One of the first issues the reconstituted National Advisory Council (NAC) will have to deal with is the proposed National Food Security Act (NFSA). Given the inability of the government to control food prices that remain unacceptably high and the scant regard the ruling United Progressive Alliance has shown for food security, it should be taken up on an urgent basis if the government is to preserve its credibility among...
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MP first state in the country to push for food security for the poor
The recent allegations made are uncalled for and can be seen as an attempt by bidders disqualified due to not fulfilling the tender requirements. Companies like Glodyne who have been crying foul did not even have an ISO certification to bid for the project and have failed miserably in states like Bihar to execute projects of nation building NREGA it took on. Other players included TCS and Aditya Birla Group...
More »UPA blinks, paves way for food security law by Anil Padmanabhan & Sangeeta Singh
Bowing to pressure from the political leadership of the Congress, the government will consider making food security universal, but at a higher price for the rich. Food security was an electoral promise of the Congress before the 2009 polls, but the initial draft of the Bill said that it would apply only to the poor. After Congress president Sonia Gandhi refused to accept the Bill in that form, an empowered group...
More »'Raise PDS grain price for APL population' by Gargi Parsai
The government may shift to per capita allocation of foodgrains and raise the price of wheat and rice meant for the Above the Poverty Line (APL) population under the Public Distribution System (PDS) to meet the objectives of the proposed National Food Security Bill. Raising the price of APL foodgrains is an “unavoidable adjustment,” the Planning Commission has said in a note it has prepared for the Sonia Gandhi-headed National...
More »CWG expenditure would have wiped out Naxal menace, says Aiyer by Renu Mittal
Senior Congress leader and former sports minister Mani Shanker Aiyer has slammed the current United Progressive Alliance government under Dr Manmohan Singh for the huge amount of 'wasteful expenditure' being incurred on the Commonwealth games, saying that if a part of this money had been spent on the Bhopal Gas victims it would have brought the affected 'some relief'. The outspoken Aiyer, who was recently nominated to the Rajya Sabha, has...
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