New Food Scheme

Now the ‘Food Security Bill’ will provide food stuffs to two-thirds of the Indian population by subsidizing grains and pulses. Five kilo grams of grains per person and one kilo gram of pulses will be given. Rice would be available at 3 Rupees per kilo gram and wheat at 2 Rupees per kilo gram. It is up to the different states how they are going to distribute the food. It is also is up to the various states to determine who is poor.
Why do we redistribute food grains? There is much inequality among the people. How did this land become this way? The hierarchy of landowners s and the poor peasantry was always there. People lived with this inequality. But now we are questioning this. And we are creating changes, so that growth is inclusive. We want to make sure that the poor get food. We do not want the poor to live with complete deprivation.
Vast India had always supported the people living in its land, because the soil was extremely fertile, the climate was warm and water was always available (in rivers, streams, canals and wells). And people were hard working agriculturalists, food was plentiful. There were only few times in history when we had famines. The population cannot grow bigger than the land that could support it. The poor died the natural death by hunger, when the rich accumulated a big amount of grains in their granaries and deprived the poor of the grains. But if the poor were all gone, then who would work to make the next harvest possible. The poor landless laborer would not have died of starvation. So redistribution of grains was done in the old times, so that the poor had some food to pull on.With mass production of food with modernization technology, we have plenty to feed all the people. And now we have made schemes for this. There will be no starvation. And there will be greater equality. So future is bright for the people of India.