At last food distribution schemes are here

The granaries of the government were full and overflowing but people were without food as economic policies had failed. At last,the food Security Bill,will soon be implemented. This will give our masses access to nutritional food at affordable prices. The legal right to food is now made reality. The cost of this scheme would be 1.5 lakh crore of Rupees annually.It will ensure food for top priority group comprising of 46% of rural India and 28% of urban India who are under the poverty line. Although the category of poverty line has not been defined yet, the provision will give 7Kg of food grains per month per person for the poor at the rate of 3Rupees per Kg of rice, wheat at 2Rupees per Kg and coarse grains at 1Kg.There will be free lunches for vulnerable group of people. By 2013, these schemes would be fully functioning. With population so huge,this will be like feeding the fish in the ocean. The government will have to procure grains in great quantities.Other activities of the government will get less attention now. The classification of benefactors may take even more time, the groups will be determined by 'socio-economic and caste' census. This would be similar to the recommendations given by the National Advisory Council.

To obtain the rations of food grains,people would have to be informed of this; and people in remote regions will have to move to distributing centres to receive the state's subsidies. 

This cannot become a long term scheme.It would only be an 'adhoc' policy to solve food scarcity. The real solution is to make the poor to be able to afford food, medicine and shelter. Housing for the poor and medicines for the poor are yet to be thought about by the government.These are also basic needs of the poor.All these needs should to be fulfilled; we cannot allow people to live in the streets or die without medicines. Pharma industries flourish in India but there are crores of people without medicines.Builders are making many residential complexes and infrastructural expansion is phenomenal.But the poor don't have even a tent to live in...Some attention should be given for providing shelters and providing medicines too, along with food.