Food Security

Which one of the following statements with regard to the National Food Security Act is not correct? (1) The Act was enacted in the year 2013. (2) The Act was rolled out in the year 2014. (3) The Act legally entitles 67 percent of the population to receive highly subsidised food grains (4) The Act is not being implemented in all the States/Union Territories.

The Government of India recently decided to lift four years old ban on export of wheat. What was the reason for the same? A) India had a bumper crop of wheat in last two years. Hence it has excess stock of wheat. b) As per the Food Security Act India is bound to provide 10 million tones of wheat to World Food Grain stock every year. India defaulted last year. This year it does not want to be one. C) As advised by the Supreme Court of India, the money received from export should be used to pay subsidy to the farmers.

Mahatma Gandhi Rural Employment guarantee Act makes a paradigm shift the previous eage employment prorammes by (a) Focussing on all - around development of the rural people (b)Provinding wage employment in rural areas a legal binding for the State Goverments (c) providing a stuatutory gurantee of wage employment (d) augmenting food security through wage employment in rural areas

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