
Gujarat and Chattisgarh strengthen PDS and thus Below Poverty Line (BPL) families get rice at 2 rupees and wheat at rupees 3 respectively for last 10 years. The larger question arises when these states manages to give 35 Kilo grams, why FSB which gives 25 kilo grams be taken into value? States like Tamil Nadu give 20 Kilos of rice free per family, whats the need to implement another bill in the states which have surplus amount of natural resources and farming? In chattisgarh, Under Antyodaya scheme, 1 million household get 35Kgs of rice at 1 rupees per kg, while 1 million BPL families are give same quantity at 2 rupees. 2kgms of pulses and gram are also supplied through PDS. Interestingly, Iodised salts are also given to BPL and extremely poor classes. Thus the state managed to create its own model. before 7 years malnourishment rate was 54% and now it dropped to 38.8%, while the national capital has 49.2% and Bihar has 82%. On the other hand, In Gujarat, technology has been used to prevent smuggling of grains by unauthorized Ration cards. In the state, ration cards are granted only to those people having Election Photo Identity card.

The move to introduce the bill may well affect PDS, now PDS is regarded as an institution without a clear mandate where 45% of grains go to the black market and middlemen. Qualities of grains are of prime concern and wasting of grains. With implementation FSB, commodities will find its way easy to the black market and farmers will have to pay for it. More suicides will rock the nation. Farmers may shift to other crops which may result in shortage of grains. If the bill gets implemented it will create another hundred heaps of waste grains. In economic terms, current account deficit and fiscal deficit will reach its top and well destruct the stock markets and the service sector. India’s current GDP is 4.8 and dollar-rupee indexes are of all time low. More subsidies will literally rotten the Indian Development Story and create a new political spectrum of new populist measures. It will be interesting to see hoe FICCI and CII responds to the FSB, as Corporate India will find it hard to get loans to elaborate their expansion.
Thus the sense of dismal is there everywhere, if the FSB gets implemented, forget about Indian development story but India’s malnourishment rates will settle, now, even when regarded as second most fast growing economy after china, India’s malnourishment rate is poorer than sub-Saharan countries. It’s a fact that when we have an inclusive development, GDP will increase, job rates will increase and here Human development Index will increase. It will also reduce poverty and malnourishment. But for political gain spending 1.25 lakh crore is unjustified. Thus India’s growth model will be hailed by the nations across the globe. But not with Food Security Bill but with improvement of existing systems including Public Distribution System. Stopping all its leakages and strict review of the system can improve its functions and the nation will get prosperous...........
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