India launches giant cheap food programme

[Abingdonboy]

Mid Day meals is a truly spectacular program. Since it's launch the school dropout rates have plummeted and attendance has soared. That's the sort of program you guys really need to run in your own country.

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All to often Indians reduce everything down to petty politics and rubbish any good work done by anyone. This mid day meals project has truly revolutionized many state's education practices and child enrollment. This is how India will devlop-off the backs of these children who know will be educated and will go on to to great things. Many other nations are looking to replicate such policies- yes there are issues but on the whole it is more positive than negative.


Same with this right to food policy. Yes it might be a polticial stunt but so what? that's democracy for you- everything is a political stunt. What do you think democracy us all about? This policy will be good for India- on the whole.

 

[Spring Onion]

Mid Day meals is a truly spectacular program. Since it's launch the school dropout rates have plummeted and attendance has soared. That's the sort of program you guys really need to run in your own country.

we are runing other projects like paying stipend to students so that paoing parents send them to school and thats quiet good going here. meal is not a big issue here for school going kids (in most of the cases).


@Dillinger : nobody said anything like failur for mid day meal scheme i was reminding him that even this project had loopholes so dont blame Congress for everything specially for something that had not even started properly yet

 

[Guynextdoor2]

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All to often Indians reduce everything down to petty politics and rubbish any good work done by anyone. This mid day meals project has truly revolutionized many state's education practices and child enrollment. This is how India will devlop-off the backs of these children who know will be educated and will go on to to great things. Many other nations are looking to replicate such policies- yes there are issues but on the whole it is more positive than negative.


Same with this right to food policy. Yes it might be a polticial stunt but so what? that's democracy for you- everything is a political stunt. What do you think democracy us all about? This policy will be good for India- on the whole.

I for one am sick and tired of people dying hungry. It's one thing that we were poor and couldn't do anything at all. But when you have something, you need to do something. Else the difference between the haves and the have-nots and the conflicts it creates will only split us apart.

 

[Abingdonboy]

I for one am sick and tired of people dying hungry. It's one thing that we were poor and couldn't do anything at all. But when you have something, you need to do something. Else the difference between the haves and the have-nots and the conflicts it creates will only split us apart.

Exactly. At a time when India is spending $50+ BN a year on defence, there are a-holes constructing billion dollar skyscraper homes in Mumbai, the Indian PM is rolling around in a brand spanking new 7 series, the President in a S600 PULLMAN etc India cannot be happy with people going to bed hungry and dying from malnutrition. Yes this is far too simplistic a statement but on the face of it this is an incredibly simple response of what you can see.

 

[Dillinger]

we are runing other projects like paying stipend to students so that paoing parents send them to school and thats quiet good going here. meal is not a big issue here for school going kids (in most of the cases).


@Dillinger : nobody said anything like failur for mid day meal scheme i was reminding him that even this project had loopholes so dont blame Congress for everything specially for something that had not even started properly yet

Oh tumhari baat nahi kar raha tha main.

 

[Awesome]

So this is something extra and limitless right?

For example 1 meal, 10 rps. Is it doable at cost without subsidies?

 

[anonymus]

So this is something extra and limitless right?

For example 1 meal, 10 rps. Is it doable at cost without subsidies?

No bounded,

Only 35 Kgs/month, after one has to buy from open market.

 

[Awesome]

No bounded,

Only 35 Kgs/month, after one has to buy from open market.

35 kg a month is one kg+ a day.

Why doesn't an enterprising businessman just buy from the poor, and sell it off in the open market?

 

[anonymus]

35 kg a month is one kg+ a day.

Why doesn't an enterprising businessman just buy from the poor, and sell it off in the open market?

That happens.

Also in some states, grain is diverted to make alcohol (MP).

 

[Guynextdoor2]

35 kg a month is one kg+ a day.

Why doesn't an enterprising businessman just buy from the poor, and sell it off in the open market?

That's actually been one reason why the govt could not release food from graineries. I guess if everybody gets access to cheap grains, market rates will fall and make this option less attractive.

 

[doremon]

thats only in karnataka.. they are giving it probably in addition to central govt scheme which is 35 kg or rice or wheat for 3 rs / 2 rs per kg (per family per month)

Its the same card.

i dont know much about north india but in most part of south india like tamilnadu,keral,karnataka, rice is sold at 1rs per kg for bpl card holders

 

[Neuro]

Jayalalithaa's 'Amma' canteens in nine more cities | NDTV.com

Chennai:The city's low-cost tiffin centres, which have become popular among the people from economically weaker sections, were on Sunday launched in nine other cities in Tamil Nadu by Chief Minister J Jayalalithaa.

Ms Jayalalithaa launched the "Amma Unavagams" in Madurai, Coimbatore, Tiruchirapalli, Tirunelveli, Salem, Tiruppur, Tuticorin, Vellore and Erode through video conferencing from the state secretariat, an official release said.

The nine corporations will have 10 canteens each.

She also launched the addition of new items such as 'Pongal' for breakfast and curry-leaf rice and lemon rice for lunch in the 200 canteens which are run in Chennai.

'Amma' canteens offer affordable breakfast and lunch for the welfare of daily wagers, auto and rickshaw drivers, vendors and other floating population in these corporations across the state.

First launched in Chennai offering idlies at Re one a piece and sambar and curd rices at Rs. 5 and Rs. 3 respectively, these canteens became an instant hit among the consumers, who pleaded for addition of new items in the menu.

Ms Jayalalithaa had announced in the Assembly last month that more canteens would be opened in other corporations and new items would be included in the menu.

 

[Neuro]

i dont know much about north india but in most part of south india like tamilnadu,keral,karnataka, rice is sold at 1rs per kg for bpl card holders

In Tamilnadu 35kgs rice for free of cost.

 

[Soumitra]

This comment from Prof. Anil Gupta of IIM Ahmedabad on Facebook sums up the situation beautifully.

Food subsidy Bill is a betrayal of self respecting, hardworking and creative people of india. Making 60 per cent of rural India and 50 per cent of urban india stand in the queue for 6kg grain per person per month shows how little state trust markets even where they work. People ability to work hard and earn their food is being compromised.

Because state does not want to remove absolute poverty in most poor regions for ever, it wants to distribute food even to those who dont need, much less deserve this subsidy.

what else could be done with 100,000 cr rupees? support creative and innovative people in informal sector for whom we just have Rs 8 cr p a; support participatory micro watershed and irrigation projects in dry regions. Any body who does not understand this must visit vidharbha and also suarashtra, gujarat and see teh difference. In maharashtra, farmers commits suicides but no effort to conserve water in situ, promote non chemical pest control methods and provide smal machineries to farmers. It is shame that government does not intend to promote innovations and technological change in rural and urban india and instead wants to offer a feast to rats!!! (both natural and human rats who wil pilfer much of these grains..). Government can not store what it already procures, it want to procure more, depress private procurement and thus fuel inflationary pressures. i am a great supporter of state intervention to remove poverty but not this way... certainly not,

 

[nastikan]

when did india turn communist?

lol

anyways is this a forever thing or just until election is done?

If it's just election, then this program does pretty much nothing, and if it's forever, than damn that is an expensive program.

India was socialist till the 90's and it still is to a great extent.

35 kg a month is one kg+ a day.

Why doesn't an enterprising businessman just buy from the poor, and sell it off in the open market?

That will be the natural outcome ain't it ?
A lot of Tamil Nadu welfare programs are exploited and goods sold to neighboring states like Kerala.