INDIA’S FOOD AID PROGRAM

Made to feed Millions!

• 2/3 of population will be able to get food for 3 years

• Rice, wheat, millet and cereals• Pregnant women will get payment to buy

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Paranjoy Guha Thakurta said “Indian society has always been an unequal society historically. The food inflation that this country has witnessed in the recent past has made an already unequal society even more unequal. Simply put, the poor spend a larger proportion of their income on food.” (CNN)

• Sonia Gandhi president of ruling Congress Party

• India has a history of failed welfare programs

• why now?