1. Food security means : availability, accessibility and
affordability of food to all people at alltimes. 2. The National
Food Security Act, 2013 aims toprovide for food and nutritional
security inhuman life cycle approach, by ensuringaccess to adequate
quantity of quality food ataffordable prices to people to live a
life withdignity. 3. Need for Food Security: For the poor sections
of the society Natural disasters or calamity like
earthquake,drought, flood, tsunami, Widespread crop failure due to
drought 4. How drought affects foodsecurityDrought takes
placeTotalproduction of foodgrainsShortage of food in theaffected
areasPricesSome peoplecannot afford to buy food = FoodInsecurity 5.
Starvation If such calamity happens in a very wide spread areaor is
stretched over a longer time period, it maycause a situation of
starvation. 6. Famine0 A massive starvation might take a turn of
famine.0 A Famine is characterized by1. widespread deaths and2.
epidemics 7. Famines and Starvation Deaths in India Bengal Famine,
1943-killed 1.5 million to 3 million The Bihar famine, 1966-7-
2,353 deaths due to starvation reportedStarvation deaths have also
been reported in:1. Kalahandi and Kashipur in Orissa2. Baran
district of Rajasthan,3. Palamau district of Jharkhandand many
other remote areas during the recentyears. 8. Worst affected group
Landless people Traditional artisans Homeless, beggars Family
employed in ill-paid occupation Casual labourers( seasonal
activity+ low wages) Migrants( natural disaster) Women's and
children 9. Uttar Pradesh (eastern and south-easternparts),
Bihar,Jharkhand,Orissa,West Bengal,Chattisgarh,parts of Madhya
Pradesh andMaharasthra 10. GLOBAL HUNGER INDEX201230.0, extremely
alarming20-29.9, alarming10.0-19.9, serious1.5-9.9, low to moderate
hungerNo dataExcluded from GHI 11. ChronicHunger Due
agriculturalInadequatediet for along timePoor peoplesuffer
fromchronichungeractivities-ruralregions & urbanareas-
casuallabourWhen a personis unable to getwork for theentire
yearSeasonalHunger 12. INDIAS FOOD SECURITY
SYSTEMBufferStockPublicDistributionSystemFoodSecuritySystemof India
13. CONTD Maximum under nutrition in thefive Indian states (UNICEF)
Uttar Pradesh Madhya Pradesh Bihar Rajasthan Orissa 14. 0 India
ranked 10th largest Economy of world on nominal GDP basis and
3rdlargest on economy on PPP basisBut India has.. 29% of the 872.9
million undernourished people (FAO 2009) 49% of the worlds
underweight children (WHO 2009) 34% of the worlds stunted children
(WHO 2009) India is ranked 67 way below neighboring countrieslike
China, Nepal & Pakistan (2011 Global Hunger Index IFPRI)0
According to the latest data on child under nutrition from 200510,
India rankedsecond to last on child underweight out of 129
countries below Ethiopia,Niger, Nepal, and Bangladesh. Only
Timor-Leste had a higher rate of underweightchildren 15.
2321-Oct-14 16. Continuance of Antyodaya AnnaYojana (AAY)
Protection to 2.43crore poorest of poor families underthe Antodaya
Anna Yojana (AAY) tosupply of 35 kg foodgrains per monthper family
would continue. Bill seeks to utilize already
existinginfrastructures like PDS andaganwadis. This has
preventedfurther wastage of money to developthe infrastructures.
17. FOOD SECURITY ALLOWACES In case of non-supply of the
entitledquantities of foodgrains such persons shall beentitled to
receive such food securityallowance from State Government.SPECIAL
FOCUS ON NUTRITIONALSUPPORT TO WOMEN ANDCHILDREN This scheme will
be benefiting all pregnantwomen and lactating mothers with
increasedamount of Rs. 6000/- Children in the age group of 6 months
to 14years will be entitled to take home ration orhot cooked food
as per prescribed nutritionalnorms 18. 100 million schoolchildren
are eligiblefor hot meal; 50 millionare getting the meals;of which
27 millionalso get the 4-in-onehealth package.The scheme doesnot
provide meals tothose who does notattend the school. 19. To ensure
success of Food Security in India we have to achieve the Food
ProductionTargets and improve the efficiency of public distribution
system. Provide food security to 75% people in rural and 50% in
urban area at minimal cost Improve food availability to rural and
needy people in country. Improve purchasing power Reduce
malnutrition in children's Special provision for pregnant women and
children's which ultimately improve their lifestyle. It also
enhance food subsidy nearly about Rs.1,24,724 crore in initial year
Increase corruption Government should strengthen already existing
programme such as RKVY, mid day meal,MNAREGA Learn from
Chhattisgarh food security system In future it may happen that
country have to import huge quantity of food grain . 20. There are
people in the world so hungry, that God cannot appear to themexcept
in the form of bread.Mahatma Gandhi (1869-1948)
