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SC dismisses PIL seeking quashing of food security Ordinance

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The Supreme Court Monday dismissed a PIL seeking the quashing of the National Food Security Ordinance on the grounds that it wasUPA government’s politically inspired pre-election propaganda camouflaged as a scheme to feed the hungry mouths. “What is your problem if under the scheme some poor people are benefitted,” observed a bench of Justice T.S. Thakur and Justice Vikramajit […]

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Plea in SC seeks quashing of food security ordinance

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A day after President Pranab Mukherjee promulgated the national food security ordinance, a petitioner claimed it was “unconstitutional” and urged the Supreme Court to quash it for allegedly being inspired by the UPA’s pre-poll propaganda. Petitioner advocate Manohar Lal Sharma said that the constitutional provisions on powers of the president to promulgate ordinances during recess […]

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National Food Security Ordinance: Salient points

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The National Food Security Ordinance, promulgated by PresidentPranab Mukherjee, aims to give right to subsidised food grain to 67 percent of India’s 1.2 billion people, and will ensure food and nutritional security, said an official statement Friday. The ordinance, with a special focus on the needs of the poorest of the poor, women and children, provides for […]

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