The document discusses India's National Food Security Bill and the ongoing challenges around food security in India. It notes that while food production is generally adequate, distribution remains a problem. The National Food Security Bill aims to address this issue through a rights-based approach, guaranteeing subsidized food grains to 67% of the population. However, ensuring food security at a micro level across India's large population faces ongoing challenges such as targeting the right beneficiaries, agricultural sustainability, and credible public distribution systems. Effective policy tools and implementation will be needed to achieve the goal of food and nutritional security for all.

1. Food Security and Food
Security Bill in India:
Challenges and Prospects for
the Future
Ashok Gaur
Assistant professor
C.P.Patel & F. H. Shah Commerce
College, Anand, Gujarat
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2. Introduction
Before Green Revolution of 1969.
 After Green Revolution
 Still Problems of unavailability of food
grains and inefficient distribution
system
 ― In India, Production is not problem
but distribution is the problem
 Article-21 –Right to life with dignity.
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3. Status of Indian Agriculture
Underdeveloped sector
 Low productivity
 Poor handling and storage
 Access to market
 Globalization
 Pests
 Poor polices
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4. Despite ensuring ample availability of
food, existence of food insecurity at the
micro level in the country has remained a
formidable challenge for India
 Population growth rate and food grain
growth rate
 The recently introduced National Food
Security Bill (NFSB) aims to address this
and marks a paradigm shift in addressing
the problem of food security—from the
current welfare approach to a rights based
approach
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5. •The National Food Security Bill, 2013 passed by the
parliament on late Monday gives right to subsidized food
grain to 67 percent of India's 1.2 billion people and
provides for penalty for non-compliance by public
servants.
•The bill's salient features include:
Seventy five percent of rural and 50 percent of
the urban population entitled to five kg food grains
per month at Rs 3, Rs 2, Re 1 per kg for rice,
wheat and coarse grains, respectively.
•Pregnant women, lactating mothers, and certain
categories of children are eligible for daily free
meals.
•The bill was highly controversial, and despite
introduction into Parliament in December 2012
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was passed only in late August 2013, after initially
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6. Food security challenges in
India
Food Availability
 Matching Income and Price
 Choice of nutritious and safe food
 Adequate safety nets and food
emergency management
 Adequate and relevant information
 Evaluation and reporting of food
security programs
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7. Challenges
Feasibility- Technical, Financial, and
Operation
1. Targeting
2. Determine the number of poor
3. Agriculture unsustainability
4. Crisis in agriculture
5. Low developed agriculture sector
6. Credibility of PDS
7. Direct cash transfer
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8. Cost of food gains
 Disaster emergency situation
 Effect of framer and producers
 Not enough resources
 failure to define beneficiaries
 Budget deficit
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9. Suggestion
Learned from other schemes
 Pulses
 Reduce the leakage from PDS
 Sustainable farming
 No too mush reliance on government
 Reducing loops holes in PDS
 Ever Green revolution
 Improve and modernize the storage
facilities
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10. Suggestion
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Diversify the food basket
Inclusive approach
Monitoring and rectification steps
Revitalize the PDS
Cheap credit
Fund Management
Independent redressed mechanism
More investment in agriculture
infrastructure.
No to corruption
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11. Conclusion
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The challenges in guaranteeing right
to food in India remain complex. The
nation needs an effective policy tools
and implementation to achieve the
end objective of ensuring food and
nutritional security in India.
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