• 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

Public Deprived System -Jitendra

rnments have removed names of some beneficiaries stating that they no longer belong to the category. But no name has been added to the lists so far, says Dharmendra, convenor of the Delhi division of Right to Food Campaign. P P Malhotra, additional solicitor general, who is pursuing the case on behalf of the government, calls the exclusion an oversight and blames it on absence of a proper law. Enactment of National Food Security Bill will fix the prob

CAG report shows why food security will be a disaster-Vivek Kaul

given that 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 Indi

Stuck record: Why Amartya Sen is wrong on food security again -R Jagannathan

opted for it." That, Dr Sen, is the reality - whether you talk about Food Security or Universal Healthcare. While the state has the clear role as facilitator, people want a choice. The Right to Food is not any more important than the Right to Choice. To force an economically unsustainable Food Security Bill, which is going to cost Rs 6,00,000 crore over three years, down the throats of two-thirds of the population is not a sign of great

Between mass hunger and bursting granaries-Agrima Bhasin

as been weakened to mean a passive right to receive whatever the state gives The hallmark of the National Food Security Bill 2011 is that if implemented it will translate into India's first ever Right to Food legislation, guaranteeing food as a justiciable, legal entitlement to its people. However, in its current form, the Bill fails to evolve a robust understanding of food security - one in which "food" is valued as a basic fact of lif

Food Bill: Amartya Sen Calls for Restoration of Parliamentary Democracy

-Right to Food Campaign and NCPRI Press Release: With the Parliament unable to function for weeks on end, critical social legislations are being held up. As political parties blame each other for this stalemate, the Indian people - especially the poor - are paying the price. Casualties of this blame game include the Food Security Bill, the Grievance Redressal Bill, and more.   6 May (Delhi): Speaking at a press conference organ

UN official: India should become a democracy for women

Act, 2009, Ms. Puri said U.N. Women supported a rights-based approach to development. "India is a role model in this kind of approach because they have pioneered this model, be it Right to Work, Right to Food, and Right to Education." Pointing out that universal access to primary education would have a positive gender effect, Ms. Puri, however, said it was not enough. "We have to make sure the educational curricula and educational

An Agricultural Nightmare -Deepak Gopinath

rkets when output in the major grain-producing states starts to lag demand. Perversely, the government's planned National Food Security Bill will only accelerate this process. The bill creates a Right to Food for two-thirds of India's 1.2 billion people and requires the government to distribute heavily subsidized food grain on a massive scale. The law is a major plank of the governing UPA coalition's electoral strategy for 2014, and the governmen

Food as a right

ational Food Security Bill, 2013 promises to address the extreme irony of an ambitious nation holding mountains of food in storage, while masses of its people are undernourished or even starving. The Right to Food is finally on the threshold of being legislated. Every step taken to widen the coverage of food security schemes is an advance. Yet, the empirical truth is that incremental measures at targeting the needy are a poor substitute for a cohesive

Food security law will not meet nutritional norms: RTF campaign

-The Hindustan Times Just 165 grams of cereals a person will get every day once the national food security law comes into effect, the Right to Food (RTF) campaign said on Tuesday. Reacting to the Cabinet’s approval of the bill, the campaign said the food entitlement would be woefully short of government’s own norm for nutritional requirement of a person. The campaign said that the provision of providing only 5 kg of cereals to a pe

Cabinet clears revised Food Bill-Gargi Parsai

s was proposed earlier. The additional burden on the food subsidy is estimated at about Rs. 23,000 crore at 2012-13 prices. The grain requirement is estimated at 61.23 million tonnes. The Right to Food Campaign, a conglomeration of civil society groups that began its sit-in here seeking a universal food security law, flayed the revised bill as “unacceptable” as it has “diluted provision for community kitchens, desti