Food security: The poor are moving on

While the critics of the Food Security Bill (FSB) have largely focused on its costs and the leakages (40-50% of the food doesn’t go to the target groups) as compared to cash transfers of the type envisaged under the direct benefits transfer (DBT) scheme, the larger issue is of whether the poor want what the FSB is offering them—wheat and rice, primarily, at vastly subsidised prices.

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