there’s lot of hue and cry about the national food security bill or in other parlance can be said as ‘right to food’. the question is of efficacy related to such a law being brought to forefront when Indian economy is in shambles. There is no doubt that a country with dreams of becoming a superpower can’t afford to provide two end’s meet to it’s more than half of population brings shame, and as such every measure taken to curb the plague should be appreciated but given the record of administrating the mammoth public policy in our scenario this involve a caveat.

the government’s eagerness tending its election fever may lead to this grandiose measure to fall like a house of cards,moreover the alacrity with which it is riding roughshod over the facts of financial management is so far inexplicable.

the grand argument in favor that the major effect of such a policy on account books that it will stimulate saving and increasing the tendency to save among the masses with the extra money at their disposal but given the amount of education sans financial, among masses this argument seems untenable. In the process are we developing a society which lives largely on the dole by justifying this with welfare state module,given that every government policy with target aim have thus so far is underachiever and with additional cankers of corruption,pilferage,and ill distribution have made the condition worst than before,in lieu of this circumstances are we not in a process playing on the development of our human capital a basic asset towards structural financial development.

right to food is essence for our democracy which is ridden by malnutrition,premature death but at the same time when to implement it and how in a more pluralistic way one can approach to such a crucial policy formulation is also significant not driven by the sentiment of election amnesia there are various complexities that need to be answered in terms of who are the potential beneficiaries sans the mere figure of 67 or other for rural and urban India and how the central law would mitigate with already prevalent laws in various states like Chhatisgarh ,Tamil Nadu etc.

so there is a perfect need of time to pacify each and every shoulder that we need to set this gigantic wheel of much grand legislation on roll and given this it can never be successful when seen as mere contraption for an electoral win cause in that case it would add another pathetic chapter to the Indian tale of policy paralysis but this time the failure would have a possibility of much serious damage than before.