National Food Security Act

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THE NATIONAL FOOD SECURITY ACT, 2013 [Act No. 20 of 2013] [10th September, 2013] PREAMBLE An Act to provide 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 with dignity and for matters connected therewith or incidental thereto. Be it enacted by Parliament in the Sixty-fourth Year of the Republic of India as follows:-- (1) This Act may be called the National Food Security Act, 2013. (2) It extends to the whole of India. (3) Save as otherwise provided, it shall be deemed to have come into force on the 5th day of July, 2013. In this Act, unless the context otherwise requires,-- (1) anganwadi means a child care and development center set up under the Integrated Child Development Services Scheme of the Central Government to render services covered under section 4, clause (a) of sub-section (1) of section 5 and section 6; (2) central pool means the stock of food grains which is,-- (i) procured by the Central Government and the State Governments through minimum support price operations; (ii) maintained for allocations under the Targeted Public Distribution System, other we