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Pranab promises Food Security Bill this year
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Tuesday, 01 March, 2011, 08 : 00 AM [IST]
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Our Bureau, Mumbai
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The union minister of finance, Pranab Mukherjee, while presenting the Union Budget for 2011-12, announced that the National Food Security Bill (NFSB) would be introduced in parliament during the course of this year. Mukherjee said that the government was close to finalisation of this Bill after detailed consultations with all stakeholders, including the state governments.
Referring to the government's schemes of Right to Work for rural people, Right to Information and Right to Education, Mukherjee said that the Government had engineered a major directional change in public policy by its focus on inclusive development.
The finance minister said that the allocation for the social sector in 2011-12 was being proposed to be Rs 1,60,887 crore, which was an increase of 17 % over current year. He pointed out that this allocation amounted to 36.4% of the total Plan allocation.
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