Food Policy
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Look beyond just stocking foodgrains
Yoginder K Alagh
Under ideal conditions, grain storage options in India are built up from the buffer stock strategies. These, in turn, are derived from fluctuations in grain output and the need to ride through, say, two bad years.
09/09/2010
Financial Express (New Delhi)
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In Left-ruled Bengal, 97% PDS outlets pvt-owned: SC panel
New Delhi: The Left parties may talk against privatization of the social sector but in their bastion, West Bengal, 97.5% of the anganwadis are served by contractors, 97% of the fair prices shops are privately owned, and the nutrition and food schemes are in disarray.
08/09/2010
Times Of India (New Delhi)
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Allow institutions with better capacity to handle food distribution
NEW DELHI: Rotting grain violate the sanctity of food and the people's right to it, Navdanya, an NGO, said here on Tuesday.
Criticising Prime Minister Manmohan Singh's statement that distribution of free grain would be anti-farmer, the NGO said that, on the contrary, farmers who were ready to harvest their kharif crop would be hurt if the government did not procure enough because it lacked adeq
08/09/2010
Hindu (New Delhi)
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Tripura gets tough against chemical contamination of food
Agartala, Sept 7: To prevent rampant use of chemicals in food items for preservation, the Tripura Health Department has initiated a move to impart training to food inspectors to implement the Food Safety Standards Act 2006.
Director, Health Service (Preventive Medicine) Dr R K Dhar said here today that Calcium Carbide was being used for preservation and early ripening of fruits while Melamine and
08/09/2010
Sentinel (Guwahati)
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Foodgrains order will hit farmers, impact food security: Govt to SC
Krishnadas Rajagopal The Union Food Ministry today told the Supreme Court that its suggestion on limiting food procurement to available storage facilities, if put to action, would hit the poor farmer and “drastically impact food security of the nation”.
07/09/2010
Indian Express (New Delhi)
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Free Grain To 37% Population Will Kill Farmers’ Incentive
PM TELLS SC TO LAY OFF POLICY ISSUES
New Delhi: Prime Minister Manmohan Singh on Monday virtually ticked off the Supreme Court, saying that it “should not get into policy formation”.
07/09/2010
Times Of India (New Delhi)
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SC order on grain will impact food security, argues Centre
Krishnadas Rajagopal
New Delhi: Hours after Prime Minister Manmohan Singh asked the Supreme Court not to get into ‘the realm of policy formulation’, the Union food ministry said the court suggestion to limit food procurement to the extent of available storage facilities, if put to action, would hit the poor farmer and ‘drastically impact the food security of the nation’.
In a 19-page affidav
07/09/2010
Financial Express (New Delhi)
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Food Corporation of India sees Food Rights Day visitors
The office of Food Corporation of India’s (FCI) manager in Reay Road had some unlikely visitors on Monday morning.
07/09/2010
Daily News Analysis (Mumbai)
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Order on free grain to poor can't be executed: Manmohan Singh
Siddharth Varadarajan
“Supreme Court should not go into realm of policy formulation”
New Delhi: The government will do all it can to provide affordable food to those below the poverty line but cannot implement the Supreme Court's order to give free foodgrains to the poor, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh said on Monday.
In an interaction with a small group of editors at his residence — his f
07/09/2010
Hindu (New Delhi)
