Clarify delay in identifying Right to Food Act beneficiaries: Supreme Court to Centre 11 Nov, 2014, 0341 hrs IST, Samanwaya Rautray, ET Bureau The ambitious law pushed through by the previous UPA govt that aims to cover three-fourths of the country’s population is yet to be implemented. NEW DELHI: The Supreme Court has asked the Centre to explain why it has fallen behind on conducting a socio-economic caste census or the BPL census and identifying beneficiaries of the Right to Food Act. A bench comprising Justices TS Thakur and FMI Kalifullah on Monday issued notices to the government after senior lawyer Colin Gonsalves raised the plea for NGO Peoples Union for Civil Liberties (PUCL). The ambitious law pushed through at the last minute by the previous UPA government that aims to cover three-fourths of the countrys population is yet to be implemented. In a fresh application, PUCL has claimed that under Section 10 of the Act identification of eligible households was to be completed within 365 days of the enactment of the law, by July 2014. The NGO alleged that the minister for food and civil supplies seemed to have extended the deadline by three to six months without informing the public. The minister has acted illegally in issuing such a direction as it amounts to overriding the mandate of Parliament, PUCL said.
Posted on: Wed, 19 Nov 2014 18:19:17 +0000
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