{"id":1756,"date":"2024-03-29T15:01:55","date_gmt":"2024-03-29T09:31:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lotusarise.com\/qna\/?p=1756"},"modified":"2024-04-03T07:12:52","modified_gmt":"2024-04-03T01:42:52","slug":"q-with-reference-to-the-provisions-made-under-the-national-food-security-act-2013-consider-the-following-statements","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lotusarise.com\/qna\/upsc\/q-with-reference-to-the-provisions-made-under-the-national-food-security-act-2013-consider-the-following-statements","title":{"rendered":"Q.\u00a0With reference to the provisions made under the National Food Security Act, 2013, consider the following statements:"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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  1. The families coming under the category of \u2018below poverty line (BPL)\u2019 only<\/strong> are eligible to receive subsidised food grains.<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  2. The eldest woman in a household, of age 18 years or above, shall be the head of the household for the purpose of issuance of a ration card.<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  3. Pregnant women and lactating mothers are entitled to a \u2018take-home ration\u2019 of 1600 calories<\/strong> per day during pregnancy and for six months thereafter.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n\n\n\n

    Which of the statements given above is\/are correct?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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    • 1 and 2 only<\/li>\n\n\n\n
    • 2 only<\/li>\n\n\n\n
    • 1 and 3 only<\/li>\n\n\n\n
    • 3 only<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n
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      Answer:<\/strong> (b) 2 only<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

      National Food Security Act (NFSA), 2013<\/h5>\n\n\n\n
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      • The government has notified the National Food Security Act, 2013 <\/strong>on 10th September 2013.<\/strong><\/li>\n\n\n\n
      • The objective<\/strong> is to provide for food and nutritional security<\/strong> in the human life cycle approach, by ensuring access to adequate quantities of quality food at affordable prices <\/strong>to people to live a life with dignity.<\/li>\n\n\n\n
      • Some of the\u00a0provisions of the National Food Security Act, 2013<\/strong>\u00a0are as follows:\n
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        • The Act provides for coverage of up to 75% of the rural population<\/strong> and up to 50% of the urban population<\/strong> for receiving subsidized foodgrains <\/strong>under Targeted Public Distribution System (TPDS),<\/strong> thus covering about two-thirds of the population.<\/li>\n\n\n\n
        • It provides that the eldest woman of the household of age 18 years or above<\/strong> is to be the head of the household for the purpose of issuing ration cards<\/strong>.<\/li>\n\n\n\n
        • 5 Kgs of foodgrains per person per month<\/strong> at Rs. 3\/2\/1 per Kg for rice\/wheat\/coarse grains.<\/li>\n\n\n\n
        • The existing AAY household will continue to receive 35 Kgs of foodgrains per household per month.<\/li>\n\n\n\n
        • Besides meals to pregnant women and lactating mothers during pregnancy and six months after childbirth<\/strong>, such women will also be entitled to receive maternity benefit of not less than Rs. 6,000.<\/strong><\/li>\n\n\n\n
        • The nutritional and feeding norms for supplementary nutrition are 500 calories<\/strong> and 12-15 grams of protein of children between the ages of 6 months to 6 years, 600 calories <\/strong>and 18-20 grams of protein to pregnant and nursing mothers and 800 calories and 20-25 gm. of protein to malnourished children.<\/li>\n\n\n\n
        • Meals for children upto 14 years of age.<\/li>\n\n\n\n
        • Village Committees<\/strong> will be established to keep a check on the progress and activities and to enable transparency.<\/li>\n\n\n\n
        • A person is entitled to a \u2018food security allowance<\/strong>\u2019 in the case where the required food supplies were not handed over.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

          Which of the statements given above is\/are correct? Answer: (b) 2 only National Food Security Act (NFSA), 2013<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_kad_blocks_custom_css":"","_kad_blocks_head_custom_js":"","_kad_blocks_body_custom_js":"","_kad_blocks_footer_custom_js":"","_kad_post_transparent":"","_kad_post_title":"","_kad_post_layout":"","_kad_post_sidebar_id":"","_kad_post_content_style":"","_kad_post_vertical_padding":"","_kad_post_feature":"","_kad_post_feature_position":"","_kad_post_header":false,"_kad_post_footer":false,"_kad_post_classname":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1,3],"tags":[38],"years":[55],"class_list":["post-1756","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-upsc","category-prelims","tag-indian-economy","years-55"],"acf":[],"taxonomy_info":{"category":[{"value":1,"label":"UPSC"},{"value":3,"label":"Prelims"}],"post_tag":[{"value":38,"label":"Indian Economy"}],"years":[{"value":55,"label":"2018"}]},"featured_image_src_large":false,"author_info":{"display_name":"LotusArise","author_link":"https:\/\/lotusarise.com\/qna\/author\/team-lotusarise"},"comment_info":0,"category_info":[{"term_id":1,"name":"UPSC","slug":"upsc","term_group":0,"term_taxonomy_id":1,"taxonomy":"category","description":"","parent":0,"count":1269,"filter":"raw","cat_ID":1,"category_count":1269,"category_description":"","cat_name":"UPSC","category_nicename":"upsc","category_parent":0},{"term_id":3,"name":"Prelims","slug":"prelims","term_group":0,"term_taxonomy_id":3,"taxonomy":"category","description":"","parent":1,"count":1251,"filter":"raw","cat_ID":3,"category_count":1251,"category_description":"","cat_name":"Prelims","category_nicename":"prelims","category_parent":1}],"tag_info":[{"term_id":38,"name":"Indian Economy","slug":"indian-economy","term_group":0,"term_taxonomy_id":38,"taxonomy":"post_tag","description":"","parent":0,"count":225,"filter":"raw"}],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lotusarise.com\/qna\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1756","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lotusarise.com\/qna\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lotusarise.com\/qna\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lotusarise.com\/qna\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lotusarise.com\/qna\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1756"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lotusarise.com\/qna\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1756\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lotusarise.com\/qna\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1756"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lotusarise.com\/qna\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1756"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lotusarise.com\/qna\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1756"},{"taxonomy":"years","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lotusarise.com\/qna\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/years?post=1756"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}