India plans to finance about 8 million people, according to $$2 billion plan, in order to reduce malnutrition and alleviate poverty of wheat, rice and grains.
Food safety bill ", subject to approval by the Indian parliament President, this week received legal safeguard citizen's right to food.
India has some of the world's worst poverty and malnutrition, 120 million people in poverty and malnutrition in children half of two-thirds of the country. But the cost of $2 billion dollars a year, to consolidate and expand the existing subsidy, the act has caused the government financial tension, India is flirting when the economic crisis, the currency fell, a renewed focus on debt mounts.
Food minister KV Thomas says, the bill of the first step in improving a country food distribution, poor transportation and lack of refrigeration, on average, as much as 40% of all grains, produce decay to reach the market.
Last week, the house of Commons on Monday, after the Indian parliament's upper house through legislation, the ruling congress party promised, for a long time.
It allows those who qualify for a month to buy 5 kg of rice, a kilo of 3 rupees (4.5 cents). Will spend 200 rupees a kilo of wheat, and the cost of grain is 1 rupees.
Pregnant women and new mothers will have at least 6000 rupees ($90) in aid. Deviations of the tradition of son preference in India, the plan specified in each head of the family the eldest son of the woman, want to prevent from the black market over rations. This will also help keep the rising cost of subsidies, the government said.
The poorest families, had accepted funding rate is as high as 35 kg of grain a month, will continue to accept those benefits, the government said.
Expand spending will increase food subsidies, from 0.8% to 1.2% of gross domestic product (GDP).
Moody's credit rating agency, said last week that food bill would hinder the ability of the government, in order to consolidate its finances. The reserve bank of India also warns in its annual report, the bill could be amplified by the strain of the government budget, and limits its room for manoeuvre in the future.
"Given the macroeconomic situation and the time is not right," provoke than omar, rbi governor, told the news agency press trust of India, although he admits that food program (WFP), or "ideal things happen."
The government has said it can afford 612000 tons of food needs, as well as the measures taken by recently such as cutting diesel subsidies will help. It said that it would cover the cost of the plan as much as $2 billion a year, including the existing subsidies, but this will be the Indian states, to decide who will qualify.
As the next year's elections looming, the opposition criticized the bill as a gimmick to win votes, at the same time also say the plan itself isn't enough ambition to improve nutrition.
India since the 1960 s, and provide free school meals at noon, in an effort to persuade the poor parents to send their children to school. Now the plan to reach about 1.2 million children. A hot, pregnant women and new mothers home cooking shows similar promises - ensure that the new law extends to children aged 6 to 14.



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