National Food Security Bill

Dear Friends, In this article I want you to provide a glimpse of highly acclaimed and famous NATIONAL FOOD SECURITY BILL. First of all I want to make one thing very clear that NFS is a bill not an act yet.
A bill is represented by the concerned minister in the parliament ( wahi jahan sab ladte rehte hain..tv mein dekha hoga)..If the bill get passed in the Loksabha and Rajyasabha and if the President of India give his assent to the bill then it becomes an act..Ok..so at present it is just passed by the parliament , President's assent is required ..So it's a bill....

Now salient feature's of the bill..which I recently discussed with my friend Dhaniya...

Dhaniya --- Yaar what is this National Food Security Bill? ( from now on I will write NFS and it doesn't stand for Need for Speed)

Me - As the name implies Food Security for the nation. Government will provide Food...

Dhaniya - But I do not need it.. My father is a business man and we also do not live in a food scare place..

Me - It's not about you.. It's about those who are poor and those who comes under below poverty line..... who can't afford it...

Dhaniya -- acchaa.. Please elaborate..

Me -  Government will bring 75% people of rural area and 50% people of urban area under food security.

Dhaniya - what they will give? Butter Chicken?? Malai Kofta??? Butter naan...????????

Me - No dhaniya ,  They will provide nutritional food grains with special focus on children , pregnant women and lactating women. They will get their assigned food grains from PDS...

Dhaniya - I know PVR but what is this PDS??

Me - PDS stand for public distribution system .. It's like small retailer shops from where we generally purchase our day to day commodities. The same way PDS distributes food grains like wheat, rice, pulses in very subsidised rate to the poors.. this rate is decided by the government..

Dhaniya -- Ohh like in NAYAK movie , where few shopkeepers were cheating poor people and then Anil kapoor come as a C.M. and arrested them..

Me - Yes.. this happens in real world also.. but through this policy government completely revolutionized this delivery system. Now they will deliver the goods at door step of the assigned person and everything will get computerised including payment also.Now they will give you a computerised receipt of how much food grains they delivered and what price they charged..This will bring transparency in the system... Nice initiative taken by the MINISTRY OF CONSUMER AFFAIRS

Dhaniya - Who is the Minister of that???

Me - Currently Prof. K.V. Thomas in the minister for  MINISTRY OF CONSUMER AFFAIRS...

Dhaniya - How much food grain do they provide?

Me - NFS will cover 2/3rd of the Population and they will get 5 kg of food garins per month at highly subsidized rate of 1 - 3 rupees per kg.

Dhaniya -- Ok ..

Friend's there are a lot of data's in the bill like how much food grains will be provided? Which food grains will be provided on what quantity? How Centre and State will resolve the differences ?

I have just provided you an overview of this policy..so that you can take participation in group discussion and interview..If I will provide you more numerical and complex data then it will lead to confusion.

I hope after reading this you will get an overview of NATIONAL FOOD SECURITY BILL...

JAI HIND


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