-The Guardian A landmark bill to make the right to food a legal entitlement is mired in controversy over its failure to address a flawed public food distribution system, misplaced priorities and exclusions India has an over abundance of food grains stocked in warehouses, yet millions of India's poor are left without food. Development practitioners and NGOs are in favour of disbanding the current food security system, the public distribution system (PDS),...
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Malnutrition related death toll in Attapadi touches 54 -Laxmi Ajai Prasanna
-The Times of India THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: As the death toll touches 54 in Attapadi, a tribal hamlet in Palakkad, with one more infant succumbing to malnutrition on Saturday, advisor to the Prime Minister, TKA Nair, along with Kudumbasree officials who are on a two-day visit to Attappadi are set to issue a set of recommendations to revive the area. "There is no dearth of funds, yet the condition of the women and children...
More »CMs puzzled over implementation of food security programme-Anita Katyal
-Rediff.com While the Delhi and Haryana governments have declared that they are all set to roll-out the food security programme on August 20 -- Rajiv Gandhi's birth anniversary -- there is confusion among the chief ministers about the implementation of the ordinance which gives the right to people to receive adequate quantity of food grains at affordable prices. Anita Katyal reports. Although the ordinance has provided broad parameters that 75 per cent...
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 »BRAI Bill criminalising opposition to GM food: NGO
-PTI VADODARA: A Gujarat-based NGO has alleged that the Biotechnology Regulatory Authority of India (BRAI) Bill introduced in the Parliament aims at "criminalising" opposition to the genetically modified (GM) food. Suman Sahai, who leads the 'Gene Campaign', an organisation, said that according to this "draconian bill", those creating hurdles in the campaign against the GM food, can get three months of imprisonment and a fine of Rs 5 lakh. He was speaking at...
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