Food bill deserves to be shelved

The Parliamentary Standing Committee of Food has made some new recommendations that, in effect, lower the coverage to 67 per cent of the total population and reduce the entitlement to five kilograms of food grains per person. My friends on the left have consistently argued for universal coverage for subsidised food on the rather spurious basis that any selection is fraught with malpractices and so carries serious risk of leaving out the real beneficiaries.

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