{"id":160757,"date":"2022-01-11T21:01:20","date_gmt":"2022-01-11T15:31:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.forumias.com\/?p=160757"},"modified":"2022-01-11T21:01:20","modified_gmt":"2022-01-11T15:31:20","slug":"answered-what-are-the-salient-features-of-the-national-food-security-act-2013-how-has-the-food-security-bill-helped-in-eliminating-hunger-and-malnutrition-in-india","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/answered-what-are-the-salient-features-of-the-national-food-security-act-2013-how-has-the-food-security-bill-helped-in-eliminating-hunger-and-malnutrition-in-india\/","title":{"rendered":"[Answered] What are the salient features of the National Food Security Act 2013? How has the Food security Bill helped in eliminating hunger and malnutrition in India?"},"content":{"rendered":"

The National Food Security Act, 2013 aims to provide subsidized food grains to approximately two-third of the country\u2019s population. The enactment of this landmark legislation, brought a paradigm shift in approach to food security, from welfare to rights-based approach. The salient features of the act are as:<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

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  1. Coverage and entitlement: Up to 75% of rural and 50% of the urban population will be covered under TPDS, with uniform entitlement of 5kg\/person\/month ration.<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n
  2. Identification of households: The work of identification of eligible households is to be done by States\/UTS.<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n
  3. Maternity benefit: Pregnant Women and Lactating Mothers (PWLM) are entitled to receive maternity benefits of not less than 6000 rupees.<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n
  4. Nutritional support: PWLM and children in the age group of 6 months to 14 years will be entitled to meals as per prescribed nutritional norms under ICDS, MDM (PM-Poshan).<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n
  5. Women empowerment: Eldest women of the household of age 18 years or above to be deemed as head of the household for the purpose of issuing ration cards.<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n
  6. Grievance Redressal: Act calls for dedicated mechanism for grievance redressal at district and state level.<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n
  7. Transparency\/Accountability: Provisions regarding social audits, setting up of vigilance committees, disclosure of PDS records etc.<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n
  8. Food security allowance: It is entitled to the beneficiaries in case of non-supply of entitled food grains or meals.<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    Role of NFSA in eliminating hunger and malnutrition:\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n

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    1. According to a UN report number of undernourished people in India has declined by 60 million between 2006 to 2019.<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n
    2. Improved access to food grains have improved the hunger outcomes amongst the poor and underprivileged.<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n
    3. Wide coverage of the 2\/3<\/span>rd<\/span>\u00a0population have increased resilience in the poor against income shocks.<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n
    4. Stunting in children under 5 years of age, according to the UN report have decreased from 47.8% in 2012 to 34.7% in 2019.<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n
    5. Monetary compensation has compensated against wage loss during pregnancy. PWLM can now access to healthier food options like fruits, vegetables etc.<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n
    6. The awareness generated by the Asha workers have increased the number of infants who were exclusively breastfed from 11.2 million in 2012 to 13.9 million in 2019.<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

      However, there is still a long way for India to reach nutritional sufficiency as:\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n

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      1. Number of women in reproductive age suffering from anaemia grew from 165.6million in 2012 to 175.6 million in 2019.<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n
      2. The CNNS have highlighted prevalence of hunger\/malnutrition in India children.<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n
      3. The number of obese adults in India grew from 25.2 million in 2012 to 34.3 million in 2016.<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n
      4. Institutional infrastructure for delivering the provisions of the food bill is poor.<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n
      5. Widespread corruption has siphoned off the benefits to ghost beneficiaries and middlemen.<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

        The food bill has revolutionized the access to food grains; however, the need is to move towards nutritional security and not just food security. Further the structural bottlenecks in the implementation food bill should be corrected by leverage of technology.<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

        The National Food Security Act, 2013 aims to provide subsidized food grains to approximately two-third of the country\u2019s population. The enactment of this landmark legislation, brought a paradigm shift in approach to food security, from welfare to rights-based approach. The salient features of the act are as:\u00a0 Coverage and entitlement: Up to 75% of rural… Continue reading [Answered] What are the salient features of the National Food Security Act 2013? How has the Food security Bill helped in eliminating hunger and malnutrition in India?<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10320,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-160757","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-public","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":{"total":238,"cached_at":"","cached_date":1699330276},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/160757","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10320"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=160757"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/160757\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=160757"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=160757"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=160757"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}