With more than 400 million Indians going to bed hungry each day, Food Security has become a crucial issue. On June 4 last year, the president made an announcement: “My government proposes to enact a new law — the National Food Security Act — that will provide statutory basis for a framework which assures Food Security for all. Every family below the poverty line in rural as well as urban...
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Assam to be part of second Green Revolution by Sushanta Talukdar
The Ministry of Agriculture has finally included Assam in the list of eastern States to be covered by the second Green Revolution. State Agriculture Minister Pramila Rani Brahma told journalists that Union Agriculture Minister Sharad Pawar has informed Chief Minister Tarun Gogoi that Assam was also made a part of the initiative. Ms. Brahma said Assam was initially not included in the list. Mr. Gogoi had written a letter to Mr. Pawar...
More »Future value of land in note to Sonia panel by Radhika Ramaseshan
The Sonia Gandhi-headed National Advisory Council is getting ready with its version of what the proposed land acquisition law and the accompanying rehabilitation and resettlement law should be. The bills are scheduled to be introduced in the winter session of Parliament after Prime Minister Manmohan Singh’s assurance to Rahul Gandhi. A note drafted by advisory council member N.C. Saxena, which was handed over to panel members when they last met in August,...
More »Rotting Foodgrains in Asia: The Case Of India And The Philippines by Arpita Mathur
A common incidence of rotting food grains has been reported in India and the Philippines even as millions are starving. The problem has to be tackled with dexterity at both the domestic and regional levels to curb this alarming wastage of food that contributes to food insecurity at large. RECENT NEWS reports from the Philippines and India interestingly surfaced with one common problem -- rotting food grains in both countries, even...
More »Plan panel against PDS for all, to propose differential pricing by Nistula Hebbar
To avoid a big burden on the exchequer from the proposed Food Security law, the Planning Commission will propose some key changes to the plan, including a virtual abandonment of the concept of universal public distribution system (PDS) endorsed by the Sonia Gandhi-led National Advisory Council (NAC). Commission deputy chairman Montek Singh Ahluwalia in a presentation to Gandhi later this week would suggest that under the proposed scheme, grain be...
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