Food Security Ordinance

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  As Centre Moves Quietly to Replace Subsidised Foodgrain With Cash, States Object

  Even as the government finds itself under fire for the Land Acquisition Ordinance, there are now concerns over whether it is choosing a backdoor route of making food subsidy payments by cash transfers.

• Food Security Bill: Explain hurry over bill, says BJP to Centre

  The BJP today tore into the government for rushing to get its Food Security Bill through, calling its decision to bring an ordinance unconstitutional.

• Will disruptions stall Sonia Gandhi's Food Bill pitch in Parliament?

  Congress president Sonia Gandhi is likely to make a rare speech in Parliament if the government's flagship Food Security Bill is discussed in the Lok Sabha today. The Bill was tabled in Parliament last week but has not been taken up for discussion due to repeated disruptions.

• Narendra Modi writes to PM against Food Bill, wants meet of Chief Ministers

  Narendra Modi has written to the Prime Minister to oppose the government's flagship new scheme to entitle nearly 70 per cent of India's population to subsidised food, intended as a major vote-getter in the national election, due by May.

• Food Security Bill to be discussed in Parliament today

  The Rs 1.25 lakh crore welfare scheme to give cheap food to nearly 70 per cent of the population is billed as the centre-piece of the Congress's plan to win a third term in the next year's general elections.

• Arunachal Pradesh okays Food Security Ordinance

  The Arunachal Pradesh cabinet has approved implementation of the National Food Security Ordinance in the state which is slated to be launched on August 20 next, initially in three circles.

• Monsoon session of Parliament

  A heavy agenda including the ordinance on the Food Security Bill awaits the Monsoon session of Parliament beginning today.

• 44 bills in 16 days of monsoon session: is government being too ambitious?

  The monsoon session of Parliament begins today. It comprises of just 16 working days, but has 44 bills listed, including the food ordinance, that the UPA government is keen to pass as a bill urgently.

• Food Ordinance 'most important', says Prime Minister Manmohan Singh ahead of Monsoon session

  Lamenting that lot of time has been wasted in the last two to three Parliament sessions, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh today asked the opposition to cooperate in the passage of the legislative business including the "most important" ordinance on Food security bill.

• Jayalalithaa writes to Prime Minister seeking changes to Food Security Ordinance

  Tamil Nadu Chief Minister J Jayalalithaa today wrote to Prime Minister Manmohan Singh seeking five amendments to the Food Security Ordinance.

• Jayalalithaa demands five changes to 'Food Insecurity Ordinance'

  Tamil Nadu Chief Minister J Jayalalithaa today wrote to Prime Minister Manmohan Singh seeking five amendments to the Food Security Ordinance.

• Supreme Court rejects PIL challenging Congress's food security legislation

  In a major boost for the proposed legislation, scheduled to be fiercely debated in the monsoon session of the Parliament beginning August 5, the top court said, "The Act is an instrument in ensuring the needy people get food subsided rates."

• Satisfied with Food Security ordinance, says Nitish Kumar

  Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar today voiced his support for the Congress-led UPA government's flagship programme, the Food Security scheme. Interestingly, the support came after the recent breaking of ties between Mr Kumar's Janata Dal (United) and the BJP.

• Monsoon Session of Parliament to begin on August 5: sources

  The monsoon session of the Parliament is scheduled to be held from August 5 to August 30, government sources said today. The session is crucial in the backdrop of the United Progressive Alliance (UPA) government having recently passed the food security ordinance, which now needs the parliamentary ratification to become an Act.

• Nitish Kumar on Narendra Modi: 'The cat is out of the bag'

  With the Congress in overdrive mode today in countering Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi's theory that when in trouble, the Congress "hides behind the burqa (veil) of secularism," they found some support from the BJP's former ally Nitish Kumar.