Thursday, January 5, 2012

Food Security in India

With the Food Security Bill presented in Lok Sabha recently, there is an interesting debate going on concerning different dimensions of the issue. Ensuring food security is a long-unresolved problem in India, which houses the world’s largest number of undernourished children. The Government runs a number of special programmes to ensure food security and has a truly massive subsidy burden on this account. With a humongous population, a large proportion of which is truly living in penury, a broken PDS and fiscal limitations of the state, ensuring food security to all Indians is going to be a gargantuan task.

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