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Feb 21, 2024 · Objectives of the National Food Security Act. The Act provides for food and nutritional security in the human life cycle approach, by ensuring access to an adequate quantity of quality food at affordable prices for people to live a life with dignity and for matters connected therewith or incidental thereto.
- The Act provides for food and nutritional security in the human life cycle approach, by ensuring access to an adequate quantity of quality food at...
- It will boost the agricultural sector. A boost in the agricultural sector would result in more job opportunities, as agriculture is a labour-intens...
- The Act covers two-thirds of the entire population under two categories of beneficiaries: 1. Antyodaya Anna Yojana (AAY) households 2. Priority H...
NFSA. National Food Security Act, (NFSA) 2013. Download Act. The basic concept of food security globally is to ensure that all people, at all times, should get access to the basic food for their active and healthy life and is characterized by availability, access, utilization and stability of food.
Government of India. Signed. 10 September 2013; 10 years ago. ( 10 September 2013) Status: In force. The National Food Security Act 2013, also known as Right to Food Act, is an Indian Act of Parliament which aims to provide subsidized food grains to approximately two thirds of the country's 1.4 billion people. [1]
Mar 2, 2021 · National Food Security Act (NFSA), 2013 Notified on: 10 th September, 2013. Objective: To provide for food and nutritional security in the human life cycle approach, by ensuring access to adequate quantities of quality food at affordable prices to people to live a life with dignity.
Jan 11, 2022 · The National Food Security Act, 2013 aims to provide subsidized food grains to approximately two-third of the country’s 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:
Jul 12, 2019 · Food security, as defined by the United Nations’ Committee on World Food Security, means that all people, at all times, have physical, social, and economic access to sufficient, safe, and nutritious food that meets their food preferences and dietary needs for an active and healthy life.
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Sep 1, 2020 · The Preamble of the Act reads as “ An Act to provide for food and nutritional security in human life cycle approach, by ensuring access to adequate quantity of quality food at affordable prices to people to live a life with dignity and for matters connected therewith or incidental thereto”.
