QUESTION 4
GS3
10 marks
Food Security Bill is expected to eliminate hunger and malnutrition in India. Critically discuss various apprehensions in its effective implementation along with concerns it has generated in WTO.
WRITE IN
7 min
200 words
What the examiner wants
Critically discuss implementation worries about the Food Security Bill and the WTO concerns it raised.
Critically discussAnswer exactly what the question asks.
Demand-wise check
- 1Provisions: up to 75% rural and 50% urban population; 5 kg grain per person at ₹3/2/1; AAY 35 kg; maternity benefit; women as household heads≈35 words
- 2Apprehensions: PDS leakages, identification errors, storage and procurement strain, fiscal cost, cereal focus ignoring nutrition≈35 words
- 3WTO: procurement at MSP counts as trade-distorting support; risk of breaching 10% de minimis calculated on 1986-88 prices≈35 words
- 4Response: Bali peace clause (2013); push for permanent solution≈35 words
Open in about 30 words and close in about 30.
Answer plan
Bill's provisionsHunger vs malnutrition gapImplementation issuesWTO issuePeace clauseWay forward
Where marks usually go
- Ignoring the WTO part
- Assuming cheap grain ends malnutrition
Draw this
- Diagram: MSP procurement → AMS calculation → 10% limit
Value addition
- ReportShanta Kumar High Level Committee (2015) cited NSSO data showing about 46% PDS leakage.HLC on FCI restructuring, 2015
- WTOIndia became the first country to invoke the Bali peace clause, for rice (2020).WTO notification, 2020
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Reviewed public-source references related to this PYQ. Same-syllabus references are labelled separately.
- Aniket Ranjan · AIR 48 · Page 32 ↗Same syllabus reference
- Shakti Dubey · AIR 1 · Page 29 ↗Same syllabus reference
- Aniket Ranjan · AIR 48 · Page 9 ↗Same syllabus reference
- Aniket Ranjan · AIR 48 · Page 7 ↗Same syllabus reference
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