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Name : Jiral Shah
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Dhruvil Shah
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Hussain Padrawala
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Dhruvraj Atalia
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Class : MBA First Semester
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Project : “The National Food Security Bill”
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Given By : Professor Mobin Shaikh
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Sub. Date : 10th September 2013, Monday
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Content : Aim
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Why it is important?
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Who it affects?
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How it works?
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Cost
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Criticism
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What’s next?
The National Food Security Bill, 2013
Aim:
* UPA Chairperson and President of Congress Party Smt. Sonia Gandhi promised food security in 2009 and she drafted this bill in parliament.
* The primary objective of the bill is to guarantee cheap food grain to nearly 70% of India’s 1.2 billion people.
* The broader aim is to alleviate chronic hunger and poverty in India.
Why it’s important?
* India accounts for a third of the world’s poor,
the World Bank said earlier this year.
* Almost half of the country’s children under five
are classed as constantly half-starved, and more
than a third of Indians aged 15 to 49 are starving,
according to...