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More foodgrains for India's poor | Union Agriculture Minister Sharad Pawar on Tuesday said the proposed National Food Security Bill to ensure certain quantity of food grains to below poverty line families is under the consideration of the Empowered Group of Ministers (EGoM). "The requirement
of food grains and the amount that the government will have to spend for the implementation
of the proposed law will depend on several factors. These include central issue
prices, economic cost and the number of beneficiaries," said Pawar in a written
reply in the Lok Sabha today. "No proposal has been received for implementing
this law in a phased manner on the pattern of National Rural Employment Guarantee
Scheme," he added. Pawar further said considering the estimation of poverty, an
expert group set up by the Planning Commission to examine the methodology for
the purpose, has submitted its report and the process of finalizing the methodologies
for the identification of the rural poor is being finalized. "As far as the urban
poor is concerned, the report by a group, set up by the Planning Commission, is
awaited," he said. |
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