Abstract
Food security is a multi-dimensional concept. It extends beyond the production availability and demand for food. Food security has three important and closely related components i.e. availability of food, access to food and absorption of food. Hunger and nutritional deprivation on a mass scale are key challenges before the country. The country has to feed millions and to ensure what we feed them is nutritionally adequate. More than half of women population in the country suffers from anemia and more than 30 percent of children are undernourished. Nutritional status of women and children is examined in this paper. Food security in India has been receiving top priority. Food Security Act 2013 (NFSA) marks a paradigm shift in addressing the problem of food from current welfare approach to a right based approach. Food Security Bill (Act) is considered as the biggest ever experiment in the world for distributing highly subsidized food by any government through a right based approach. The total expenditure of the National Food Security provisions is likely to be somewhere between Rs. 1,25,000 to Rs. 1,50,000 crores. Despite the cost involved and the likely impact on government fiscal deficit and the probable food price inflation the advocates of the Act consider it as a form of investment in human capital.
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