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  14 lakh people in Bihar not getting benefits under food security act: Paswan

  India | April 23, 2020 17:43 IST

  The consumer affairs, food and public distribution minister said that the NFSA is supposed to cover 71 crore people across the country.

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  Food reforms on the cards, subsidised grains may be limited to 40% of population only

  Politics | February 02, 2015 9:51 IST

  New Delhi: Prime Minister Narendra Modi's office is looking to amend the National Food Security Act.PMO has asked for a plan to implement the recommendations of a top panel that has suggested sweeping food reforms

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  Congress flays BJP govt on suggestion to cut in Food Security Act coverage

  Politics | January 24, 2015 19:26 IST

  New Delhi: An official committee's report recommending a drastic cut in the coverage of the ambitious Food Security Act today gave fodder to Congress to attack government as “anti-poor” saying the move would hit hard

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  Mamata Banerjee flays Centre over food security act

  India | June 30, 2014 16:39 IST

  Kolkata: Blaming the Centre for the non-implementation of the Food Security Act in West Bengal so far, Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee Monday said the union government has failed to put in place a proper law

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  Bihar has lifted only half of foodgrain quota: Paswan

  Politics | June 08, 2014 17:46 IST

  Patna: Claiming that the Bihar government has adopted a lackadaisical approach towards implementation of the Food Security Act in the state, Union Food and Public Distribution Minister Ramvilas Paswan today said it has availed only

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  Naveen ridicules Congress over Food Security Act, targets BJP

  Politics | April 12, 2014 19:01 IST

  Bhubaneswar: Terming Congress and BJP as “anti-Odisha”, ruling BJD supremo Naveen Patnaik today ridiculed Congress for implementing Food Security Act just before expiry of the UPA government's tenure at the Centre.“Though the Congress in its

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  Jaiswal presses for implementation of food security act in UP

  India | November 19, 2013 8:12 IST

  Kanpur: Union Minister Sriprakash Jaiswal yesterday demanded that the Food Security Act be implemented in Uttar Pradesh, saying that the people of the state had been left out from getting benefits of the central scheme. 

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  Government notifies Food Security Act

  India | September 15, 2013 13:01 IST

  New Delhi: Government has notified the landmark food security legislation, giving a legal right on highly subsidised foodgrains to 67 per cent of the country's population.The Lok Sabha had passed the Bill on August 26,