National Food Security Bill 2013

Historic National Food Security Bill 2013 has been passed. The lower house (Lok Sabha) has passed the bill. It will go to the upper house(Rajya Sabha) now. Now 70% of the population will get food grains at subsidized (affordable) price. It will cost 1.3 lakh crores of Rupees to the government but it will give the poor people great relief. There were so many hurdles that we had thought we may not be able to pass it, but we did it. This is the biggest good news for all of us. One big crisis is solved. Open poverty... hungry people will not be seen from now on.  Food is only one of the basic needs. We need to provide shelter(clean living spaces), health facilities and crime-free environment too. Till that is done poverty cannot be erased. We have a long way to go.....