Right to Food Campaign, India

The Right To Food Campaign is an informal network of individuals and organisations committed to the realisation of the right to food in India. The campaign began in 2001 as an offshoot of public interest litigation in the Supreme Court, and quickly grew into a country-wide movement.

The campaign, which has taken up a wide range of aspects of the right to food, has several demands and some of these have already been met to some extent. Among these are the passage of the National Rural Employment Guarantee Act of 2005 and National Food Security Act of 2013, and the introduction of cooked mid-day meals in all primary schools following a Supreme Court order in April 2004.

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20/03/2021

Activists welcome India Supreme Court's move to quiz gov't on voided ration cards linked to starvation deaths

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More than three years since India was rocked by the story of a child from Jharkhand state, who had shrunk to skin and bones and was said to have pleaded for rice before she died famished, the country's Supreme Court (SC) has finally heard the plea to compel the central government to explain its side on starvation deaths allegedly caused by the cancellation of cards that authorized poor people to buy staples at subsidized prices.