A parliamentary standing committee has recently asked the government to introduce the national food security Bill in the winter session of the Lok Sabha. A promise to implement a Bill of this kind was first mooted in President Pratibha Patil's inaugural speech last year when she mentioned the government's intention to provide each family below the poverty line (BPL) with 25 kg of foodgrains a month at Rs 3 per...
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CPI-M Demands Universal Coverage Under PDS
Expressing concern at a large quantity of foodgrains rotting in the FCI godowns across the country, the CPI-M today demanded universal coverage of the people under the Public Distribution System (PDS) for proper utilisation of available food stocks. The government should consider universal coverage of the people under the PDS by dilution the criterian of APL or BPL for not only full utilisation of available foodgrains, but also to rein in...
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Bandicoots eat up over 50 lakh tonnes in FCI godowns, says BJP BJP delegation, led by party national secretary K. Laxman, visit godowns at Vanagapally State not releasing foodgrains as it wants middlemen to benefit: Laxman Bandicoots have eaten up over 50 lakh tonnes of foodgrains stored in the godowns of the Food Corporation of India (FCI), according to the revelations of a BJP delegation, led by party national secretary K. Laxman, that...
More »Food economy’s persistent rot by Himanshu
It is not every day that we have more than 60 million tonnes of foodgrain in our granaries. It must be an achievement, considering we were living literally from ship to mouth even in the 1960s. Unfortunately, what could have been a matter of pride has turned out to be a national shame, that too the second time in this decade (the first was in 2001). As Karl Marx said,...
More »Can't implement Supreme Court order on foodgrain: Sharad Pawar
Union Agriculture Minister Sharad Pawar has responded to Supreme Court's recommendations of distributing grains to the poor for free instead of letting them rot. "It's not possible to implement the Supreme Court's order," the minister said. On August 13, the apex court had asked the Centre to consider free distribution of foodgrain to the hungry poor of the country instead of allowing it to rot in Food Corporation of India...
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