FOOD HEALTHCARE AND

EDUCATION

FOR CHILDREN

Basic Human Needs

Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment

Guarantee Act (MGNREGA),

Housing for poor,

Total Sanitation Campaign (TSC) and

National Rural Health Mission (NHRM) provide

social security net for unorganized sector.

Right now we have Targeted Public Distribution

Programme (TPDS) for ration card holders BPL

and APL categories,

Antodaya Anna Yojana (AAY) for poorest among

the poor1,

Annapurna Yojna2 (AY) for poor senior citizens

above age of 65 years,

Integrated Child Development Scheme (ICDS) for

children below six years of age and

Mid Day Meal (MDM) programme for children up

to upper primary level meet food security need of

different sections of our population.

MID DAY MEAL IN SCHOOL

CHILD PROTECTION

• Despite all the talk of our national food security, pockets

of Food Insecurity in large numbers remain a sad reality.

• Enough food being produced nationally (in the

aggregate sense), there being enough buffer stocks held

in godowns of the government.

• A policy of making available food to vulnerable sections

of society, through the PDS and a plethora of

government programmes, aimed at eliminating Food

Insecurity, Food Insecurity still persists at the community

level.

Spread of basic education and literacy,

both of which will increase physical and

economic access to food, by not only

increasing the capability of the people but

also encouraging them to use birth control

measures.