March 22, 2013 09:18 pm | Updated 09:19 pm IST
The Union Cabinet has cleared the National Food Security Bill that gives legal entitlement to 67 per cent population (including 75 per cent rural and 50 per cent urban) for subsidised grains under the Targeted Public Distribution System.
Read the text of the >National Food Security Bill 2013 .
Read the >summary of revised version of the National Food Security Bill 2013 as tabled in Parliament on March 22, 2013.
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