Know more about Food Security Ordinance
New Delhi: The Food Security Bill, a pet project of Congress chief Sonia Gandhi, was tabled in the Budget session of Parliament but could not be taken up for discussion due to pandemonium in the
Such ordinance is legal and can be implemented for the time being, but it has to be passed by the State legislature or the parliament within six months & made as a proper Act.
If the President signs it, then the ordinance will have to come into immediate effect.
The ordinance carries the provisions of the Bill, which aims to provide subsidised foodgrain to around 67% of India's 1.2 billion people.
Around 800 million people would thus get the subsidised grain, at an initial cost of around Rs. 1.3 lakh crore.