NAC members protest against Plan panel

The protest,organised under the banner of Right to Food Campaign,came in the backdrop of the government giving a green signal for a nationwide BPL survey based on the poverty ratios fixed by the Planning Commission for each state.

With various public social welfare benefits like food guarantee,health insurance,old-age pension getting linked to BPL,this very minimalist proportion would amount to excluding a large section of poor and hungry people from public welfare schemes. Universalisation of public welfare services is the option to avoid it, Mander said.