-PTI New Delhi: Centre has asked states to set up vigilance committees to ensure transparency in supply of food grains through ration shops under the Public Distribution System (PDS). "States have been requested to set up vigilance committees at district, block and FPS level with due representation of SCs/STs, women and local bodies to ensure transparency and proper functioning of Targeted Public Distribution System (TPDS)," Paswan said in a Food Ministry statement. Chairing...
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Food security in India: The Imperative and Its Challenges -Sudha Narayanan
-Asia & the Pacific Policy Studies This article addresses the imperative of food security in India in the context of persistent prevalence of malnutrition despite several years of rapid growth. In particular, the article posits that the recent promulgation of the National Food security Act in September 2014 to meet this challenge also offers an opportunity to reconfigure its food distribution system and agricultural trade policy. These two issues pose the...
More »A flawed approach to food security -Deepankar Basu & Debarshi Das
-The Hindu With India continuing to be plagued by malnutrition, it is foolhardy to use the changed food production situation in the domestic economy as a reason for dismantling the FCI Within months of assuming office, the BJP-led National Democratic Alliance government set up a High Level Committee (HLC) in August 2014 to restructure, reorient and reform the Food Corporation of India (FCI). The eight-member HLC was chaired by senior BJP leader,...
More »Sweeping away India’s social security -Swati Narayan
-LiveMint.com Under the Modi government there have been unprecedented attacks across the spectrum of social security rights With a broom in hand, the Narendra Modi government has been quietly carrying out sweeping changes. Away from the photo ops of the Swachh Bharat Abhiyan, there has been unprecedented watering down of social security rights. Apart from the severe cuts expected in the next budget, three big-ticket assaults are underway-on the rights to land,...
More »Not measure for measure -Uday Balakrishnan
-The Hindu With a plethora of government departments and international organisations putting out so much statistical data in the public space, often contradicting one another, it is the government's duty to clear the air with up-to-date and coherent statistical data linking social and economic indicators Purchasing Power Parity or PPP has validated a long held surmise that the poorer countries are not as badly off as they are made out to be...
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