The framework for food security, cleared by the Sonia Gandhi-led National Advisory Council on Saturday, if implemented, will entail an additional expenditure of Rs.15,137 crore annually in the first phase. It is slated to kick off next year and will cost Rs. 23,231 crore annually when the entire population is covered by March 2014. Assuming an offtake of 85-90 per cent, the procurement will have to go up from 55 million...
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NAC-govt divide surfaces at think tank's meet by Nitin Sethi
The rift between the National Advisory Council (NAC) members and the government, especially the Planning Commission and the PMO, came out in the open on Saturday with Jean Dreze dissenting against the pruning of the think tank's earlier proposals on National Food Security Bill. The simmering anger among members of the council, who have also spearheaded the Right-to-Food campaign, had been palpable over the past four months with the government wanting...
More »Abolish manual scavenging by 2012-end, urges NAC
Expressing 'deep distress' over the 'shameful practice of manual scavenging' in the country, the National Advisory Council, headed by Congress chief Sonia Gandhi, Saturday asked the government to 'fully abolish' it by the end of 2012. It observed that despite the practice of employing scavengers being declared an offence, no one has been punished for it. The issue is seen as 'an issue of sanitation than of issue of human dignity,'...
More »NAC's compromise proposes wider food security coverage by Smita Gupta
The National Advisory Council (NAC) — which has been working hard over the last month to try and narrow down its differences with the Planning Commission and the government on the contentious issue of food security — is meeting here on Saturday to look at an amended proposal. The NAC's food hardliners have finally accepted, after several informal interactions with the Commission and government representatives, that universalisation of food security...
More »NAC focus back on job scheme, asks rural ministry for details by Ruhi Tewari
Along with the proposed food security legislation and the communal violence Bill that have been its focus until now, the reconstituted National Advisory Council (NAC) is beginning to focus again on the government’s marquee rural job guarantee scheme as well. The ministry of rural development has been told to make a presentation on the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (MGNREGA) to a working group of the NAC on Friday,...
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