Chhattisgarh Food and Nutrition Security Act, 2012

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de 13. 16. dialog de IndiaCode 1. 5. IndiaTH 14. 36 (10) 36 (11) 21. 36 (12) 36 (13) 29. 36 (14) 32. 36 (15) IndiaCode 36 (16) 1. 2. 3. e 36 (17) 1. 4. 5. 6. 36 (18) CHHATTISGARH ACT (No. 5 of 2013) CHHATTISGARH FOOD SECURITY ACT, 2012 TABLE OF CONTENTS Section Description CHAPTER-I Preliminary 1. Short title, extent and commencement. 2. Definitions. CHAPTER-II Provisions for Food Security 3. Right to receive food items at subsidized prices by antyodaya households, priority households and general households. 4. Nutritional support to pregnant women and lactating mothers. 5. Nutritional support to children. 6. Nutritional support to students living in hostels and aashrams. 7. Prevention and management of child malnutrition. Ir Reshran Code CHAPTER-III Entitlements of Special Groups 8. Entitlements for special groups. 9. Nutritional support to emergency or disaster affected persons. CHAPTER-IV Immediate Relief in Case of Hunger 10. Guidelines for providing relief in case of hunger. 11. Responsibility of local bodies to provide relief in case of hunger. 12. Immediate relief from hunger. CHAPTER-V Schemes of State Government 13. Implementation of schemes for realization of entitlements. CHAPTER-VI Financial responsibility of the State Government 14. Financial responsibility of the State Government. CHAPTER-VII Identification of Antyodaya Households, Priority Households And Particularly Vulnerable Social Groups 15. Power of State Government to issue guidelines with respect to identification of households and particularly vulnerable social groups. 36 (19) 16. Display of list of antyodaya, priority and general households in the public domain. CHAPTER-VIII Women Empowerment 17. Women of eighteen years of age or above to be head of the household for the purpose of issuance of ration cards. CHAPTER-IX Role of Local Bodies 18. Role of local bodies. CHAPTER-X Grievance of Redressal Mechanism 19. Internal grievance redressal mechanism. 20. Notification of services under the Chhattisgarh Lok Sewa Guarantee Act, 2011. Reforms in Targeted Public Distribution System 21. Power of the State Government to undertake necessary reforms in the Targeted Public Distribution System. CHAPTER-XII Transparency And Accountability 22. Disclosure of records related to Targeted Public Distribution System. 23. Local bodies to conduct periodical social audit. 24. Vigilance Committee. CHAPTER-XIII Offences and Penalties 25. Regulation of actions providing entitlement under the Act. 26. Punishment for contravening provisions of the Chhattisgarh Public Distribution System (Control) Order, 2004. CHAPTER-XIV Miscellaneous 27. Power of the State Government to continue or formulate food based welfare schemes. . 28. Delegation of powers under the Act. 29. Power to amend Schedules. 30. Power to make Rules. 31. Continuation of the existing schemes, guidelines, order and food standards. 32. Power to remove difficulties. 33. Liability of State Government in the event of unforeseen acts. 34. Act not in derogation of any other scheme or law. Schedule-I Schedule-II £ 36 (20) CHHATTISGARH ACT (No. 5 of 2013) CHHATTISGARH FOOD SECURITY ACT, 2012 An Act to provide for food and nutritional security by ensuring access to adequate quantity of food and other requirements of good nutrition for people of the State, at affordable prices, at all times to live a life with dignity and for matters connected therewith or incidental thereto. Be it enacted by the Chhattisgarh Legislature in the Sixty-third Year of the Republic of India, as follows :- CHAPTER-I Preliminary Short title, extend and commencement.

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