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Food Security in India - Policies & Challenges (Hardcover)
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Food Security in India - Policies & Challenges (Hardcover)
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Food security is one of the major components of social security. It
consists of ensuring that food is available at all times, that all
persons have means of and access to it, that it is nutritionally
adequate in terms of quantity, quality and variety, and that it is
acceptable within the given culture. There are three elements in
this definition, availability, access and suitability. In recent
years, nutrition has been considered as part of food security. The
National Development Council (NDC) in its 53rd meeting held on May
29, 2007 adopted a resolution to launch a Food Security Mission --
comprising rice, wheat and pulses -- to increase the production of
rice by 10 million tons, wheat by 8 million tons and pulses by 2
million tons by the end of the Eleventh Five Year Plan (2007-12).
Accordingly, a Centrally-sponsored scheme, viz. National Food
Security Mission (NFSM) was launched from 2007-08 to operationalise
the above mentioned resolution. National Food Security Bill was
introduced in the Lok Sabha on 22 December 2011. As per the
provisions of the Bill, it is proposed to provide 7 kilograms of
foodgrains per person per month belonging to priority households at
prices not exceeding 3 per kilogram of rice, 2 per kilogram of
wheat, and 1 per kilogram of coarse grains and to general
households not less than 3 kilogram of foodgrains per person per
month at prices not exceeding 50 percent of the minimum support
price (MSP) for wheat and coarse grains and derived MSP for rice.
The present volume consists of 15 research papers on the subject of
food security, contributed by scholars in the field. The issues
raised in different papers add constructively to the current debate
on this sensitive subject of national importance.
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