-The Business Standard Haryana's Bhupinder Singh Hooda was the other CM to say the state would be ready to roll out the scheme from August 20 Within days of promulgating the food security Ordinance, the Congress on Saturday got into the act of ensuring "speedy implementation" of the scheme in the party-ruled states. Thirteen party chief ministers discussed nuances of the Ordinance with party president Sonia Gandhi on Saturday. The party is...
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Errant officials well-protected in UPA's game-changer food bill -Chetan Chauhan
-The Hindustan Times The UPA's new game-changer, the food security bill, provides for lesser penalty for errant officials than the watershed Right To Information Act and a tedious process for booking them. The RTI Act had provided for a maximum penalty of Rs. 25,000 against any official denying information to an applicant. The government has adopted a minimal approach by prescribing just Rs. 5,000 penalty for officials, who fail to provide subsidised...
More »3.3 lakh families, 3.5 lakh ration cards in Kolar district
-The Hindu Department has received 19,000 applications for new cards Kolar (Karnataka): Kolar district has 3,30,990 families eligible for ration cards but the number of ration cards issued in the district stands at 3,58,284 - a clear pointer to the large number of bogus cards under the Public Distribution System. This came to light at a review meeting chaired by Minister of State for Food, Civil Supplies and Consumer Affairs Dinesh Gundu Rao...
More »When friends and foes are all the same-MK Venu
-The Hindu The hostility to the UPA's food security Bill from both its allies and the Opposition stems not from substantial objections to the draft law itself but from other political grouses The decision to bring an ordinance to provide food security to 67 per cent of the country's population was received with much hostility by the Opposition parties last week. The latter seemed surprised that the United Progressive Alliance (UPA) could...
More »Food Security Bill a game-changer?-NC Saxena
-The Business Standard Food insecurity and hunger are rooted in bad policies, faulty design, poor governance and a lack of political will According to the latest Global Hunger Report, India continues to be in the category of those nations where hunger is "alarming". What is worse, despite high growth, the hunger index in India between 1996 and 2011 has gone up from 22.9 to 23.7. National Sample Survey Organisation data show that...
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