Good Food is First Food. It is not junk food. It is the food that connects nature and nutrition with livelihoods. This food is good for our health; it comes from the rich biodiversity of our regions; it provides employment to people. Most importantly, cooking and eating give us pleasure. …
New Delhi The Centre has released R45,125 crore towards food subsidy until December 15, in line with its budgeted subsidy of R60,572 crore for the current fiscal through March 2012. India’s food subsidy bill rose to R62,929,56 crore in 2010-11 from R58,242.45 crore the year before, food and public distribution …
The controversial targeted National Food Security Bill, which got the nod of the Union Cabinet on Sunday, is a pet project of United Progressive Alliance chairperson Sonia Gandhi. However, the recommendation made for near-universalisation by the National Advisory Council chaired by Ms. Gandhi, was set aside by the government. To …
Draft passed unanimously; disagreements may be sorted out by a standing committee. The Union Cabinet tonight cleared the much-awaited draft food security Bill, brightening the prospect of providing legal entitlement of food to three-fourth of the country’s rural population and half its urban dwellers. Food minister K V Thomas said …
Sonia’s ‘aam aadmi’ proposal likely to be introduced in Parliament today Brushing aside fears of food scarcity and inflation, the Union Cabinet tonight cleared the much-awaited National Food Security Bill, taking the Manmohan Singh government a step closer to fulfilling the promise made to the “Aam Admi” in the Congress …
New Delhi The Cabinet will discuss the National Food Security Bill, 2011, on Monday, in a bid to introduce the proposed legislation in the current session of Parliament. Food minister K V Thomas on Friday said discussions on the food Bill in the Cabinet which was deferred earlier this week …
West Bengal chief minister Mamata Banerjee’s move to stall decision on the National Food Security Bill by writing a letter to the Prime Minister Manmohan Singh just on the eve of the Cabinet meeting appears to have been more for political reasons than any serious objections. Sources in the food …
Upset at the Trinamul Congress chief, Miss Mamata Banerjee, stalling the food security Bill, the food ministry has dismissed her objections and said since all the issues raised by the West Bengal government were addressed in November, the chief minister has “no solid ground or locus standi” to oppose the …
Cabinet Nod Likely On Sunday, Will Be In House By Next Week New Delhi: The National Food Security Bill is likely to be cleared by the Cabinet on Sunday and tabled in Parliament next week, with Congress managers working overtime to ensure no glitches come in the way of its …
New Delhi After the Cabinet deferred a decision on the National Food Security Bill, 2011, on Tuesday due to lack of consensus on the issue, food minister KV Thomas on Wednesday said the Cabinet may discuss the proposed legislation on Sunday. “A special Cabinet meeting is scheduled for Sunday, where …
New Delhi The ambitious Food Security Bill of the UPA government was on Tuesday deferred by the Cabinet, apparently spooked by the huge financial commitment it entailed. With every economic indicator plummeting and the GDP growth rate for 2012-13 expected to be only about 6%, it was decided to hold …
Once bitten, twice shy. Fearing repeat of a recent fiasco triggered by its move to permit FDI in retail, the union cabinet on Tuesday deferred a decision on what can be called the present government’s most ambitious social welfare scheme: the Food Security Bill. For, differences continue to persist within …
New Delhi The Cabinet is likely to consider the National Food Security Bill which envisages subsidised foodgrain as legal entitlement for two third of the country's population on Tuesday. Once the Cabinet approves the bill, the food ministry will table in parliament during the current season. As per the food …
New Delhi Just two days ahead of a crucial cabinet meeting to clear the UPA-II government’s National Food Security Bill (NFSB), food minister KV Thomas on Sunday said the country’s food subsidy would not go up significantly following implementation mega initiative, which aims at giving legal entitlement to subsidised foodgrains …
The Punjab government on Thursday recommended to the Centre that multi-crop irrigated land should not be acquired under the proposed national land acquisition policy. While differing with the central proposal on several counts, it also recommended that rehabilitation and resettlement be applicable only to those persons whose livelihood was dependent …
The Delhi government has opposed certain provisions of the National Food Security Bill draft saying the proposed universalisation of foodgrain entitlements to majority of the population would be very “difficult to implement”. In a letter to Union food minister K.V. Thomas, the Delhi government said corruption was rampant in the …
Social activists up in arms against proposed reforms; impact on procurement feared The Union Government's new move to give primacy in the revised draft of the National Food Security Bill, 2011, to controversial schemes like cash transfers and issuance of food coupons to identified public distribution system beneficiaries in lieu …
The government plans to form an inter-ministerial committee to suggest ways to check misleading advertisements that claim exaggerated benefits like fair skin or full energy, junior food minister K V Thomas said on Thursday. Speaking at a conference organised by the Advertising Standards Council of India, the industry’s self regulator, …
New Delhi Several state governments have come out strongly against how the centre has planned the resource mobilisation for the national food security law, a key initiative of the UPA-II government. States including those ruled by the Congress party has complained to the Union food ministry that legal entitlements for …
With the Sonia Gandhi-led National Advisory Council (NAC) insisting on providing separate legal entitlements to some sections — pregnant women, lactating mothers, homeless, destitute and disaster affected households — in the proposed food security law, the Food Ministry is set to insist on state governments sharing the cost to fund …
Thiruvananthapuram The National Food Security Bill (NFSB), which would entail an expenditure of R1 lakh crore in subsidies to the exchequer, is almost ready. However, given the recent string of festivals, it may not be able to meet the November 20 deadline. Therefore, it is likely to seek Cabinet scrutiny …
