National Food Security Act - The Sangai Express Editorial :: June 02 , 2014 - National Food Security Act was passed by the Parliament last year at the initiative of UPA Government led by Prime Minister Dr Manmohan Singh. The Act is a bold and ambitious one in the sense that it aims to provide food grains to the country’s teeming millions of poor at highly subsidized rates. The combined coverage of Priority and Antyodaya households or the total eligible households shall extend up to 75 per cent of the rural population and up to 50 per cent of the urban population as calculated by many analysts and economists. NFSA has a provision of an age-appropriate meal, free of charge, through the local Anganwadi for children in the age group of 6 months to 6 years. Read full @ goo.gl/IhRaeI
Posted on: Mon, 02 Jun 2014 03:29:53 +0000
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