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SC asks States for report on Food Security Act
Why in news?
- Supreme Court has asked the States to produce proof on record that they have established a mechanism for the poor to complain about the inaccessibility to food under the Public Distribution System (PDS).
More in news
- Petition filed in SC: order came on a petition filed by the mother & sister of an 11-year-old Dalit girl who died of starvation(due to the cancellation of a ration card of a poor Dalit family because the ration card was not linked to the Aadhaar card) in Jharkhand on Aug 28, 2017.
- The petition dealt with starvation deaths in Jharkhand, Karnataka, Uttar Pradesh, Maharashtra, Odisha and elsewhere.
Sources
The Hindu