Chennai: Union Home Minister P Chidambaram on Sunday said that the Centre would soon come out with a comprehensive Right to Food Act.
"After the Right to Information Act, Right to Work Act
and Right to Education Act, the Government is working on a
Right to food Act, which will be enforced soon," he said at a
function here.
He claimed that the Congress-led UPA government`s rights
based approach has ensured faster economic growth, benefiting
all sections of society in the country.
On the education front, he said disbursement of loans and
scholarships to students, especially Dalits, has reached
"unprecedented levels" under the UPA government.
In 2008-2009, education loans worth Rs 25,000 crore were
disbursed to poor students and this figure was expected to go
up to Rs 45,000 crore during 2009-2010, benefiting about 25
lakh students, he said.
The UPA government, he said, was pursuing a strong
economic policy, reflected in allocation of special component
plan, which increased from Rs 6,500 crore in 2006-2006 to
about Rs 22,000 crore in 2009.
PTI
