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1. National Food Security Act (NFSA, 2013) Food subsidy can fill poverty gap, twice (Puja Mehra, , 23 Feb 2013) Subsidy bill sees food doles and fuel holes (Nikhil Deshmukh, The Times of , 18 Feb 2014) Allocation for food law increased (, 18 Feb 2014) Food subsidy increased to Rs 1,15,000 crore (Press Information Bureau, 18 Feb 2014) Food subsidy zooms past Rs 1 Lakh crore (Dipak Kumar Dash, , 17 Feb 2014) Asian countries haven't achieved food security despite economic growth: M S Swaminathan (Karthikeyan Hemalatha, The Times of India, 17 Feb 2014) NCP projects Sharad Pawar as man behind food security (Ravikiran Deshmukh, Mid Day, 15 Feb 2014) Food Security not an issue if resources are managed well (The Financial Express, 8 Feb 2014) Centre has allocated grain to 10 states for food security plan (, 7 Feb 2014) 'Cash no substitute for food security' (Prof MS Swaminathan, The Times of India, 7 Feb 2014)

World Trade Organisation India defies Brazil attack to pass sugar subsidy (Agrimoney, 12 Feb 2014) India refutes US, Canada allegations of subsidised wheat exports (Amiti Sen, The Hindu , 10 Feb 2014) India's wheat, rice exports raise hackles at WTO (Siddhartha, The Times of India, 3 Feb 2014) India denies export of subsidised grains at WTO (Oryza, 3 Feb 2014) US and Canada probe India over wheat sales at WTO (Agra-Net.com,30 Jan 2014)

Public Distribution System Foodgrain godowns of 203.76 lakh MT to be constructed in 19 states (Press Information Bureau, 21 Feb 2014) More than 411.38 lakh Foodgrains with Central Pool (Press Information Bureau, 18 Feb 2014) FCI to Increase Inter-Regional Movement of Foodgrains (Press Information Bureau, 18 Feb 2014) Intermediate Storage for Storing Three Months Requirement of Foodgrains (Press Information Bureau, 18 Feb 2014) There seems to be atleast 40% leakage in our targeted PDS system (Business Standard, Sanjeeb Mukherji, 3 Feb 2014) Assam Bihar Chhattisgarh Himachal Pradesh Jammu and Kashmir National Food Security E-governance Public Distribution No ration under PDS Implementation of NFSA Act delayed in Assam, solutions co wins System Reforms and system: Kullu in J&K under now after polls Rs.10Cr to Bihar Consumption in villagers (Bhawani consideration: Minister (Business Standard, 13 automate Bihar PDS Chhattisgarh (Prasad Negi, The (Business Standard, 17 Feb 2014) (The Hindu Business Krishnamurthy, Times, 4 Feb 2014) Feb 2014) Line, 15 Feb 2014) Economic and Political JK Govt to implement Bihar first state to Weekly, 22 Feb 2014) National Food Security launch food security Act (, scheme (Hindustan Umer Maqbool, 17 Feb Times, Aloke 2014) Chatterjee, 1 Feb 2014) Government Nitish implements food irresponsible to security plan for poor people’s woes (Ground (Faizan Ahmad, The Report, 18 Feb 2014) Times of India, 2 Feb 2014) Food Security Act takes effect in Bihar (The Hindu, 1 Feb 2014)

Karnataka Kerala Madhya Pradesh Maharashtra Manipur Karnataka launches Ration Dealers' Strike Landed people have Food Security scheme NFSA Beneficiaries Food Security Scheme Called Off (Indian BPL card, People who launch on Fri (Vivek (E-Pao, 1 Feb 2014) (Business Standard, 3 Express, 18 Feb 2014) dont have land dont Bhavsar, The Asian NFSA: State Govt to fall Feb 2014) have card (Umrao Age, 31 Jan 2014) short of March target Kokru, CGnet Swara, 30 Maharashtra rolls out (E-Pao, 2 Feb 2014) Jan 2014) food security scheme Included in Below (DNA, 1 Feb 2014) Poverty Line 3 years ago still waiting for Food security scheme ration card (Charan to cover 26 lakh Singh Parte, CGnet people in Kolhapur Swara, 3 Feb 2014) (Nikhil Deshmukh, The Times of India, 1 Feb 2014) Food Security scheme launched in Nagpur (Znews, 2 Feb 2014) Bogus beneficiaries eat into food security scheme (Priyankka Deshpande, Mid Day, 5 Feb 2014) Food Security Act is God, But

Nagaland Tamil Nadu Uttar Pradesh DUCCCF, G.B (Sadar) Biometric Cards nail Free PDS rice People go without allege anomaly in PDS fake PDS beneficiaries smuggled out of Tamil grains from PDS in (Nagaland Post, 8 Feb (Sattyanarayan Nadu, sold at profit Muzaffarnagar district 2014) (Vivek Narayanan, The (Priti Nath Jha, The Pattnaik, Times of Hindu,8 Feb 2014) Times of India, 8 Feb India, 4 Feb 2014) 2014)

Midday Meals Government raises funding under state plans to Rs.3.38 lakh crore (NDTV, 18 Feb 2014) Mid day meal : Nutrition on Paper, Poor Food on the Plate (Siddheshwar Shukla, Economic & Political Weekly, 15 Feb 2014) Mid day meals cooks to exercise right reject option in Lok Sabha poll (, 14 Feb 2014) Five Government ministries team up to improve mid day meal scheme (Prashant K.Nanda, Live , 5 Feb 2014) Government expresses dissatisfaction over mid day meal fund allocation (Post, 5 Feb 2014)

Bihar Delhi Jharkhand Karnataka Madhya Pradesh Tharoor unhappy with Honorarium of midday One teacher for 5 School Mid-Day Meal Collector gives 15 days mid-day meal fund meal workers doubled classes, Comes late Low on Protein, ultimatum to schools to allocation (Business to Rs 2,000 a month goes early, Mid-day Quality: Docs, NGO start mid-day meal Standard, 4 Feb 2014) (Akshaya Mukul, The meal not proper (, (CGnet Swara, Jagdish, 4 Times of India, 4 Feb (Dansar Bodra, CGnet 10 Feb 2014) Feb 2014) 2014) Swara, 31 Jan 2014) Women self help Notice to NGO serving Closing loopholes in groups cooking school midday meal (The mid-day meal scheme mid day meal not paid Times of India, 4 Feb (Shweta Vitta, Deccan for months (Brijesh 2014) Herald, 19 Feb 2014) Singh, CGnet Swara, 5 Feb 2014) Two students fall ill after mid-day meal (, 5 Feb 2014) Quality of mid-day meal in our village is bad, Complaints don’t help (Rajkumar Yadav, CGnet Swara, 10 Feb 2014)

Maharashtra Meghalaya Punjab Rajasthan Uttar Pradesh Corporators raid two Kids malnourished Mid-day meal menu Stir over proposal to ामीण े के िवालय के Bandra schools, find despite midday meals revised, but not include eggs in चूह े बूझे (Jagran, 4 Feb midday meals to be (The Times of India, 9 cooking cost and cooks' midday meal (The 2014) sub-standard (DNA, Feb 2014) wages (Hindustan Times of India, 6 Feb 2014) Geeta Desai, 10 Feb Mid-day meal scheme Times, Harpreet Kaur, 2014) yet to make its mark in 13 Feb 2014) Mumbai: Computers Meghalaya (The Free DC quizzes govt school for schools, chikki for Press, 7 Feb 2014) teachers, finds midday midday meal (DNA, 6 meal too spicy (The Feb 2014) Indian Express, 10 Feb Maharashtra: 2014) Independent agency for midday meal scheme before June, minister says (The Times of India,Piyush Bhusari, 3 Feb 2014) 17 ill after having midday meal in Aurangabad (DNA, 2 Feb 2014) Mid-day meal scheme on education meet agenda (The Times of India, 1 Feb 2014)

Integrated Child Development Scheme Supplementary Nutrition Programme (Press Information Bureau, 21 Feb 2014) Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Programme (Press Information Bureau, 21 Feb 2014) National Food Security Act a landmark legislation, says IMF (The Economic Times, 20 Feb 2014) Women and child ministry gets Rs.21,000 crore in budget (Business Standard, 17th Feb 2014) Centre Expects Dip in Underweight Children (The Times of India, 11th Feb 2014)

Andhra Pradesh Jammu and Kashmir Karnataka Kerala Maharashtra Kerala Has Cleanest ICDS Holds Enrolment Cabinet approves 1000 ICDS Needs Social Anganwadi Toilets ‘11% of kids under five Camp for Female Sex additional Aganwadi Support, says Official Among Indian States in state underweight’ Workers (The Indian Centres (Ground (The Indian Express, (India Spend, 31st Jan, (The Indian Express, Express, 9th February Report, 2nd Feb, 2014) 3rd Feb, 2014) 2014) 12th Feb, 2014) 2014) Anganwadi workers oppose privatisation of ICDS (The Hindu, 18 Feb 2014)

Pudducherry Don't Hand over ICDS to Private Cos (The Indian Express, 5th Feb, 2014)

2. Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (MGNREGA, 2005) Rural development ministry to come out with revised index for determining wages under NREGA (Dilasha Seth and Yogesha Seth Sharma, Economic Times, 15th Feb 2014) Aadhaar not mandatory for MGNREGA wages (The Hindu, 13th Feb 2014) MGNREGA: A tale of rural revival (Varad Pande, Live Mint and Wallstreet Journal, 10th Feb 2014) Campaign to boost MGNREGA yields significant results (The Hindu, 6th Feb 2014) Revise pay under Minimum Wages Act, MNREGA every 5 years: Jairam Ramesh (The Hindu, 4th Feb 2014) Need to have parity of wage under MNREGA, Minimum Wages Act: Jairam Ramesh (The Economic Times, 2nd Feb 2014) MNREGA facing crisis of implementation: Aruna Roy (The Economic Times, 1st Feb 2014) Bring traditional industrial workers under MNREGA: INTUC (Business Standard, 1st Feb 2014)

Andhra Pradesh Assam Chhattisgarh Jharkhand Madhya Pradesh Don't have ration, MNERGA not the Baiga Adivasis worked Palamu dalits not keen Adivasis get Rs 95 per NREGA cards, No Solution (Assam Times, in NREGA year ago for on utilizing MGNREGA day in NREGA, Have not anganwadi, road, 8th Feb, 2014) more than month, No schemes (Times of got land under Forest water: CG IDP in AP wages (Naresh Bunkar, India, 2nd Feb 2014) (Gondi Rava Ramesh, CGnet Swara, 1 Feb CGnet Swara, 14 Feb (CGNet Swara, 22 Feb 2014) 2014) 2014) Farmers started work of digging well under NREGA 3 yrs ago, yet to be paid (CGnet Swara, Nathulal Rathore, 4 Feb 2014)

Maharashtra Nagaland Odisha Rajasthan West Bengal Gram Sevaks Demand MGNREGA wage rate to MGNREGS Funds Worked in NREGA, Unchanged by change: Better Pay (Times of be enhanced in April Bungled by Some people took my rural job limp - Work India, 19th February, (The Morung Express, Horticulture Dept wage away with given in Bengal under 2014) 4th Feb 2014) forged signature central 100-day scheme (The Orissa Post, 12 MoRD officials visit (Punaram Bikaner, much less than national Feb 2014) Wokha (The Morung CGnet Swara, 31 Jan average (Pranesh Express, 11 Feb, 2014) Irregularities in 2014) Sarkar, , MGNREGS (The Orissa 17th February 2014) Post, 7 Feb 2014) MGNREGS Workers yet to get Salaries (The Orissa Post, 7 Feb 2014) Ministry of rural development awards Koraput for effective initiatives under NREGA (The Orissa Post, 7 Feb 2014) Administration Fails to Adhere to MGNREGA Norms (The Indian Express, 3 Feb 2014) Odisha: Kohrapur Collector Sachin Jadhav recieves MNREGA award (Odisha Diary, 2 Feb 2014) The (17 Feb 2014) The Pragatibadi (17 Feb 2014) The Suryaprava(17 Feb 2014) The Suryaprava (17 Feb 2014) The (16 Feb 2014) The Suryaprava (16 Feb 2014) The Bhaskar (18 Feb 2014) The Pragativadi (18 Feb 2014) The Sanchar (14 Feb 2014) The Suryaprava (14 Feb 2014) The Dharitri (8 Feb 2014)

3. National Social Assistance Programme (NSAP) Govt committed to Aadhaar' (Business Standard, 18 Feb, 2014) Delhi Jharkhand Nagaland Pension Issue 17 Old Adivasis not MoRD officials visit (Rashtriya Sahara, 12 getting pensions (Majhi Wokha (The Morung Feb 2014) Mundra, CGnet Swara, 1 Express, 11 Feb, 2014) Taxes remain same, Feb 2014) pension rises (Naveed CS directs for Iqpal, The Indian appropriate Express, 12 Feb 2014) mechanism for automated communication (Avenue Mail, February 3, 2014)