(1) This Ordinance may be called the National Food Security --,m,,,, Ordinance, 20 1 3.
(2) It cxtends to the whole of India
(3) Save as otherwise provided, it shall come into force at once.
hfmitbns 2. In this Ordinance. unless the context otherwise requires,- (I) "mgmwod~ means a child care and development centre sct up under the Integrated Child Development Services Scheme of the Central G o v e m n t to render services covered under section 4.
clause (a) of subsMion (I) ofsection 5 and section 6;
(2) "cenrral pool" means the stock of foodgrains which is.-
(i) procured by the Cenlral Government and the State Governments through minimum support price operations;
(ii) maintained for allocations under the Targeted Public Distribution System, other welfare schemes, including calamity relief and such other schemes;
(iii) kept as reserves for schemcs referred to in sub-clause
(ii);
(3) "eligible households" means households covered under the priority households and the Antyodaya Anna Yojana referred to in sub-section (1) of section 3;
(4) 'Yair price shop" means a shop which has been licensed to Ioorlgss distribute essential commodities by an order issued under section j of the Essential Commodities Act, 1955, to the ration card holders undcr the Targeted Public Distribution System:
(5) Yoodgrains" means rice, wheat or coarse grains or any combination thereof conforming to such quality norms as may be determined, by order, by the Central Government from time to time;
(6) "food security" means the supply of the entitled quantity of foodgrains and meal specified under Chapter 11;
(7) -food security allowance" means the amount of money to be paid by the concerned State Government to the entitled persons under section 8:
(8) "local authority" includes Panchayat, municipality; district board, cantonment board, town planning authority and in the States of Assam, Manipur. Meghalaya. Mioram. Nagaland and Tripura where Panchayats do not exist. the village council or comrninec or any other body, by whatever name called, which is authorised under the Constitution or any law for the time being in force for srlfgovernance or any other authority or body vested with the. control and management of civic services, within a specified local area:
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home ration, as may be prescribed by the Central Government;
(10) "mmimum support price" means the assured price announced by the Central Government at which foodgrains are procured from f m e r s by the Central Govcmment and the State Governments and their agencies, for the central pool;
(11) "notification" means a notification issued under !his O r d i i c e and published in the Official Gazette;
(12) "other welfare schemes" means such Government schemes, in addition to the Targeted Public Distribution Systcm, under which foodgrains or meals are supplied as part of the schemes;
(13) "person with disability" means a person defmed as such in I or 1996 clause (I) of section 2 of the Persons with Disabilities (Equal Opportunities, Protection of Rights and Full Participation) Act, 1995;
(14) "priority households" means households identified as such under section 10;
(15) "prescribed" means prescribed by rules made under this Ordinance;
(Ib) "on card" means a document issued under an order or authority of the State Government for the purchase of essential commodities from the fair price shops under the Targeted Public Dimiburion System;
(1 7) ''rural area" means any area in a State except those areas covered by any urban local body or a cantonment board established or constituted under any law for the time being in force;
(18) "Schedule" means a Schedule appended to this Ordinance;
(19) "senior citizen" means a person defined as such under 56 o(XQ7 clause (h) of section 2 of the Maintenance and Welfare of Parents and Senior Citizens Act, 2007;
(20) "social audit" means the process in which people collectively monitor and evaluate the planning and implunentation of a programme or scheme;
(21) "State Commission" means thc State Food Commission constituted under senion 16;
(22) "State Government", in relation to a Union territory, means the Administrator thereof appointed under article 239 of the Consti~tiOn;
(23) "Targeted Public Disrribution System" means the system for distribution of essential commodities to thc ration card holders rhrough fair price shops;
(24) "Vigilance Committee" means a cornminee constituted under section 29 to supervise the lmplemzntation of all schemes under this Ordinance;
loot 1955 (25) the words and expressions nor defined here but defined in the Essential Commodities Act, 1955, or any other relevant Acr shall have the meaning respectively assigned to them in those Acts.
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CHAFER 11 PRO\lSIONS FOR FOOD SECURITY