Sonia- Fiasco in food Security Bill

Sonia Gandhi who heads the National Advisory  Council vetted out her dream of implementing Food Security for the poverty driven people of India. Her Pet Project which had been in her closet ever since the UPA II came into power. The only Visionary of the country decided to unleash her dream in bringing  the food security  bill which was unanimously passed by her devoted Cabinet to the standing committee for further deliberations( God knows what) and it will be introduced in Parliament in the next couple of days.


The Idea of the Bill is to eradicate poverty through Public Distribution system from the Center. For any common man in suburbs,villages even in metro they might consider this to be an excellent scheme which benefits the poorest of the poor.


Having defined its objective every Indian would accept or strive to eradicate poverty. But the larger point is whether this Bill would fulfill the objective?




As per the NAC and their Intellectuals this proposed Bill would cover 76% of the rural and 46% of the Urban population would be benefited. These figures vary within the congress ministers and no one has the scientific data to prove their Figures. So we are talking in general perceptions

Renowned Scientist M.S swaminathan feeels the PDS followed by Tamil Nadu and Kerala need to be taken as a role model and be implemented in all states. So in other words the PDS has be decentralized wherein the state has better mechanism to see that the needy deserve their due. As center do not have accuracy in terms of numbers and confusion in framing of the Bill leaders like Ms.Jayalalitha strongly objected to it..

Th above cartoon is the courtesy of http://blogs.hindustantimes.com/dabs-and-jabs/tag/rahul-gandhi/

With this Proposed Bill Every state would be additionally burdened of about 1800 crore per annum with no Statutory Commitment from the Center. It also imposes a minimum of 93000 crore on the center.

So what Sonia trying to do 1) Implement something which can be handled better by the states
                                         2) Implement it from center by incurring huge financial burden
                                         3) Newer methods and means for large scale scams.
                                         4) It also transgresses into State Domain


The world  knows Congress would never miss an opportunity when it comes to a little scope of making money, they would seize the opportunity to make the  most wealth of it.

Scientist and other surveys agree with growth slowing and consequently revenues not matching up to expectations, additional expenditures will keep the government away from the path of fiscal consolidation. Even Sharad Pawar is against this bill and has his own apprehensions.


India is heading into state elections this year, with poor and rural Uttar Pradesh, India’s most populous state, the biggest prize in the run-up to national elections of 2014. The state is of special importance to Congress as Rahul Gandhi, son of party boss Sonia Gandhi, drives the party’s campaign there.

Congress has been on the back foot over a spate of corruption scandals. Dissension within the ruling coalition and the party itself have prevented it from pushing through key reforms.

Programs that help the rural poor, like one launched in 2006 that guarantees a minimum amount of work for a member of each rural household, are popular and win votes but they are costly.

“The problem with this kind of an enactment is it permanently ties up government finances and there are other cost-associated risks, especially in bad agri years,

As we can conclude the Bill is populous but not a good one.


This Bill from Sonia has got a tremendous support from unexpected quarters ie Archbishop of the Delhi. He had also promised that he would seek his fellow Christians to garner support for this Bill.

What a Visionary the country has been blessed with !