Ensuring food security for all-Comments & Analysis-Opinion-The Economic Times: "The National Food Security Bill, 2010 that aims to provide subsidised foodgrain to the very poor is welcome, but its definition of ‘food security’ is too narrow. The Rome declaration on World Food Security (at the World Food Summit in 1996) states that “we, the heads of state and government ... reaffirm the right of everyone to have (physical and economic) access to safe and nutritious food, consistent with the right to adequate food and the fundamental right of everyone to be free from hunger.” India is a signatory to this declaration.
The architects of the food security bill have either forgotten the Rome declaration or ignored it. Not only that it has defined food security in a narrow sense — minimum quantity of foodgrains to poor families at subsidised rates — it is also inconsistent with the fundamental right to life of every citizen, particularly when one looks at the issue in the context of various Supreme Court orders."
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