Cabinet clears food ordinance
July 03, 2013 18:24
The other big news story of the day: The Cabinet has cleared the Food Ordinance. The government called for a cabinet meeting and
cleared the ordinance, believed to be top most on its agenda. Facing opposition from allies and opposition parties the Samajwadi
Party, the Left parties and Agriculture Minister Sharad Pawar, Prime
Minister Manmohan Singh had on June 13 deferred a proposal to consider the
ordinance route to give effect to the bill for its passage in
parliament.