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All you wanted to know about the national food security bill

Nowhere on the planet, nowhere in mankind’s history has such an idea taken the concrete shape in form of a law. The National Food Security Bill, which will come via ordinance and not after......

Cabinet clears Sonia's Food Security Bill

Aiming to provide food security to the poor, the government today approved food bill that seeks to give legal entitlement of cheaper food grains to 63.5 per cent of the country's population. The......

Why India deserves a better Food Security Bill

'Any meaningful food security programme should aim at gradually reducing the number of hungry dependent on government support,' says Devinder Sharma. 'This is only possible if the government had......

Food Security Bill introduced in Lok Sabha

The much-touted Food Security Bill, which proposes to give the country's three-fourth population the right to highly-subsidised food, was introduced in the Lok Sabha on Wednesday, with the......

Food Security Bill likely in Parliament on Wednesday

The ordinance on the Food Security Bill is expected to come up for consideration in the Lok Sabha on Wednesday, sources said on Monday. The ordinance on the ambitious scheme was signed by President......

Revised food security Bill gives states more power

The revised National Food Security Bill (NFSB) gives greater flexibility to states. For one, NFSB, cleared by the Cabinet last week and due to be presented in Parliament, allows states to choose......

The real moral failure in the food security Bill debate

A widening food entitlement under the notoriously leaky public distribution system, rather than through direct cash transfers, is self-evidently a giant step backward in rationalising the provision......

Food Security Bill faces fresh challenge

Experts say the Bill should include higher-value food items than just cereals Even as the government is gearing up to bring in the cereal-centric National Food Security Bill (NFSB), Indian......

COLUMN: Food security or dole?

There is a vast grey area between a bill that promises to ensure that no one goes hungry and the political economy of producing food, writes Rajni Bakshi. With the approval of the National Food......

Food Security Bill: A few pertinent questions

On Tuesday, foreign institutional investors sold Indian paper heavily and the 30-share Sensex crashed 590 points, or 3.18 per cent. They were spooked by the passage of the Food Security Bill by the......

National Food Security Bill

News for National Food Security Bill

All you wanted to know about the national food security bill

Cabinet clears Sonia's Food Security Bill

Why India deserves a better Food Security Bill

Food Security Bill introduced in Lok Sabha

Food Security Bill likely in Parliament on Wednesday

Revised food security Bill gives states more power

The real moral failure in the food security Bill debate

Food Security Bill faces fresh challenge

COLUMN: Food security or dole?

Food Security Bill: A few pertinent questions

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