The 3-1 conclusion of the POSCO panel that all clearances to the Rs 50,000-crore project be scrapped should haven’t come as a surprise to at least one person: Environment Minister Jairam Ramesh. The panel’s report now wends its way through the Ministry’s official expert committees. For, Ramesh had handpicked these members and each of the three who opposed the project has, in the past, taken clearly stated positions on infrastructure projects,...
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Food for all is food for thought
The recommendation of the National Advisory Council (NAC), that the proposed food security bill should include 75% of the population, is populist. The measure, if implemented, will entitle nearly 800 million people to some kind of subsidised food. It will drive a big hole in the budget, which finance minister Pranab Mukherjee has tried hard to rebuild after the spending excesses of 2007-09. This is not to say that the poor...
More »Steady rise in TPDS allocation because of higher production: FCI
While the National Advisory Council (NAC), Planning Commission and the Prime Minister Office are grappling over the proposed National Food security Bill, the government has been steadily increasing allocation under the Targetted Public Distribution System (TPDS) during last many years. According to Siraj Hussain, chairman and managing director, Food Corporation of India (FCI), with the rise in procurement of wheat and rice by the corporation during last few years, more and...
More »A single solution
After months of public and internal debate, the National Advisory Council (NAC) — an organisation whose clout and significance derive from the fact that Sonia Gandhi chairs it — has put forth a set of recommendations for the National Food security Act. The core recommendations are to provide legal entitlements to cereals for 75 per cent of India's population, that is, 90 per cent of the rural population and the...
More »NAC recommends food security net for 75 p.c. of population
The National Advisory Council (NAC), headed by Sonia Gandhi, on Saturday recommended to the government to grant differential legal entitlement of foodgrains to nearly 800 million people through a reformed PDS network from the next financial year. The NAC also decided to set aside the BPL criteria and suggested two broad categories — priority and general — eligible for legal foodgrain entitlement under the proposed food security law. As per the recommendations,...
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