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I urge the BJP government at the Centre to reject the recommendations Shanta Kumar committee for totally closing down Public Distribution System and come forward to implement food security scheme protecting poor and downtrodden people by continuing to help them. The Shanta Kumar Committee report has recommended the Centre that the Food Corporation of India can be completely overhauled and the extent of food subsidy can be drastically brought down by providing food security to only 40 percent instead of 67 percent of the people in the country under Food Security Act. Just like the decision taken to substantially reduce the subsidy for fertilizer and petroleum products, the Central BJP government is considering reduction of food subsidy also. It is learnt that the Centre is ignoring the fact that only farmers and poor and downtrodden families will be much affected by such series of measures. Having transferred the control over price control on petroleum product from its responsibility to the oil companies the Centre is transferring the subsidy for cooking gas to the bank accounts of beneficiaries. It has also planned to gradually wash off fertilizer subsidy. In that way, the Centre in August last set up a committee headed by BJP’s former Union Food Minister Shanta Kumar for bringing down food subsidy. It is that committee which has presented its recommendations to Prime Minister Narendra Modi on 21st According to the recommendations of Shanta Kumar committee, the government of Tamil Nadu will have additionally spend Rs.1000 crore for fair price rice alone. In this situation, as Shanta Kumar committee has recommended reduction of beneficiaries to 40 percent, the allocation for Tamil Nadu will be reduced to 14.80 lakh tonnes, due to which Tamil Nadu government will have to provide additional fund for rice subsidy than spent now. Parties like Communist Party of India (Marxist) and Pattali Makkal Katchi have severely opposed it. In this situation, I urge the BJP government at the Centre to reject the recommendations Shanta Kumar committee for totally closing down Public Distribution System and come forward to implement food security scheme protecting poor and downtrodden people by continuing to help them.
Posted on: Sun, 25 Jan 2015 04:35:28 +0000

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