The National Advisory Council has given its final proposals on the proposed National Food Security Act. A government-appointed committee (the Rangarajan Committee) has also given its response to these proposals. Both these proposals agree on the desirability of a universal nfsa but finally propose targeting at the poor as defined by the Tendulkar Committee.

The National Advisory Council (NAC) which was entrusted with the task of formulating the first draft of the proposed National Food Security Act (NFSA) finally came out with its recommendations.

This paper presents the result of an exercise prepared for the Planning Commission