Right to Food Campaign unhappy with the Union Budget

July 12, 2014 11:01

Activists are attacking the Modi government and accusing Prime Minister Narendra Modi of doublespeak when it comes to the National Food Security Act, 2013.

The Right to Food campaigners said they were flummoxed over the silence of Arun Jaitley on the issue in his Budget speech. They said that this silence was in sharp contrast to the Bharatiya Janata Party's pre-election manifesto. "This is in sharp contrast to the BJP's pre-election manifesto. BJP has always held that universal food security is integral to national security. It had always said that the right to food does not remain an Act on paper or a political rhetoric,' said Kavita Srivastava, convenor of Right to Food Campaign.

It said that the government showed no urgency in the implementation of the National Food Security Act. In a statement, the organisation said the budget made an allocation of Rs 1.15 lakh crore for food subsidy, which though higher than the food subsidy last year, was nowhere close to what was required to implement NFSA across the country.

It also added that the recent decision of extending the deadline for the Act's implementation by three months is a violation of NFSA.

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