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(a) Minimum Support Price: This is the pre-announced price at which the government purchases food grains particularly, wheat and rice, from the farmer...
Buffer stock is created by the government to ensure the availability of food to all the sections of society. It helps to resolve the problem of shorta...
The government has designed the food security system carefully to ensure the availability of food to all sections of society. The system is composed o...
Hunger has chronic and seasonal dimensions.Chronic Hunger Seasonal Hunger Chronic hunger is a consequence of diets persistently inadequate in terms of...
When there is a disaster or a calamity, the production of food grains decreases in the affected areas. This in turn creates a shortage of food in the ...
A section of the people is insecure during a few months when they remain unemployed because of the seasonal nature of agricultural work. They are enga...
Green Revolution has made India self-sufficient in food grains. The country has avoided famines even during adverse weather conditions since the adven...
The states of Uttar Pradesh (eastern and south-eastern parts), Bihar, Jharkhand, Orissa, West Bengal, Chattisgarh, parts of Madhya Pradesh and Maharas...
The people more prone to food insecurity are: Landless people with little or no land to depend on. Traditional artisans. Providers of traditiona...
Food security of a nation is ensured if all of its citizens have enough nutritious food available, all persons have the capacity to buy food of accept...
The main features of the National Rural Employment Guarantee Act 2005 are: The Act assures 100 days of employment every year to every rural househ...
Women, children (especially the girl child) and elder people in a poor family are regarded as the poorest of the poor because they are systematically ...
Removal of poverty is one of the major objectives of the Indian developmental strategy. The current government strategy of poverty alleviation is b...
Many scholars advocate that we must broaden the concept of poverty into human poverty. A large number of people may have been able to feed themselves....
The current anti-poverty strategy of the government is based broadly on two planks promotion of economic growth targeted anti-poverty programs.
The proportion of people in developing countries living in extreme economic poverty - defined by the World Bank as living on less than $1 per day - ha...
Social groups, which are most vulnerable to poverty, are scheduled caste and scheduled tribe households. Similarly, among the economic groups, the mos...
There were a number of causes for the widespread poverty in India. One historical reason is the low level of economic development under the British co...
As per the data, there has been a substantial decline in poverty ratios in India from 45 percent in 1993-94 to 37.2 percent in 2004-05. There was a fu...
No, the present methodology of poverty estimation is not appropriate because it takes into account only the basic needs of food, clothing, fuel etc. B...