Wanted - a flexible food security plan

The Right to Food Act is well intentioned, but a rigidly mandated approach may pre-empt more efficient solutions emerging in the future.  In a right-to-development approach, citizens are given some basic rights by the government of the country. One such right is freedom from hunger, which has prompted the move towards a Food Security Act. Various people have debated and discussed what an appropriate approach for such an Act should be and the National Advisory Council (NAC) has put up a draft Bill on its website. I have read the draft and am a bit worried about whether it will solve our problems of hunger and starvation.

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