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Cabinet meet likely Sunday on Lokpal, food security bills
Saturday December 17, 2011 11:36:13 PM,
IANS
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New Delhi: The union
cabinet is expected to meet here Sunday evening to discuss the Lokpal and the food security bills, said official sources.
The cabinet meeting, earlier scheduled for Monday, would now be
held Sunday evening, the sources said Saturday evening.
Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, on his way back from Russia
Saturday, said the government hopes to bring the Lokpal bill to
the cabinet by Sunday.
"We are working day and night to give shape to the bill and it is
my hope that by tomorrow we should be able to bring the bill to
the cabinet," he said.
Officials in the food and consumer affairs ministry said the food
security bill is also expected to be taken up by the cabinet
Sunday.
Official sources said the government has taken into account
suggestions of parties at the all-party meeting and the standing
committee report on Lokpal to give a final shape to the
legislation aimed at creating an anti-corruption ombudsman.
Opposition parties including the Bharartiya Janata Party (BJP) and
Communist Party of India-Marxist (CPI-M) have called for inclusion
of prime minister in the ambit of Lokpal with certain exceptions.
They had also called for inclusion of group 'C' employees.
The BJP had also demanded an investigative mechanism for Lokpal
and ensuring operational independence of Central Bureau of
Investigation (CBI).
Meanwhile, the National Food Security Bill had hit a road-block
over high subsidy involved and availability of grains. The draft
bill had provided coverage of 75 percent of rural population and
50 percent of urban households and proposes right to 7 kg
foodgrains per person per month, at Rs.3 per kg for rice, Rs.2 per
kg for wheat and Rs.1 per kg for coarse grains to the priority
beneficiaries.
Sources said the government has taken its allies on board on both
the bills.
They said Agriculture Minister Sharad Pawar had expressed concern
that food subsidy, currently at Rs.63,000 crore, may go up to
Rs.1.2 lakh crore to implement the right to food law.
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