• Key Facts

• Farmers' suicides

• Rural distress

• Debt Trap

• Unemployment

• Migration

• GENDER

• Displacement

• Right to Food  

• Right to Work (MG-NREGA)

• Social Audit

• Right to Information

• Right to Education

• Forest and Tribal Rights

• Policy/ Action so far

• Poverty and inequality

• Hunger Overview

• Malnutrition

• HDI Overview

• Education  

• Public Health

• Mid Day Meal Scheme (MDMS)

• PDS/ Ration/ Food Security  

• MDGs

• Water and Sanitation

• Impact on Agriculture

• Time Bomb Ticking

• Social Justice

• Access to Justice

• Human Rights

• Corruption

• General Insecurity

• Disaster & Relief

Prof. Abhijit Sen, member-Planning Commission interviewed by Yogima Seth & Madhvi Sally

-The Economic Times The huge delay in bringing the Food Security Bill to Parliament and the massive opposition to it have seen most states going ahead with key provisions of the proposed Bill, Planning Commission member Abhijit Sen tells ET. Sen has doubts whether the bill would be passed in the Monsoon Session of Parliament. Edited excerpts: * Do you think Food Security Bill would be pas

Model Food Bill on Chhattisgarh Legislation: BJP to UPA

population," BJP national spokesman Shahnawaz Hussain told reporters. Hailing the success of food legislation in BJP-ruled Chhattisgarh which is covering 90 per cent of the population under Food Security legislation, he suggested that the Central Food bill be modelled after it. The proposed Food Bill would provide subsidised foodgrains to 67 per cent of the population while the food legislation of Chhattisgarh covers 90 per cent of the c

An Abstract Hunger- Anuradha Raman

-Outlook A govt in credibility crisis wants to see the Food Security bill through The UPA-II government's flagship programme, the Food Security Bill, which comes with a neat price tag of Rs 1.23 lakh crore, holds the promise of eradicating hunger. If passed, the bill, it is expected, will ensure foodgrain to 67 per cent of the poor. Surely, with elections round the corner, no political party

Arvind Panagariya, a professor of Indian economics at Columbia University interviewed by Ullekh NP

essor of Indian economics at Columbia University, hits out at Nobel laureate and Harvard University professor Amartya Sen over his call to confront MPs with the "number of deaths" a delayed Food Security Bill can cause. The former chief economist at the Asian Development Bank counters Sen's argument that it is high social spending that has contributed to the economic growth of Asian economies such as Japan, Singapore, China, etc. Panagariya

Public Deprived System -Jitendra

to claim subsidised foodgrain under public distribution system The government has denied 76 million people in the country eligible to access public distribution system (PDS) the benefits of the Food Security system. For the past 20 years, the government has not cared to refresh its data and has been distributing foodgrain according to the population figure of 1991. Worse, the Centre has stopped additional allocation of five million tonnes o

UPA's 'Bharat smiling' feebly -Subodh Varma

2010 and 2012, the number of children in Class V who could read Class II text fell from 54% to 47% and those who could solve a two-digit subtraction problem with borrowing fell from 70% to 50%. Food Security The Food Security bill is still pending in Parliament after going through years of grinding debate and nit-picking. India has 230 million hungry people, a quarter of such people in the whole

The latest buzz: eating insects can help tackle food insecurity, says FAO

tle experience in insect farming, for example, which is something that could be explored in view of a growing population." According to the book, which was launched today at the Forests for Food Security and Nutrition conference, taking place through Wednesday at FAO headquarters in Rome, farming insects for human and animal consumption is particularly relevant at a time when population growth, urbanization, and the rising middle class have

Breed insects to improve human Food Security: UN report-John Vidal

ty due to a growing demand for sustainable feed sources," say the authors who have been working with the UN's Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) on the potential for insects improving human Food Security. "The bioconversion process takes low-cost waste materials and generates a valuable commodity. Depending on the species, a single female fly can lay up to 1,000 eggs over a seven-day period, which then hatch into larvae. Potential

The food mountain: security or a liability?- Renu Kohli

r to the procurement a year ago. So, food stocks could very well peak at 88-90 mt this June. That this food mountain was built in anticipation of an early implementation of the proposed National Food Security Bill (NFSB) and to meet exigencies because of the drought, just before the national elections, is no secret. At 88 mt in June 2013, the government would have accumulated more than 22.5 mt of additional food stock in the last two years. The f

CAG report shows why Food Security will be a disaster-Vivek Kaul

t it does not contain any big number running into lakhs of crores like previous reports of the CAG did. But it clearly explains why the government of India is in no position to introduce the Right to Food Security Bill. And if it does that, it will be a disaster. Currently, the government declares a minimum support price (MSP) for wheat and rice paddy, and buys them directly from farmers using the services of the Food Corporation of India (FCI) a