 Has no nutritional security, no provision for the homeless, and has even

downsized the number of BPL.

 It does not provide for cash transfer through food coupons.

 Increase the issue price of cheap grains from the current Rs 3 a kg

 The most vulnerable sections

 Three – quarters of the population at Rs .2 a kilo

 13 socio – economic parameters – including calorie intake

 According to the governments estimates a third of our country’s population is

poor.

 Planning commission deliberately brought the number down to 27.2. state

government estimates 45%

 Suresh Tendulkar Committee – 37.2 % of Indians qualify as poor

 Undernourished constitute over 60% - housing, health care sanitation and other
minimum necessities.

 The food security bill does not take these factors

 The draft bill was said to have been sent to the same EGoM

 Intervention in reworking on the food security bill to make it more humane

 The total number of undernourished persons – 252 million in 2004-06

 Five years of age who are underweight is now 42.5 %

 The percentage of children below three years who are undernourished is 40

percent

 FM described as Myth the perception that 77% of Indian people lived on Rs 20 a

day

 Child development services (ICDS), the kishori shakti yojana. The Nutrition
programme for Adolescent Girls,