Objectives
- The primary objective of the National Food Security Bill 2013 is to provide for food and nutritional security in human life cycle approach. This will be done by ensuring access to adequate quantify of quality food at affordable prices to people so that they can live a life with dignity and matters connected therewith or incidental thereto.
Primary Features of the National Food Security Bill 2013
- National Food Security Bill 2013 will guarantee 5 kg of rice, wheat and coarse cereals per month per person at 3, 2 and 1 Rupees respectively.
- The Bill will enable India to join the selected set of nations which guarantee foodgrains to majority of its population.
- The Food Security Programme launched under the National Food Security Bill 2013 will be the largest programme of the world with the 130000 crore Rupees government support.
- The Bill would require a total of 62 million tonnes of foodgrains.
- The National Food Security Bill 2013 is said to be the first step towards universalisation of Public Distribution System.
- Under the Bill, all the pregnant women as well as lactating mothers would be given free meal during the pregnancy till six months post delivery.
- The pregnant women will also be given maternity benefit of 6000 Rupees in installments.
- Children till the age of 14 years will also be getting free meals under the National Food Security Bill 2013.
- In case there is non-supply of the foodgrains, all the states will be paying the food security allowance to the beneficiaries.
- The National Food Security Bill 2013 is said to be the biggest game changer in the upcoming elections of 2014.
- The scheme will be linked to the Aadhar scheme which provides every citizen with a unique identification number that's linked to a database that includes the biometrics of all card-holders.
Challenges
- increasing fiscal deficit.
- Decreasing rate of tax revenue increase
- capacity and quality of delivery mechanism. Plz refer PDS.
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