat the very purpose for which the subsidies are proposed to be transferred.”<br /><br />The committee also reiterates the principle of caps on the population entitled to subsidised grain, as opposed to a universal PDS, as is being implemented in states like Chhattisgarh and Tamil Nadu.<br /><br /></div><div align="justify"><strong><em>Further readings: </em></strong> </div><div align="justify"> </div><div align="justify"><!--[if gte mso 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href="https://im4change.in/siteadmin/tinymce/uploaded/National%20Food%20Security%20Bill%202011.pdf" title="National Food Security Bill 2011" title="https://im4change.in/siteadmin/tinymce/uploaded/National%20Food%20Security%20Bill%202011.pdf" title="National Food Security Bill 2011"></a><p style="text-align: justify; line-height: normal" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle"> </p><p style="text-align: justify; line-height: normal" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'">Standing Committee Reporton National Food Security Bill, 2011, Twenty Seventh Report (January, 2013),Fifteenth Lok Sabha</span></p><p style="text-align: justify; line-height: normal" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'"> </span></p><p style="text-align: justify; line-height: normal" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle"><a href="https://im4change.in/siteadmin/tinymce/uploaded/Standing%20Committee%20Report%20on%20NFSB.pdf" title="Standing Committee Report on NFSB" title="https://im4change.in/siteadmin/tinymce/uploaded/Standing%20Committee%20Report%20on%20NFSB.pdf" title="Standing Committee Report on NFSB">Standing Committee Reporton National Food Security Bill, 2<br />011, Twenty Seventh Report (January, 2013),Fifteenth Lok S<br />abha</a></p><a href="https://im4change.in/siteadmin/tinymce/uploaded/Standing%20Committee%20Report%20on%20NFSB.pdf" title="Standing Committee Report on NFSB" title="https://im4change.in/siteadmin/tinymce/uploaded/Standing%20Committee%20Report%20on%20NFSB.pdf" title="Standing Committee Report on NFSB"></a><p style="text-align: justify; line-height: normal" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle"> </p><p style="text-align: justify; line-height: normal" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'">Cash Subsidy for Kerosene Pilot: Poor stand Deprived by Design?-Case of Kotkasim, Alwar, Rajasthan (part 1)<br /></span> </p><p style="text-align: 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English)</a></span></p><p style="text-align: justify; line-height: normal" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle"><br /><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'">Chhattisgarh’s Chief Minister’s letter to Prime Minister on cash transfers in the PDS<br /></span><a href="https://im4change.in/siteadmin/tinymce/uploaded/CM%20letter.pdf" title="CM letter" title="https://im4change.in/siteadmin/tinymce/uploaded/CM%20letter.pdf" title="CM letter">Chhattisgarh’s Chief Minister’s letter to Prim<br />e Minister on cash transfers in the PDS</a><br /><a href="https://im4change.in/siteadmin/tinymce/uploaded/Cash%20Transfers%20in%20Brazil.pdf" title="Cash Transfer in Brazil" title="https://im4change.in/siteadmin/tinymce/uploaded/Cash%20Transfers%20in%20Brazil.pdf" title="Cash Transfer in Brazil">Cash Transfers: Real Lessons from Brazil</a><br /><br /><a href="https://im4change.in/siteadmin/tinymce/uploaded/Statement%20of%20the%20RTF%20campaign%20on%20cash%20transfers.pdf" title="Statement of RTF" title="https://im4change.in/siteadmin/tinymce/uploaded/Statement%20of%20the%20RTF%20campaign%20on%20cash%20transfers.pdf" title="Statement of RTF">Statement of the Right to Food Campaign on Cash Transfer</a><br /><a href="https://im4change.in/siteadmin/tinymce/uploaded/Kotkasim%20Hindi.doc" title="Kotkasim Hindi" title="https://im4change.in/siteadmin/tinymce/uploaded/Kotkasim%20Hindi.doc" title="Kotkasim Hindi">Kotkasim_Hindi Document_10 December 2012 </a></span><a href="https://im4change.in/siteadmin/tinymce/uploaded/Kotkasim%20Hindi.doc" title="Kotkasim Hindi" title="https://im4change.in/siteadmin/tinymce/uploaded/Kotkasim%20Hindi.doc" title="Kotkasim Hindi"></a></p><a href="https://im4change.in/siteadmin/tinymce/uploaded/Kotkasim%20Hindi.doc" title="Kotkasim Hindi" title="https://im4change.in/siteadmin/tinymce/uploaded/Kotkasim%20Hindi.doc" title="Kotkasim Hindi"></a><p style="text-align: justify; line-height: normal" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle"> </p><p style="text-align: justify; line-height: normal" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle">Revivalof the Public Distribution System: Evidence and Explanations-Reetika Khera, Economic and Political Weekly, 5 November, 2011 Vol xlvi no 44 & 45 </p><br /><p style="text-align: justify; line-height: normal" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle"><a href="https://im4change.in/siteadmin/tinymce/uploaded/Reetika%20PDS.pdf" title="Reetika PDS" title="https://im4change.in/siteadmin/tinymce/uploaded/Reetika%20PDS.pdf" title="Reetika PDS">Revival of the Public Distribution System: Evidence and Ex<br />planations-Reetika Khera, Economic and Political Weekly, 5<br /> November, 2011 Vol xlvi no 44 & 45 </a></p><p style="text-align: justify; line-height: normal" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle"> </p><p style="text-align: justify; line-height: normal" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle"><a href="https://im4change.in/siteadmin/tinymce/uploaded/PDS%20chhattisgarh.pdf" title="PDS chhattisgarh" title="https://im4change.in/siteadmin/tinymce/uploaded/PDS%20chhattisgarh.pdf" title="PDS chhattisgarh"></a>Reforming the Public Distribution System: Lessons from Chhattisgarh by Raghav Puri, Economic and Political Weekly, February 4, 2012 Vol xlvIi, No. 5 </p><p style="text-align: justify; line-height: normal" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle"> </p><a href="https://im4change.in/siteadmin/tinymce/uploaded/Reetika%20PDS.pdf" title="Reetika PDS" title="https://im4change.in/siteadmin/tinymce/uploaded/Reetika%20PDS.pdf" title="Reetika PDS"></a><p style="text-align: justify; line-height: normal" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle"><a href="https://im4change.in/siteadmin/tinymce/uploaded/PDS%20chhattisgarh.pdf" title="PDS chhattisgarh" title="https://im4change.in/siteadmin/tinymce/uploaded/PDS%20chhattisgarh.pdf" title="PDS chhattisgarh">Reforming the Public Distribution System: Lessons from Chh<br />attisgarh by Raghav Puri, Economic and Political Weekly, F<br />ebruary 4, 2012 Vol xlvIi, No. 5</a> </p><p style="text-align: justify; line-height: normal" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle"> </p><p style="text-align: justify; line-height: normal" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle"><strong><em><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'">Media reports andstudies on the costs of food security and cash transfer rollouts:</span></em></strong></p><strong><em></em></strong><p style="text-align: justify; line-height: normal" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle"><strong></strong><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'"> </span></p><p style="text-align: justify; line-height: normal" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'">Limit nutrition planto only first 2 kids: Panel -Nitin Sethi, The Times of India, 24 January, 2013,</span></p><p style="text-align: justify; line-height: normal" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'"><a href="https://im4change.in/rural-news-update/limit-nutrition-plan-to-only-first-2-kids-panel-nitin-sethi-19052.html" title="https://im4change.in/rural-news-update/limit-nutrition-plan-to-only-first-2-kids-panel-nitin-sethi-19052.html">http://www.im4change.org/rural-news-update/limit-nutrition<br />-plan-to-only-first-2-kids-panel-nitin-sethi-19052.html</a></span></p><p style="text-align: justify; line-height: normal" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'"> </span></p><p style="text-align: justify; line-height: normal" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'">Securing Food forAll: Is It Really Difficult to Afford? -Praveen Jha and Nilachala Acharya,Economic and Political Weekly, Vol xlviII No 4, January 26, 2013</span></p><p style="text-align: justify; line-height: normal" 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href="http://www.thehindu.com/opinion/columns/Chandrasekhar/the-cost-of-food-security/article4325479.ece?textsize=large&test=1" title="http://www.thehindu.com/opinion/columns/Chandrasekhar/the-cost-of-food-security/article4325479.ece?textsize=large&test=1">http://www.thehindu.com/opinion/columns/Chandrasekhar/the-<br />cost-of-food-security/article4325479.ece?textsize=large&am<br />p;test=1</a></span></p><p style="text-align: justify; line-height: normal" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'"> </span></p><p style="text-align: justify; line-height: normal" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'">Aadhaar-linked DBThits roadblock in East Godavari -Mohammad Ali, The Hindu, 21 January, 2013, </span></p><p style="text-align: justify; line-height: normal" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'"><a href="https://im4change.in/rural-news-update/aadhaar-linked-dbt-hits-roadblock-in-east-godavari-mohammad-ali-18972.html" title="https://im4change.in/rural-news-update/aadhaar-linked-dbt-hits-roadblock-in-east-godavari-mohammad-ali-18972.html">http://www.im4change.org/rural-news-update/aadhaar-linked-<br />dbt-hits-roadblock-in-east-godavari-mohammad-ali-18972.htm<br />l</a></span></p><p style="text-align: justify; line-height: normal" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'"> </span></p><p style="text-align: justify; line-height: normal" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'">Rice wars-ChitrangadaChoudhury, The Hindustan Times, 12 November, 2008, <a href="http://www.hindustantimes.com/India-news/Chhattisgarh/Rice-wars/Article1-350851.aspx" 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A report by a parliamentary standing committee entrusted to examine the National Food Security Bill, 2011 has revived the debate on what measures India must take to end its abysmal track record of hunger and malnutrition, (See several links given below) despite successive years of high growth and record grain procurement. The draft legislation is likely to be debated in the upcoming session of Parliament, even as the recent Jaipur Declaration by the ruling Congress party promises to end hunger and malnutrition in India by 2020.<br />
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The report by the committee, made up of 29 MPs across party lines, has suggested an individual entitlement of 5kg of grain per month, as opposed to the current entitlement of 35kg per family (roughly 7 kg per individual). Civil society groups have pointed out that this reduced allocation is well below required health norms, even more so for individuals engaged in hard labour, many of whom depend on the PDS.<br />
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The committee estimates that implementing the act will cost Rs 1,09,796 crore in 2012-13, and while backing the law, expresses worries about its financial sustainability in the future, especially with population rise. Some economists have questioned this estimate, while others argue that the investment is not high given it is still below 1% of India’s GDP. The committee has also controversially suggested that states be divided into three categories as per their financial performance to determine whether they should or should not share the food subsidy bill with the centre, and to what degrees. However, the report does not suggest any parameters on which this classification can be made.<br />
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While sidestepping the issue of high rates of child malnutrition, it has also argued that maternity benefits (of Rs 1000 a month for 6 months) to expectant mothers not be extended beyond two children. A dissent note from one of the members argues against this proposal, saying such norms and penalties on the mother and child are unfair.<br />
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The report has also warned against the government’s bid for replacing grain entitlements with direct cash transfers till such time as the financial and banking infrastructure has not been put in place. However, it does not refer to evidence from the ground, which points not just to the roll-out of the cash transfer model, but also the fact that villagers in some instances have voiced a preference for grain over cash, while pointing to the inconvenience of accessing bank services. <br />
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The opponents of cash transfer include Raman Singh, the Chief Minister of Chhattisgarh, a state which has over the past years introduced a host of technological and administrative measures in its PDS machinery to ensure timely grain deliveries to needy families, while also making the system universal.<br />
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In a letter to the Prime Minister, stating that cash transfers not be introduced in Chhattisgarh, Singh wrote:<br />
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“There are lots of problems in implementation of cash subsidy transfer under PDS. In my view, Fair Price Shops under PDS are the only viable and convenient option for access to foodgrains in rural areas in the State. Financial inclusion and availability of IT infrastructure are preconditions to any scheme of cash transfers. There are substantial problems in the State on both accounts. It would also be difficult to fix the monthly cash subsidies in view of fluctuation in market prices. The system is also vulnerable to misuse of cash subsidy amount by the male heads of the households or purchase of non PDS commodities which would defeat the very purpose for which the subsidies are proposed to be transferred.”<br />
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The committee also reiterates the principle of caps on the population entitled to subsidised grain, as opposed to a universal PDS, as is being implemented in states like Chhattisgarh and Tamil Nadu.<br />
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<strong><em>Further readings: </em></strong>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'">National Food
Security Bill, 2011, Bill No. 132 of 2011 (as introduced in Lok Sabha)</span>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'"></span> <br />
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<a href="tinymce/uploaded/National%20Food%20Security%20Bill%202011.pdf" title="National Food Security Bill 2011"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'">National Food
Security Bill, 2011, Bill No. 132 of 2011 (as introduced in Lok Sabha)</span></a>
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<a href="tinymce/uploaded/National%20Food%20Security%20Bill%202011.pdf" title="National Food Security Bill 2011">
</a>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'">Standing Committee Report
on National Food Security Bill, 2011, Twenty Seventh Report (January, 2013),
Fifteenth Lok Sabha</span>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'"> </span>
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<a href="tinymce/uploaded/Standing%20Committee%20Report%20on%20NFSB.pdf" title="Standing Committee Report on NFSB"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'">Standing Committee Report
on National Food Security Bill, 2011, Twenty Seventh Report (January, 2013),
Fifteenth Lok Sabha</span></a>
</p>
<a href="tinymce/uploaded/Standing%20Committee%20Report%20on%20NFSB.pdf" title="Standing Committee Report on NFSB">
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<span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'">Cash Subsidy for Kerosene Pilot: Poor stand Deprived by Design?-Case of Kotkasim, Alwar, Rajasthan (part 1)<br />
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</a><br />
<a href="tinymce/uploaded/Kotkasim%20DSO%20report_2.pdf" title="Kotkasim DSO report">The Kotkasim Experiment: Field Observations<br />
</a><br />
<a href="tinymce/uploaded/Kotkasim%20DSO%20report_3.pdf" title="Kotkasim DSO report">Kotkasim DSO report (Hindi and English)<br />
</a></span>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'">Chhattisgarh’s Chief Minister’s letter to Prime Minister on cash transfers in the PDS<br />
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<a href="tinymce/uploaded/CM%20letter.pdf" title="CM letter">Chhattisgarh’s Chief Minister’s letter to Prime Minister on cash transfers in the PDS<br />
</a><br />
<a href="tinymce/uploaded/Cash%20Transfers%20in%20Brazil.pdf" title="Cash Transfer in Brazil">Cash Transfers: Real Lessons from Brazil</a><br />
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<a href="tinymce/uploaded/Statement%20of%20the%20RTF%20campaign%20on%20cash%20transfers.pdf" title="Statement of RTF">Statement of the Right to Food Campaign on Cash Transfer<br />
</a><br />
<a href="tinymce/uploaded/Kotkasim%20Hindi.doc" title="Kotkasim Hindi">Kotkasim_Hindi Document_10 December 2012 </a></span><a href="tinymce/uploaded/Kotkasim%20Hindi.doc" title="Kotkasim Hindi">
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<a href="tinymce/uploaded/Kotkasim%20Hindi.doc" title="Kotkasim Hindi">
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Revival
of the Public Distribution System: Evidence and Explanations-Reetika
Khera, Economic and Political Weekly, 5 November, 2011 Vol xlvi no 44
& 45
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</a>
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<a href="tinymce/uploaded/PDS%20chhattisgarh.pdf" title="PDS chhattisgarh">
</a>Reforming the Public Distribution System: Lessons from Chhattisgarh by
Raghav Puri, Economic and Political Weekly, February 4, 2012 Vol xlvIi,
No. 5
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<a href="tinymce/uploaded/Reetika%20PDS.pdf" title="Reetika PDS">
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<a href="tinymce/uploaded/PDS%20chhattisgarh.pdf" title="PDS chhattisgarh">
Reforming the Public Distribution System: Lessons from Chhattisgarh by Raghav Puri, Economic and Political Weekly, February 4, 2012 Vol xlvIi, No. 5</a>
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<strong><em><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'">Media reports and
studies on the costs of food security and cash transfer rollouts:</span></em></strong>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'">Limit nutrition plan
to only first 2 kids: Panel -Nitin Sethi, The Times of India, 24 January, 2013,
</span>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'"><a href="../rural-news-update/limit-nutrition-plan-to-only-first-2-kids-panel-nitin-sethi-19052.html">http://www.im4change.org/rural-news-update/limit-nutrition-plan-to-only-first-2-kids-panel-nitin-sethi-19052.html</a>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'"> </span>
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<p style="text-align: justify; line-height: normal" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle">
<span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'">Securing Food for
All: Is It Really Difficult to Afford? -Praveen Jha and Nilachala Acharya,
Economic and Political Weekly, Vol xlviII No 4, January 26, 2013</span>
</p>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'"><a href="../rural-news-update/securing-food-for-all-is-it-really-difficult-to-afford-praveen-jha-and-nilachala-acharya-18970.html">http://www.im4change.org/rural-news-update/securing-food-for-all-is-it-really-difficult-to-afford-praveen-jha-and-nilachala-acharya-18970.html</a>
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<p style="text-align: justify; line-height: normal" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle">
<span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'"> </span>
</p>
<p style="text-align: justify; line-height: normal" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle">
<span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'">The cost of food
security, The Hindu, 20 January, 2013, <a href="http://www.thehindu.com/opinion/columns/Chandrasekhar/the-cost-of-food-security/article4325479.ece?textsize=large&test=1">http://www.thehindu.com/opinion/columns/Chandrasekhar/the-cost-of-food-security/article4325479.ece?textsize=large&test=1</a>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'"> </span>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'">Aadhaar-linked DBT
hits roadblock in East Godavari -Mohammad Ali, The Hindu, 21 January, 2013, </span>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'"> </span>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'">Rice wars-Chitrangada
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Cash in lieu of PDS: A dangerous step-Sachin Kumar Jain, Panchayatnama, 17 December-23 December, 2012
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ENDING HUNGER-A special issue, Seminar, June, 2012, <a href="http://india-seminar.com/2012/634.htm">http://india-seminar.com/2012/634.htm</a> <br />
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A report by a parliamentary standing committee entrusted to examine the National Food Security Bill, 2011 has revived the debate on what measures India must take to end its abysmal track record of hunger and malnutrition, (See several links given...'
$disp = '<div align="justify">A report by a parliamentary standing committee entrusted to examine the National Food Security Bill, 2011 has revived the debate on what measures India must take to end its abysmal track record of hunger and malnutrition, (See several links given below) despite successive years of high growth and record grain procurement. The draft legislation is likely to be debated in the upcoming session of Parliament, even as the recent Jaipur Declaration by the ruling Congress party promises to end hunger and malnutrition in India by 2020.<br /><br />The report by the committee, made up of 29 MPs across party lines, has suggested an individual entitlement of 5kg of grain per month, as opposed to the current entitlement of 35kg per family (roughly 7 kg per individual). Civil society groups have pointed out that this reduced allocation is well below required health norms, even more so for individuals engaged in hard labour, many of whom depend on the PDS.<br /><br />The committee estimates that implementing the act will cost Rs 1,09,796 crore in 2012-13, and while backing the law, expresses worries about its financial sustainability in the future, especially with population rise. Some economists have questioned this estimate, while others argue that the investment is not high given it is still below 1% of India’s GDP. The committee has also controversially suggested that states be divided into three categories as per their financial performance to determine whether they should or should not share the food subsidy bill with the centre, and to what degrees. However, the report does not suggest any parameters on which this classification can be made.<br /><br />While sidestepping the issue of high rates of child malnutrition, it has also argued that maternity benefits (of Rs 1000 a month for 6 months) to expectant mothers not be extended beyond two children. A dissent note from one of the members argues against this proposal, saying such norms and penalties on the mother and child are unfair.<br /><br />The report has also warned against the government’s bid for replacing grain entitlements with direct cash transfers till such time as the financial and banking infrastructure has not been put in place. However, it does not refer to evidence from the ground, which points not just to the roll-out of the cash transfer model, but also the fact that villagers in some instances have voiced a preference for grain over cash, while pointing to the inconvenience of accessing bank services. <br /><br />The opponents of cash transfer include Raman Singh, the Chief Minister of Chhattisgarh, a state which has over the past years introduced a host of technological and administrative measures in its PDS machinery to ensure timely grain deliveries to needy families, while also making the system universal.<br /><br />In a letter to the Prime Minister, stating that cash transfers not be introduced in Chhattisgarh, Singh wrote:<br /><br />“There are lots of problems in implementation of cash subsidy transfer under PDS. In my view, Fair Price Shops under PDS are the only viable and convenient option for access to foodgrains in rural areas in the State. Financial inclusion and availability of IT infrastructure are preconditions to any scheme of cash transfers. There are substantial problems in the State on both accounts. It would also be difficult to fix the monthly cash subsidies in view of fluctuation in market prices. The system is also vulnerable to misuse of cash subsidy amount by the male heads of the households or purchase of non PDS commodities which would defeat the very purpose for which the subsidies are proposed to be transferred.”<br /><br />The committee also reiterates the principle of caps on the population entitled to subsidised grain, as opposed to a universal PDS, as is being implemented in states like Chhattisgarh and Tamil Nadu.<br /><br /></div><div align="justify"><strong><em>Further readings: </em></strong> </div><div align="justify"> </div><div align="justify"><!--[if gte mso 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href="https://im4change.in/siteadmin/tinymce/uploaded/National%20Food%20Security%20Bill%202011.pdf" title="National Food Security Bill 2011" title="https://im4change.in/siteadmin/tinymce/uploaded/National%20Food%20Security%20Bill%202011.pdf" title="National Food Security Bill 2011"></a><p style="text-align: justify; line-height: normal" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle"> </p><p style="text-align: justify; line-height: normal" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'">Standing Committee Reporton National Food Security Bill, 2011, Twenty Seventh Report (January, 2013),Fifteenth Lok Sabha</span></p><p style="text-align: justify; line-height: normal" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'"> </span></p><p style="text-align: justify; line-height: normal" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle"><a href="https://im4change.in/siteadmin/tinymce/uploaded/Standing%20Committee%20Report%20on%20NFSB.pdf" title="Standing Committee Report on NFSB" title="https://im4change.in/siteadmin/tinymce/uploaded/Standing%20Committee%20Report%20on%20NFSB.pdf" title="Standing Committee Report on NFSB">Standing Committee Reporton National Food Security Bill, 2<br />011, Twenty Seventh Report (January, 2013),Fifteenth Lok S<br />abha</a></p><a href="https://im4change.in/siteadmin/tinymce/uploaded/Standing%20Committee%20Report%20on%20NFSB.pdf" title="Standing Committee Report on NFSB" title="https://im4change.in/siteadmin/tinymce/uploaded/Standing%20Committee%20Report%20on%20NFSB.pdf" title="Standing Committee Report on NFSB"></a><p style="text-align: justify; line-height: normal" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle"> </p><p style="text-align: justify; line-height: normal" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'">Cash Subsidy for Kerosene Pilot: Poor stand Deprived by Design?-Case of Kotkasim, Alwar, Rajasthan (part 1)<br /></span> </p><p style="text-align: 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English)</a></span></p><p style="text-align: justify; line-height: normal" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle"><br /><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'">Chhattisgarh’s Chief Minister’s letter to Prime Minister on cash transfers in the PDS<br /></span><a href="https://im4change.in/siteadmin/tinymce/uploaded/CM%20letter.pdf" title="CM letter" title="https://im4change.in/siteadmin/tinymce/uploaded/CM%20letter.pdf" title="CM letter">Chhattisgarh’s Chief Minister’s letter to Prim<br />e Minister on cash transfers in the PDS</a><br /><a href="https://im4change.in/siteadmin/tinymce/uploaded/Cash%20Transfers%20in%20Brazil.pdf" title="Cash Transfer in Brazil" title="https://im4change.in/siteadmin/tinymce/uploaded/Cash%20Transfers%20in%20Brazil.pdf" title="Cash Transfer in Brazil">Cash Transfers: Real Lessons from Brazil</a><br /><br /><a href="https://im4change.in/siteadmin/tinymce/uploaded/Statement%20of%20the%20RTF%20campaign%20on%20cash%20transfers.pdf" title="Statement of RTF" title="https://im4change.in/siteadmin/tinymce/uploaded/Statement%20of%20the%20RTF%20campaign%20on%20cash%20transfers.pdf" title="Statement of RTF">Statement of the Right to Food Campaign on Cash Transfer</a><br /><a href="https://im4change.in/siteadmin/tinymce/uploaded/Kotkasim%20Hindi.doc" title="Kotkasim Hindi" title="https://im4change.in/siteadmin/tinymce/uploaded/Kotkasim%20Hindi.doc" title="Kotkasim Hindi">Kotkasim_Hindi Document_10 December 2012 </a></span><a href="https://im4change.in/siteadmin/tinymce/uploaded/Kotkasim%20Hindi.doc" title="Kotkasim Hindi" title="https://im4change.in/siteadmin/tinymce/uploaded/Kotkasim%20Hindi.doc" title="Kotkasim Hindi"></a></p><a href="https://im4change.in/siteadmin/tinymce/uploaded/Kotkasim%20Hindi.doc" title="Kotkasim Hindi" title="https://im4change.in/siteadmin/tinymce/uploaded/Kotkasim%20Hindi.doc" title="Kotkasim Hindi"></a><p style="text-align: justify; line-height: normal" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle"> </p><p style="text-align: justify; line-height: normal" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle">Revivalof the Public Distribution System: Evidence and Explanations-Reetika Khera, Economic and Political Weekly, 5 November, 2011 Vol xlvi no 44 & 45 </p><br /><p style="text-align: justify; line-height: normal" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle"><a href="https://im4change.in/siteadmin/tinymce/uploaded/Reetika%20PDS.pdf" title="Reetika PDS" title="https://im4change.in/siteadmin/tinymce/uploaded/Reetika%20PDS.pdf" title="Reetika PDS">Revival of the Public Distribution System: Evidence and Ex<br />planations-Reetika Khera, Economic and Political Weekly, 5<br /> November, 2011 Vol xlvi no 44 & 45 </a></p><p style="text-align: justify; line-height: normal" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle"> </p><p style="text-align: justify; line-height: normal" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle"><a href="https://im4change.in/siteadmin/tinymce/uploaded/PDS%20chhattisgarh.pdf" title="PDS chhattisgarh" title="https://im4change.in/siteadmin/tinymce/uploaded/PDS%20chhattisgarh.pdf" title="PDS chhattisgarh"></a>Reforming the Public Distribution System: Lessons from Chhattisgarh by Raghav Puri, Economic and Political Weekly, February 4, 2012 Vol xlvIi, No. 5 </p><p style="text-align: justify; line-height: normal" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle"> </p><a href="https://im4change.in/siteadmin/tinymce/uploaded/Reetika%20PDS.pdf" title="Reetika PDS" title="https://im4change.in/siteadmin/tinymce/uploaded/Reetika%20PDS.pdf" title="Reetika PDS"></a><p style="text-align: justify; line-height: normal" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle"><a href="https://im4change.in/siteadmin/tinymce/uploaded/PDS%20chhattisgarh.pdf" title="PDS chhattisgarh" title="https://im4change.in/siteadmin/tinymce/uploaded/PDS%20chhattisgarh.pdf" title="PDS chhattisgarh">Reforming the Public Distribution System: Lessons from Chh<br />attisgarh by Raghav Puri, Economic and Political Weekly, F<br />ebruary 4, 2012 Vol xlvIi, No. 5</a> </p><p style="text-align: justify; line-height: normal" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle"> </p><p style="text-align: justify; line-height: normal" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle"><strong><em><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'">Media reports andstudies on the costs of food security and cash transfer rollouts:</span></em></strong></p><strong><em></em></strong><p style="text-align: justify; line-height: normal" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle"><strong></strong><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'"> </span></p><p style="text-align: justify; line-height: normal" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'">Limit nutrition planto only first 2 kids: Panel -Nitin Sethi, The Times of India, 24 January, 2013,</span></p><p style="text-align: justify; line-height: normal" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'"><a href="https://im4change.in/rural-news-update/limit-nutrition-plan-to-only-first-2-kids-panel-nitin-sethi-19052.html" title="https://im4change.in/rural-news-update/limit-nutrition-plan-to-only-first-2-kids-panel-nitin-sethi-19052.html">http://www.im4change.org/rural-news-update/limit-nutrition<br />-plan-to-only-first-2-kids-panel-nitin-sethi-19052.html</a></span></p><p style="text-align: justify; line-height: normal" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'"> </span></p><p style="text-align: justify; line-height: normal" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'">Securing Food forAll: Is It Really Difficult to Afford? -Praveen Jha and Nilachala Acharya,Economic and Political Weekly, Vol xlviII No 4, January 26, 2013</span></p><p style="text-align: justify; line-height: normal" 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href="http://www.thehindu.com/opinion/columns/Chandrasekhar/the-cost-of-food-security/article4325479.ece?textsize=large&test=1" title="http://www.thehindu.com/opinion/columns/Chandrasekhar/the-cost-of-food-security/article4325479.ece?textsize=large&test=1">http://www.thehindu.com/opinion/columns/Chandrasekhar/the-<br />cost-of-food-security/article4325479.ece?textsize=large&am<br />p;test=1</a></span></p><p style="text-align: justify; line-height: normal" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'"> </span></p><p style="text-align: justify; line-height: normal" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'">Aadhaar-linked DBThits roadblock in East Godavari -Mohammad Ali, The Hindu, 21 January, 2013, </span></p><p style="text-align: justify; line-height: normal" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'"><a href="https://im4change.in/rural-news-update/aadhaar-linked-dbt-hits-roadblock-in-east-godavari-mohammad-ali-18972.html" title="https://im4change.in/rural-news-update/aadhaar-linked-dbt-hits-roadblock-in-east-godavari-mohammad-ali-18972.html">http://www.im4change.org/rural-news-update/aadhaar-linked-<br />dbt-hits-roadblock-in-east-godavari-mohammad-ali-18972.htm<br />l</a></span></p><p style="text-align: justify; line-height: normal" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'"> </span></p><p style="text-align: justify; line-height: normal" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'">Rice wars-ChitrangadaChoudhury, The Hindustan Times, 12 November, 2008, <a href="http://www.hindustantimes.com/India-news/Chhattisgarh/Rice-wars/Article1-350851.aspx" 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A report by a parliamentary standing committee entrusted to examine the National Food Security Bill, 2011 has revived the debate on what measures India must take to end its abysmal track record of hunger and malnutrition, (See several links given below) despite successive years of high growth and record grain procurement. The draft legislation is likely to be debated in the upcoming session of Parliament, even as the recent Jaipur Declaration by the ruling Congress party promises to end hunger and malnutrition in India by 2020.
The report by the committee, made up of 29 MPs across party lines, has suggested an individual entitlement of 5kg of grain per month, as opposed to the current entitlement of 35kg per family (roughly 7 kg per individual). Civil society groups have pointed out that this reduced allocation is well below required health norms, even more so for individuals engaged in hard labour, many of whom depend on the PDS.
The committee estimates that implementing the act will cost Rs 1,09,796 crore in 2012-13, and while backing the law, expresses worries about its financial sustainability in the future, especially with population rise. Some economists have questioned this estimate, while others argue that the investment is not high given it is still below 1% of India’s GDP. The committee has also controversially suggested that states be divided into three categories as per their financial performance to determine whether they should or should not share the food subsidy bill with the centre, and to what degrees. However, the report does not suggest any parameters on which this classification can be made.
While sidestepping the issue of high rates of child malnutrition, it has also argued that maternity benefits (of Rs 1000 a month for 6 months) to expectant mothers not be extended beyond two children. A dissent note from one of the members argues against this proposal, saying such norms and penalties on the mother and child are unfair.
The report has also warned against the government’s bid for replacing grain entitlements with direct cash transfers till such time as the financial and banking infrastructure has not been put in place. However, it does not refer to evidence from the ground, which points not just to the roll-out of the cash transfer model, but also the fact that villagers in some instances have voiced a preference for grain over cash, while pointing to the inconvenience of accessing bank services.
The opponents of cash transfer include Raman Singh, the Chief Minister of Chhattisgarh, a state which has over the past years introduced a host of technological and administrative measures in its PDS machinery to ensure timely grain deliveries to needy families, while also making the system universal.
In a letter to the Prime Minister, stating that cash transfers not be introduced in Chhattisgarh, Singh wrote:
“There are lots of problems in implementation of cash subsidy transfer under PDS. In my view, Fair Price Shops under PDS are the only viable and convenient option for access to foodgrains in rural areas in the State. Financial inclusion and availability of IT infrastructure are preconditions to any scheme of cash transfers. There are substantial problems in the State on both accounts. It would also be difficult to fix the monthly cash subsidies in view of fluctuation in market prices. The system is also vulnerable to misuse of cash subsidy amount by the male heads of the households or purchase of non PDS commodities which would defeat the very purpose for which the subsidies are proposed to be transferred.”
The committee also reiterates the principle of caps on the population entitled to subsidised grain, as opposed to a universal PDS, as is being implemented in states like Chhattisgarh and Tamil Nadu.
Further readings:
National FoodSecurity Bill, 2011, Bill No. 132 of 2011 (as introduced in Lok Sabha)
Securing Food forAll: Is It Really Difficult to Afford? -Praveen Jha and Nilachala Acharya,Economic and Political Weekly, Vol xlviII No 4, January 26, 2013
