Food Security Bill must be pushed sensibly: Amartya Sen
ENS Economic Bureau: New Delhi, Feb 16 2013, 01:36 IST
food subsidy” but he said, “if the diesel subsidy, of about Rs 91,000 crore, was done away with”.
Shanta Sinha, chairperson of the National Commission for the Protection of Child Rights criticised the National Food Security Bill.
She took up the Parliamentary Standing Committee report on the Bill, which suggests replacing children’s entitlements with an additional allocation of 5 kg of food grains per month for pregnant women under the Public Distribution System.
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