Chief Minister of Chhattisgarh Dr Raman Singh will address the national symposium on 'Central Government’s proposed National Food Security Act 2012' to be organised on Tuesday at the India International Centre, New Delhi, as the keynote speaker.
Chhattisgarh is the first State of the nation that has ensured right to food and nutrition security to 100 per cent poor families of state by implementing the food and nutrition security act. In this direction, the State Government led by Chief Minister Dr Raman Singh have made some revolutionary modification in previous Public Distribution System to make it more transparent, more practical and more result-oriented. This national symposium is being organised by well-known organisation Centre for Reform, Development and Justice at the India International Centre in New Delhi. The Chhattisgarh Government’s model of Food and Nutrition Security Act has been lauded on various occasions by nationally and internationally renowned experts of food security, along with Supreme Court and World Bank. Firstly, for the effective PDS model and then for becoming the first State of nation to provide food and nutrition security to people, efforts of Chhattisgarh’s Chief Minister have been acknowledged at national and international level.
Chairman of Centre for Reform, Development and Justice Siddarth Mishra informed that the first and the technical session of the national symposium will commence around 12 in the afternoon and the main session will begin by 3pm. In the first and the technical session of the national symposium, Prof Subrat Mukherjee of Delhi University, Dr Sunil Sondhi of Maharaja Agrasen College, Deputy Dean of Delhi Univeristy Dr Sangeet Kumar Ragi, Nehru Memorial Centre and library Fellow Dr Himanshu Rai and Secretary of Chhattisgarh Government’s Food and Civil Supply Department Vikassheel will take part.
later in the main session, Chief Minister of Chhattisgarh Dr Raman Singh will address the national symposium as keynote speaker. In this session, Chief Secretary of Chhattisgarh Sunil Kumar will provide
information on Chhattisgarh Food and Nutrition Security Act. Principal of Delhi University’s Shaheed Bhagat Singh College Dr PK Khurana and Prof MP Singh of Delhi University will also participate in the deliberations over Food Security Act.