Facts You Must Know About the Food Bill

5. Procedures involved in choosing the Beneficiaries:

Beneficiaries for the bill will be chosen on the basis of the 2011 population census. The states and union territories are allowed to include their own criteria or can employ census data based on social, economic and caste, where the government is meant to identify households within its jurisdictions. But in the original Food Bill, the central government is responsible for identifying it.

6. Misconception about the bill:

Many people have raised the question whether India can afford such an expensive scheme, where the country's annual food subsidy bill will witness more than double  of 1.3 trillion rupees. It is also claimed that this bill will only fill the pockets of those corrupt and inefficient state-owned cheap food ration shopkeepers. It is said that, the food bill is an extensively regarded key method of the union government to entice people to vote for them in the upcoming 2014 election.

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