-GRISTMedia.com In the course of my work as part of a team set up to look into the socio-economic status of Adivasi communities, there were several things I learned about the Land Acquisition Act, 2013, and the amendments to it. Here are some important questions about land and the Act that we should be asking: * What is the State's relationship to land and its citizens? This a key question - and one...
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FCI reforms: prescription to cure or kill? -Roshan Kishore
-Livemint.com The abolition of a procurement-based programme would undermine the very raison d'être of FCI rather than bringing about any restructuring The report of the high-level committee on reorienting the role and restructuring of Food Corp. of India (FCI) is a pointer to the government's thinking on matters of agriculture and food security. Among the key recommendations of the committee are: winding up of the activities of FCI in traditional procurement states;...
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-Livemint.com It is high time that India's foodgrain management is decentralized In the euphoria surrounding the enactment of the National Food Security Act (NFSA) in 2013, its champions forgot to pay attention to a key ingredient for making it successful: the state of the food supply chain in India. As in much else, the existing setup was sufficient. From the procurement system run by the Food Corporation of India (FCI) to the...
More »Revamping Food Corp: Panel wants Food Security Act changed but will BJP bite the bullet? -Seetha
-FirstPost.com In 2001, the Hyderabad-based Administrative Staff College of India (ASCI) was asked by the National Democratic Alliance (NDA) government to study the costs of acquisition and distribution of food grains by the Food Corporation of India (FCI). After making a slew of suggestions, the report's author Gautam Pingle said the report was not making recommendations on "the more serious issue - of food grain policy" because it was beyond its scope....
More »‘Food Security Act will weaken PDS’
-The Financial Express Senior BJP leader and former food minister Shanta Kumar, who headed a high-level committee on restructuring Food Corporation of India, on Thursday termed the National Food Security Act (NFSA), 2013 as ‘vote security' legislation that would lead to massive diversion of grains from the public distribution system (PDS). "Prior to the passage of the food security act, we had expressed reservation on providing highly subsidised foodgrains to 67% of...
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