For implementing food security Act Constitution of a Sate Food Security Mission and district-level grievance redressal mechanism have been mooted for the effective implementation of the National Food Security Act. The proposed mission will have an advisory role, mainly to advise the government and its agencies, autonomous bodies, and non-governmental agencies involved in the delivery of services for effective implementation of food and nutrition-related schemes and also to enable individuals to...

For implementing food security Act Constitution of a Sate Food Security Mission and district-level grievance redressal mechanism have been mooted for the effective implementation of the National Food Security Act. The proposed mission will have an advisory role, mainly to advise the government and its agencies, autonomous bodies, and non-governmental agencies involved in the delivery of services for effective implementation of food and nutrition-related schemes and also to enable individuals to...

-The Times of India   A couple of days back, Prime MinisterManmohan Singh was promised a rose by anti-corruption crusader Anna Hazare in the event of a strong Lokpal Bill. At this moment, however, its the thorns in that rose which stand out. Confrontation is looming over the current shape of the Bill, which is likely to retain administrative government control over the CBI. Anna has reverted swiftly to agitation mode, declaring...

Union Minister for Rural Development Jairam Ramesh, in an article on left-wing extremism (“From Tirupati to Pashupati?” The Hindu , October 14, 2011), observed candidly: “It is not the naxals who have created the ground conditions ripe for their ideology — it is the singular failure of successive governments both in the States and the Centre.” There lay the main cause of the festering sore of naxalism, often characterised as left-wing...

-Express News Service The government will introduce the Citizens’ Charter Bill in the Lok Sabha on Tuesday, Parliamentary Affairs Minister Pawan Kumar Bansal said on Monday. Once introduced, the legislation, called The Right of Citizens for Time-Bound Delivery of Goods and Services and Their Redressal, will be referred to the Parliamentary Standing Committee. The move for a separate Bill dealing with the issues covered under the Citizens’ Charter of Team Anna had been...