SETTING UP OF FOOD BANKS
LOK SABHA
A revised scheme
of Grain Banks to provide for periods of natural calamities or
during the lean season when rural people do not have purchasing
power in areas which are endemic drought prone having large scale
migration and calamity oriented, particularly tribal areas is
under consideration.
The Agricultural Development
strategy for the Ninth Five Year Plan was essentially based on
the policy of food security announced by the Government to double
food production and make India hunger free in the next ten years.
In the inaugural address by the Hon’ble Prime Minister at the
National Consultation on "Towards Hunger Free India" in April,
2001 it was resolved to make the mission "Hunger Free India" successful
by 2007.
This information was
given in the Lok Sabha today by Minister of State for Consumer
Affairs, Food and Public Distribution Shri U.V. Krishnam Raju
in reply to a question of Dr. (Shrimati) Ch. Suguna Kumari.
