NATIONAL ADVISORY COUNCIL: Sonia Gandhi's NAC clears Food Security Bill!

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NDTV Correspondent, Updated: June 22, 2011 18:18 IST.

New Delhi:  The National Advisory Council, which is headed by Sonia Gandhi, has finalized its draft of the Food Security Bill.  Mrs Gandhi will forward this document to the Prime Minister.  

The historic Food Security Bill entitles 75% of India to highly-subsidized foodgrains.

The Bill says  two types of households are eligible for discounted grain - "priority households" which are below the poverty line (BPL); and "general households" which consist of Lower Middle Class families.

I leave it the best judgement of the experts but, what I feel is, India also needs, very badly, 'National Water Security Act.' - both for potable & domestic usage as well as irrigation purpose;  what needs to be done is to 'water conservation measures' as a national cultural practice!

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SHAME OF INDIA: ‘Number of hungry people in India rose by 65 mn between 1990-2005’!

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PTI / The Hindu.

Oxfam research forecasts that average international prices of key staples, such as maize, will increase by between 120 and 180 per cent by 2030, with up to half of this increase due to climate change - AP.

The number of hungry people in India has increased by 65 million — more than the population of France — because economic development excluded the rural poor, and welfare programmes failed to reach them, according to charity organisation Oxfam.

In a report titled ‘Growing a better future’, it said today that India’s economy doubled in size from 1990 to 2005, but the number of hungry in the country had risen by 65 million during the period.

Oxfam also warned that average prices of staple crops will more than double in 20 years if urgent action is not taken to change the international food system, which is already failing to feed nearly a billion people a day.

National Food Security is something our successive governments have been failing to give to its citizens, while they need Supreme Court to tell to giveaway the procured grains to the hungry rather than allowing them to rot.

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