Facts You Must Know About the Food Bill

3. Empowering Women and Children:

The food bill is not only confined to the general masses but also gives equal importance to women and children . The bill seeks to empower women by entitling meals and maternity benefits of not less than 6000. Besides these benefits, pregnant women and lactating mothers will also receive maternity benefit of at least 6000. Woman should be at least 18 years old to avail ration card. As per prescribed nutritional norms, Children between the age group of 6 months to 14 years will be allowed to take home ration or hot cooked food under ICDS and Mid-Day Meal Schemes.

4. Food grains required and the cost involved:

It is estimated that the total food grains required for this welfare scheme is around 62 million tons a year. This means subsidy bill of over 12.4 million will be required to successfully implement this food bill all over the country.

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