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Food Bill proposal stuck in low yield

The Government may be planning to pass the Food Security Bill in the next session of Parliament, but the Food Ministry has warned against the attempt to broadbase the category of beneficiaries as recommended by the National Advisory Council (NAC). Sources said the Food Ministry has communicated to the Planning Commission that NAC’s demand to give legal entitlement to both priority (below poverty line) and general category is “unrealistic” considering the current production trend.

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