Food security

Food is the basic requirement for every human being and in a country like India with majority of people living below the poverty line, malnutition, high infant mortality are a common place thing. Ensuring that every individual gets the minimum nutritional requirements is an uphill task requiring not just a strong legislation but a stricter implementation. However, in a country where agriculture is dependent upon rains, the first step to be ensured is that there is an improvement in that sphere. Better irrigation facilities and providing better qulaity seeds alongwith organic manures and pesticides is the first step towards ensuring that the poor does not sleep hungry. But an irony of this country is that the grower of grains often sleeps hungry, his children are malnurished and he often resorts to suicide to escape his debts. Ensuring food security and providing steps to protect the farmers are much needed towards ensuring equality, but they both require a dedicated work, a collaboration between the public and private sector and a true will to implement it beyond the votebank politics.