Govt committed to pass Food Bill in this session of Parliament: Thomas
Union minister of state for food and civil supplies K V Thomas has
said that the Union government is committed to pass the National Food
Security Bill in this session of Parliament. The session is to reconvene
on April 22.
“Food security remains the greatest challenge for modern India, where the population is expected to touch the 1.3 billion mark by 2020. The Bill is to be tabled in Parliament and is intended to give legal entitlement to around 82 crore population of the country,” he said, while addressing a session on India’s Food Security and Second Green Revolution at CII’s Annual General Meeting here on Wednesday.
He stated that 6.53 crore BPL families and 18 crore APL families would get benefit by means of TPDS or Targeted Public Distribution System through five lakh fair price shops.
And to check the system works properly, appropriate grievance redressal mechanism was being developed wherein improvement like Aadhar or biometric- based identification system was started in certain parts of the country.
He added that the procurement was expected to go up this year with wheat increasing by 6-8 million tonne than previous year’s 38 million tonne. Around 150 million tonne of modern storage facilities are planned to accommodate the procurement.
He, however, appear distressed from the fact that currently 1 lakh crore subsidy was given on public distribution system, which was likely to go up by 1.33 lakh crore after the passing of the Food Security Bill.
Earlier, Anand Sharma, minister for commerce and trade, while speaking on Future of India’s Industrialisation informed that sufficient progress has been made with respect to GST.
“It will soon become a reality,” he said, while adding that this move would add 2 per cent growth to the GDP besides reducing several hurdles in business functions.
It is pertinent to mention that the industry was expecting GST implementation for some time particularly in this year’s Union Budget, which would streamline the various tax regimes in the country.
“Food security remains the greatest challenge for modern India, where the population is expected to touch the 1.3 billion mark by 2020. The Bill is to be tabled in Parliament and is intended to give legal entitlement to around 82 crore population of the country,” he said, while addressing a session on India’s Food Security and Second Green Revolution at CII’s Annual General Meeting here on Wednesday.
He stated that 6.53 crore BPL families and 18 crore APL families would get benefit by means of TPDS or Targeted Public Distribution System through five lakh fair price shops.
And to check the system works properly, appropriate grievance redressal mechanism was being developed wherein improvement like Aadhar or biometric- based identification system was started in certain parts of the country.
He added that the procurement was expected to go up this year with wheat increasing by 6-8 million tonne than previous year’s 38 million tonne. Around 150 million tonne of modern storage facilities are planned to accommodate the procurement.
He, however, appear distressed from the fact that currently 1 lakh crore subsidy was given on public distribution system, which was likely to go up by 1.33 lakh crore after the passing of the Food Security Bill.
Earlier, Anand Sharma, minister for commerce and trade, while speaking on Future of India’s Industrialisation informed that sufficient progress has been made with respect to GST.
“It will soon become a reality,” he said, while adding that this move would add 2 per cent growth to the GDP besides reducing several hurdles in business functions.
It is pertinent to mention that the industry was expecting GST implementation for some time particularly in this year’s Union Budget, which would streamline the various tax regimes in the country.
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