Please click here to access the National Food Security Act, 2013, which got the Presidential assent on 10 September, 2013. Please click here to access the National Food Security Bill that was passed by the Lok Sabha on 26 August, 2013. The Chhattisgarh Food Security Act 2012 can be accessed from here. The National Food Security Ordinance, 2013 notified by the Union government that entitles 67% of…
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Recommendations made by the National Advisory Council (NAC) pertaining to the Right to Food Bill during its sixth meeting, http://www.nac.nic.in/press_releases/23_october%20_2010.pdf: 1. The Sixth meeting of the National Advisory Council was chaired by Smt. Sonia Gandhi on 23rd October, 2010 at 2 Motilal Nehru Place, New Delhi. 2. Members who attended the meeting were Prof. M.S. Swaminathan,…
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According to Education in India: 2007-08, Participation and ExpenditureNSS 64th Round, (July 2007–June 2008), Report No. 532(64/25.2/1): • A survey on ‘Participation and Expenditure in Education’ was conducted in NSS 64th round (July 2007 – June 2008). A sample of 445960 persons, from 63318 rural households and 37263 urban households spread over the country, was surveyed. • The…
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According to the Report on the State of Food Insecurity in Rural India (2009), which has been prepared by the MS Swaminathan Research Foundation (MSSRF) and the World Food Programme (WFP), http://home.wfp.org/stellent/groups/public/documents/newsroom/wfp197348.pdf:
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According to the Report No. 510 on “Public Distribution System and Other Sources of Household Consumption, 2004-05” based on the seventh quinquennial survey on Household Consumer Expenditure carried out during the NSS 61st round (July, 2004 – June, 2005) by the National Sample Survey Organisation (NSSO) in the Ministry of Statistics and Programme Implementation, http://mospi.nic.in/press_note_510-Final.htm:
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Progress in Elementary Education since 1999 Source: RGI; SES, MHRD Growth of Educational Institutions since 1999 Source: SES, MHRD From the table below, one can decipher that although enrolment of both boys and girls has increased in between 1999-2000 and 2004-2005, yet there exist gender disparities in enrolment. Sex-wise Enrolment by Stages, 1999-2000 to 2003-04 Source: SES, MHRD…
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KEY TRENDS • The biggest school feeding programmes are in India (114 million), Brazil (47 million), the United States (45 million) and China (26 million). India has a universal school meals programmes. It’s school feeding programme ranks 12th among 35 lower-middle-income countries covering 79 percent of its total number of school-going children $ • In 2010-11, the…
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The key findings of the World Food Programme’s brief titled ICDS — Tracking State Government Response to COVID-19: January to April 2021, released in April 2021 (please click here to access): • Since March 2020, World Food Programme (WFP) has been monitoring the implementation of ICDS at the State and UT level in response to the COVID-19 crisis. WFP…
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The key findings of the World Food Programme’s brief titled School Meals in India — Tracking State Government Response to COVID-19: January to March 2021, released in 2021 (please click here to access): • The World Food Programme (WFP) has been monitoring the COVID-MDM response through tracking and documenting the response across States since March 2020 and this…
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