India: Amartya Sen argues for the strengthening of the Food Security Bill

March 21, 2013

Ankur Sohanpal

The Food Security Bill, currently under consideration in the Parliament plans to provide food subsidies to almost 70 per cent of the nation. Various shortcomings have been pointed out by states, critics and opposition. However, Nobel Laureate Amartya Sen applauded the government’s recognition of the problem, yet pointed a number of fallacies of the bill, urging the government to strengthen the bill according to these. Read more here.