Cong states join protests on Food Bill

Cutting across party lines, most state governments have objected to the National Food Security Bill proposed by the Centre, which is likely to be tabled in the Winter Session of Parliament. Their objections range from seeking powers to decide on criteria that would make a person eligible as a beneficiary under the proposed law “so as not to encourage the existence of vagabonds”, to asking the Centre to bear the entire cost of implementation of the scheme, and seeking an “unambiguous” definition of the term starvation.

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