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CBSE - Economics - Food Security in India

Food Security in India

Short Answer Type

Can you explain the three important food intervention programs which were introduced due to the report given by NSSO? 

1. Public Distribution system for food grains (in existence earlier but strengthened thereafter) is major step taken by the Government of India towards ensuring food security.

2. Integrated Child Development Services introduced in 1975 on an experimental program.

3. National Food for Work Program was introduced in 1977-78. This program was launched on November 14, 2004 in 150 districts of the country with the objective if intensifying the generation of supplementary wage employment 

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