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The National Food Security Act, 2013

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Our public distribution system has been severely criticized for its gaping lacunae. To fill in these gaps, a new Act was originally conceived by the National Advisory Council headed by Congress President Sonia Gandhi, who on 27 October, 2010, forwarded the basic framework of the proposed National Food Security Bill (NFSB) to Prime Minister Manmohan Singh. The Bill envisaged covering 75 per cent of the country’s population, 90 per cent in rural areas and 50 per cent in urban areas. The National Food Security Bill followed from the National Food Security Ordinance, 2013 that was promulgated by the government on July 5. After being introduced in both Houses of Parliament, it was passed in August 2013. Under the new law those beneficiaries would be provided rice at Rs 3/kg, wheat for Rs 2/kg and jowar for Rs1/kg.

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  • Ministry of Law, Justice and Company Affairs GOI, 2013. "The National Food Security Act, 2013," Working Papers id:5493, eSocialSciences.
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    1. Raju, S. & Rampal, Priya & Bhavani, R. V. & Rajshekar, S. C., 2018. "Introduction of Millets into the Public Distribution System: Lessons from Karnataka," Review of Agrarian Studies, Foundation for Agrarian Studies, vol. 8(2), December.
    2. Rebecca Mitchell & Jessica Gordon & Gopal Krushna Bhoi & Nicholas Nisbett, 2023. "Applying the ‘Candidacy’ Model to understand access to key nutrition, food & health services in LMIC contexts: a qualitative study in Odisha, India," Food Security: The Science, Sociology and Economics of Food Production and Access to Food, Springer;The International Society for Plant Pathology, vol. 15(3), pages 649-660, June.
    3. Anjani Kumar & Shinoj Parappurathu & Suresh C. Babu & P. K. Joshi, 2017. "Can better governance improve food security? An assessment of the public food distribution system in Odisha, India," Food Security: The Science, Sociology and Economics of Food Production and Access to Food, Springer;The International Society for Plant Pathology, vol. 9(6), pages 1433-1445, December.
    4. Niyati, S. & Vijayamba, R., 2021. "Impact of the Covid-19 Pandemic on Food Security and Indebtedness in Rural India," Review of Agrarian Studies, Foundation for Agrarian Studies, vol. 11(1), June.

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