-The Telegraph The Supreme Court has said it wants to end judicial monitoring of social welfare schemes, saying the task should be left to experts and courts “can’t be setting economic policy”. The court had earlier taken umbrage at the government for fixing the poverty line at a measly Rs 32 per day per person in urban areas and suggested free distribution of foodgrain, causing consternation in the government which felt that...
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Start Mechanism to Root Out Graft in PDS: SC to Centre
-PTI The Supreme Court today asked the Centre to put in place proper vigilance mechanism to track corruption and leakage of foodgrains in public distribution system. A bench headed by Justice T S Thakur asked the government to file its reply how it intends to check the continuing ills in the implementation of PDS. It said that it will pass order if the government fails to put in place vigilance mechanism. "If you...
More »Food security, Plan Z -Jean Drèze
-The Hindustan Times Under the cover of endorsing a proposal for the National Food Security Bill framed by an independent group of development economists, the government is all set to empty the Bill of any substance. Provisions relating to the Public Distribution System (PDS) will be reduced to a pointless reshuffling of existing foodgrain allocations to state governments, that too in favour of the richer states. And other entitlements, relating for...
More »CPI Demands Changes in Food Security Bill
-PTI Lashing at UPA government for coming out with "lopsided" food security bill, CPI today said the policy of Above Poverty Line (APL) and Below Poverty Line (BPL) should be done away with and every citizens should be given equal priced foodgrains. "We are protesting against the central government for coming up with a lopsided food security bill. CPI opposes such a bill," CPI Secretary, Jammu Regional Council, Dr G S Charak...
More »Switch from farm subsidy to farm investment-Ashok Gulati
-The Economic Times With a weak monsoon, farmers and farm labour, agri-investors and policy makers, everyone is looking up in the sky and praying for more water to pour. Farm analysts are debating whether this will lead to a drop of 16 million tonnes of foodgrain, as it happened in 2009, or 38 million tonnes, as it did in 2002. NCAER is projecting 20 million tonnes drop in grain production in...
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