-The Financial Express Food Security Bill will raise the subsidy burden by 18%. The debate should be about the rise in costs of households due to leakages in PDS and price hike of other nutritious food items, and how these costs can be minimised by DBT In a recent article, Surjit Bhalla ("Manmonia's FSB: 3% of GDP", July 6, Financial Express-http://goo.gl/qoIbd3) has asserted that the Food Security Bill will cost 3% of...
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Meanwhile, CM distributes food security benefits
-The Indian Express New Delhi: The distribution of foodgrain under the Food Security Programme formally began in Delhi on Sunday with Chief Minister Sheila Dikshit handing over subsidised foodgrain to women heads of eligible families. All the areas where Dikshit distributed foodgrain fall under the New Delhi constituency, which she represents. The scheme was launched in the city on August 20 by UPA chairperson Sonia Gandhi. At the launch, Dikshit had said...
More »Food Bill will help over 80 per cent coverage in Jharkhand villages-Anumeha Yadav
-The Hindu State's share of subsidised foodgrains will increase by 68 per cent; Centre will bear an additional subsidy of Rs. 595 crore Ranchi: On June 14, at Manika in Latehar, 180 km from Ranchi, more than 300 men and women stood in the pouring monsoon rain to record their testimonies about the functioning of public schemes in their villages as district officials listened at a public hearing organised by the Gram...
More »Talk about food - The coming battle over beneficiaries -Nitin Sethi
-The Hindu If the UPA believes it possesses one flagship that can help it sail through the electoral battle in 2014, it has to be the National Food Security Bill. The Congress's political messaging is certain to be built on its parenthood for a scheme that promises a nationwide legal right to food and nutrition for large numbers. But its hope of deriving political mileage from this law would be pitted against States...
More »India’s population at 123 crore as of March 2012: Shukla
-PTI India's population was estimated at 123 crore as of March 1, 2012, while as many as 27 crore people lived below the poverty line in 2011-12, Minister of State for Planning Rajeev Shukla said in a written reply to Rajya Sabha on Thursday. He said, as per the Population Census of 2011 conducted by the Office of Registrar General of India, the population in the country was estimated at 121 crore...
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