So what is gathering your attention on all the major News Channels apart from the plummeting Rupee value, which by far has reached 64? I wonder is it because we have named all the underwears- Dollar, Euro after them? May be. Well, something more that has caught on with much faster pace is the Food Security Bill Act 2013. I presumably understand, that not a few, but there are many who don't know what is it all about. Same goes with majority of parties who are creating a ruckus in the Parliament over it. I don't blame the ignorance. Though various parties have curtained off the bill by strongly opposing it and demanding for amendments, we need to channelize our thoughts if this bill can be the saving grace for those who cant afford a one-time meal.Parties need to choose people first and then their ambitions. Throwing down fists in disagreement and blackmailing the Government over walkout on the bill is not the way the National parties show their displeasure or work in the best interests of the nation.
Food Security Bill Act 2013- aims at providing food and nutritional security in human life cycle approach by ensuring access to food grains at affordable prices.Some of the provisions listed under it are providing 5kg food grains like wheat,rice per person to priority households at subsidized prices under which 75 % of rural population and 50 % of urban population would be covered, meal free of charge during pregnancy and six months after child birth, maternity benefit of not less than six thousand rupees in installments, free meals to children of age six months to six years, six to fourteen one mid day meal, incase of non-supply of food-grains,there will be food allowances.
It impresses you right? For once you think this is that one Bill which might just cater to the needs of those millions who die out of hunger and malnutrition. It brings a ray of Hope from that far distant land, but will it reach them ? Or this time too, the clouds of corruption devour it? For most of us who end up having three meals a day or like the lady on the TV who advises on reducing weight,"Have five-six small meals.", this Bill is nothing to think about, nothing to fight for. May be this one too, like many such bills in the past, create a High tide wave and then fade away squashing the hopes of the voiceless.Or gather dust in some file in some dilapidated Government office. It may not affect our comfortable lives but let us take it with a pinch of salt that the number it does, is more than you can count on your fingers.
To put it in words of Mahatma Gandhi,
"There are people in the world so hungry, that God cannot appear to them except in the form of bread." So, Let us not take their God from them.
Food Security Bill Act 2013- aims at providing food and nutritional security in human life cycle approach by ensuring access to food grains at affordable prices.Some of the provisions listed under it are providing 5kg food grains like wheat,rice per person to priority households at subsidized prices under which 75 % of rural population and 50 % of urban population would be covered, meal free of charge during pregnancy and six months after child birth, maternity benefit of not less than six thousand rupees in installments, free meals to children of age six months to six years, six to fourteen one mid day meal, incase of non-supply of food-grains,there will be food allowances.
It impresses you right? For once you think this is that one Bill which might just cater to the needs of those millions who die out of hunger and malnutrition. It brings a ray of Hope from that far distant land, but will it reach them ? Or this time too, the clouds of corruption devour it? For most of us who end up having three meals a day or like the lady on the TV who advises on reducing weight,"Have five-six small meals.", this Bill is nothing to think about, nothing to fight for. May be this one too, like many such bills in the past, create a High tide wave and then fade away squashing the hopes of the voiceless.Or gather dust in some file in some dilapidated Government office. It may not affect our comfortable lives but let us take it with a pinch of salt that the number it does, is more than you can count on your fingers.
To put it in words of Mahatma Gandhi,
"There are people in the world so hungry, that God cannot appear to them except in the form of bread." So, Let us not take their God from them.
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