About National Food Security Bill

Parliament passed the National Food Security Bill for ensuring food and nutritional security to the people. It gives right to the people to receive adequate quantity of food grains at affordable prices. Upto 75% of the rural population and upto 50% of the urban population will have uniform entitlement of 5kg food grains per month at highly subsidized prices of Rs.3, Rs. 2, Re. 1 per kg. for rice, wheat, coarse grains respectively. It will entitle about two thirds of our 1.2 billion population to subsidized foodgrain sunder the Targeted Public Distribution System (TPDS).