NFSA Act

The National Food Security Act, 2013 (Act 20 of 2013) has been enacted for food and nutritional security in human life cycle approach, by ensuring access to adequate quantity of quality food at affordable prices to people to live a life of dignity and for matters connected therewith or incidental thereto(from preamble to the National Food Security Act 2013). The Act provides a framework for supply of entitled quantity of food gains as Specified in schedule-II of the Act. . The Act provides for mechanism for procurement and supply of food grains at the end of dealers and fair price shops (FPS) and further off take of entitled food grains there from. It also provides for delivery of meals from Aanganwadis and schools to eligible children and also supplementary nutrition to pregnant women and lactating mothers, from ANGANWADIs.