After food security bill, the Union Government is now going ahead with the new proposal – Right to Housing – which is under discussion, said the Union Minister of State for Consumer Affairs, Food and Public Distribution System KV Thomas. The Union government has successfully passed the Food Security Bill in Parliament recently and now thinks a new Bill ensuring housing security for all citizens.
As a ‘Meet the Press’ programme organised by the Ernakulam Press Club in Kochi on September 8, the first media interaction after passage of Food Security Bill, the Minister said that guaranteeing food as a fundamental right of the people was the main agenda behind the Food Security Bill.
Likewise, the government hopes to ensure right for dwelling under the purview of various rights of the citizen in line with Right to Information, Right to Education, Right to Health and now Right to Food as well, he said.
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