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by Neha Swaminathan | 23-09-2013 04:19
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India has enacted a new law – National Food Security Bill, 2013 which makes food a legal right to everybody. The plan is estimated to cover almost 800 million people by providing a kilo of rice at three rupees, wheat at two rupees and millet at one rupee. If successfully implemented, 800 millions of people below the poverty line including malnourished children will benefit. Children 6 months to 14 years of age are to receive free hot meals or as rations. There is a lot of noise about meeting the cost of this bill – a huge sum of 20 billion dollars. The lower house of parliament passed the bill last month followed by the upper house. The President approved it into law on 12 Sep 2013. While there are people supporting the bill for securing the right to food for the poor, there are people criticizing the government that it has tried to make this law with a view to get the poor people?s votes in the next year?s elections. While the lawmakers are fighting how to meet the costs and to ensure the system works smoothly to ensure the benefits really reach the poor people, not many are focusing the need to have a Food Waste Reduction bill. While the poor struggle to buy the food, there are many wealthy people wasting the purchased food without realizing they are ?stealing? the right of the poor people to have a decent food intake for their survival. If food waste can be reduced, food prices will reduce apart from reducing the Global warming.
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9 Comments
good reporting on food security
Posted 28-12-2013 00:48
Thanks for the report...!
Posted 29-09-2013 22:18
@Arushi You are right. Black market dealing is always followed by price ceiling policies.
Posted 26-09-2013 09:11
Thanks Neha . The food security bill is very good aiming to provide long term sustainable food and nutritional security for the poor— but it should be properly implemented in the sense there should not be any leakages in the distribution system , food should actually reach the right people and Govt should properly identify who is poor. It should not make people lethargic and not wanting to work thinking food would be given by Govt
Posted 24-09-2013 13:53
@Anh well said! We also have Korean version of Food bank here.
The problem is : It requires well-built infrastructures especially like refrigerator cars, highways and so on. The cost for the infrastructures VS The cost for food support. :-)
Posted 24-09-2013 13:49
When I went to US, there is a model that I appreciate a lot. It calls Food Bank. Families, restaurants, supermarkets can share their left-over or unused food with Food Bank. The volunteer in Food Bank will classify and pack the left-over and they have a small store, just like a grocery, poor people can go to this store with tickets to take free food!
It's so great.
We should think ideas to transfer left-over to someone who need them
Posted 24-09-2013 12:57
thanks for shared, need to work together to solve the problems of food security
Posted 23-09-2013 17:46
I heard that there was a severe inflation in the price of food in India. I wish it can help to settle the fluctuating food prices.
Posted 23-09-2013 17:34
Thanks for sharing
Posted 23-09-2013 16:51