-Outlook A parsing of the recent expert report on Food security reveals that most of its solutions do not meet the greater public good. The BJP's election manifesto had stated "that ‘universal Food security' is integral to national security. BJP will take steps to ensure that the benefits of the scheme reach the common man and that the right to Food does not remain an act on paper or a political...
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Modi government's doublespeak on Food security is a recipe for chaos and corruption -Jean Drèze
-Scroll.in The strongest safeguard against fraud is not end-to-end computerisation but clarity of entitlements: if people know what is due to them, they will fight for it. In a stunning admission of party hypocrisy, former Food Minister Shanta Kumar recently stated that the Bharatiya Janata Party's support for the National Food Security Act last year was just a pretence. Remember, when the act was being discussed in Parliament, BJP leaders (from Narendra...
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-The Hindu The Shanta Kumar Committee's recommendations to unbundle the Food Corporation of India are in tune with U.S.-led demands raised in the World Trade Organization The Shanta Kumar Committee report, released last week, on a range of issues relating to procurement, storage and distribution of Food grains is not only deeply flawed in its reading of the situation on Food security, but also short on facts. It was prepared under the...
More »Reject Shanta Kumar panel’s proposal to cut Food security coverage, say social activists
-The Hindu Business Line New Delhi: Flaying the Shanta Kumar panel's recommendations to reduce coverage of subsidised foodgrains from 67 per cent of the population to 40 per cent, Food rights activists have urged the Modi government to reject the report, as it would mean going back on the BJP's election promises. The panel, headed by BJP MP Shanta Kumar, was constituted to recommend the restructuring the Food Corporation of India....
More »India, US disagree over Food security
-PTI GENEVA: Disagreements flared up between the US and India here today at the first informal meeting to find a permanent solution on public stockholding for Food security in developing countries. The G-33 countries led by India and including China want public stockholding for Food security purposes to come under the "Green Box" -- domestic support for agriculture that causes minimal or no trade distortion. Please click here to read more. ...
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