--Right to Food Campaign: Two Positions on India's Food Security Bill
Q&A: India to Make Food a Fundamental Right
By Ranjit Devraj
A tribal widow in India bends over a wood fire making puffed rice. Credit: Manipadma Jena/IPS
New Delhi, June 24 2013 (IPS) - Ranjit Devraj interviews SANJEEV CHOPRA, managing director of the National Agricultural Cooperative Marketing Federation of India (NAFED) on the advantagesand pitfalls of the proposed Food Security Bill to be passed in July to make access to food a fundamental right. The planned legislation is set to cover 800 million Indians under the world's biggest food subsidy programme. The implementation of the new bill will cost 23 billion dollars annually and has been criticised by the ruling Congress party as merely an attempt to grab votes in an election year.
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Activists intensify food bill agitation
RANCHI, Jun 22, 2013 TNN
Meanwhile, activists of the Right to Food Campaign have moved to intensify the public pressure to bring about logical and necessary amendments to the proposed bill, with the advisor to the monitoring committee of the Supreme Court for the Food Security Scheme, Balram stating "We have been campaigning for a holistic bill covering all aspects of peoples basic right to fight against hunger and have no objection to the legislation as long as certain amendments are accepted by the government," he said.
There will be a meeting organised by the activists involved in New Delhi on June 30 followed by another with the UN Special Rapportuer on Right to Food, Oliver D Shooter on July 3 to discuss objections and amendments that should be incorporated into the bill before it is passed by the Government.
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