Right to Food Debates, The (Hb)

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Right to Food Debates, The (Hb) / Mander - 1st edition - Orent Blackswan 2018 - 468p. :21cms

state food provisioning in India had been regarded as an instrument of social policy since Independence. In 2001, however, following a series of starvation deaths in several states, a public interest litigation in the Supreme Court served as the catalyst for extensive debates regarding the recognition of the right to food as a basic right in India.
This process resulted in the passage of the National food security Act in 2013. ≪ em> the right to food debates lays out the principal arguments offered in the years leading up to the final Act by academics, policy make Rs and government officials, and prominent Civil society groups such as the right to food campaign.

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