Food Security Bill could spark grain crisis: Gulati

With the revised National Food Security Bill set to be introduced in Parliament, the Commission for Agricultural Costs and Prices (CACP) has warned the government's move to distribute highly subsidised foodgrains to two-thirds of the population as a legal entitlement that would create a serious crisis of ‘food management’in the country.

CACP chairman Ashok Gulati told FE that in the absence of huge investments in irrigation, foodgrain storage facilities and improvement in rail infrastructure for transportation of grains, the implementation of the proposed food security legislation would not be sustainable in the long run.