ABSTRACT
The National Food Security Bill 2011, which is now on the website of the Union Ministry of Food and Consumer Affairs for public comments, aims to make the Right to Food a legal right. When finally enacted, the Food Security Bill will be the brightest jewel in the crown of Indian democracy. The draft Bill mentions that its aim is to provide for food and nutritional security in human life-cycle approach by ensuring access to adequate quantity of quality food at affordable prices, for people to live a life with dignity. Therefore, government has confined the legal right only to economic access with reference to certain quantities of grain, like rice, wheat, and nutricereals such as ragi, bajra, jowar, maize, etc. The differentiated rights relate to quantity and cost of the food to be provided to the general category of citizens who are not in need of the same kind of social support as those listed under the priority category.
