Right to Food Campaign gives a call for dharna at Jantar Mantar on 7 August to press for amendments in the Food Security Ordinance The present amended version of the NFSO is extremely inadequate and makes a mockery of food security. It provides extremely limited food entitlements, is piece meal and is nowhere close to providing food security. It makes no provisions for production of food or for support of small and marginal farmers who are food producers, but very food insecure and poor. It even undermines some of the entitlements ensured by the Supreme Court of India in the Right to Food case. It has no provisions for community kitchens and feeding of the most hunger -prone or to deal with starvation deaths. We are also concerned that the process of implementation and identification of beneficiaries will not be done properly if such a hurried approach is taken. Media reports suggest that the Government plans to complete identification within two months. If this is indeed the case, then many deserving people will be excluded and there will be no scope for community participation and monitoring in the process of identification of beneficiaries, which is central to the process being fair and effective. The Right to Food Campaign has been consistently demanding a comprehensive food security law that incentivises agriculture production, provides for local procurement and local storage along with a decentralised and de-privatised universal PDS; special entitlements for children, mothers, aged, disabled, widows, migrants and destitute including universalised ICDS; monthly pensions, community kitchens and destitute feeding programmes; effective measures for grievance redress, transparency and accountability and safeguards against commercial interference including GMs in any of the food/nutrition related schemes and against the introduction of cash transfers in place of PDS. We demand that these concerns be addressed as amendments through an immediate Parliamentary debate on the Food Security Ordinance We invite you to join the dharna and demand a comprehensive and universalised National food security law. For detail contact:09711678326/011-29849563
Posted on: Mon, 05 Aug 2013 04:35:52 +0000
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