Food Security Bill - A poll gimmick or anti hunger action plan.
Food Security Bill - A poll gimmick or anti hunger action plan. The National Food Security Bill, 2013 was passed and ratified by both the houses of the parliament. The bill envisages ensuring food security to 67% of the Indian population, excluding 50% in urban area and 25% in rural areas.The Food Security Bill of India: Highlights, Benefits, Implementation and Key Issues! After the rural job guarantee programme, the government is now focusing on an ambitious National Food Security Act aimed at drawing more people into the food security net.Summary of the National Food Security Bill 2013 (revised version, as tabled in Parliament, 22 March 2013) 1. Preliminaries The Bill seeks “to provide for food and nutritional security in human life cycle approach, by ensuring access to adequate quantity of quality food at affordable prices to people to live a life with dignity and for matters connected therwith and incidental thereto”.
The National Food Security Bill was passed by the parliament in 2013. As per the provisions of the Bill, it is proposed to provide 7 kg. food grains per person per month belonging to priority.Food security is defined by access to sufficient and affordable food; it can relate to a single household or to the global population. The first Millennium Development Goal (MDG) falls short of food security aspirations in seeking only to reduce by half the proportion of the world’s population experiencing hunger.
Food Insecurity is a phrase used to describe when an area or demographic is unable to receive a certain type of food or have reduce quality of specific food sources. Symptoms in food insecurity can be characterized in several different ways, a study done on households in areas considered high risk for food insecurity run out of food before they.
