Schedule III

Schedule III

(See section 31)

Provisions for Advancing Food Security

1.     Revitalisation of Agriculture—

a.     agrarian reforms through measures for securing interests of small and marginal farmers;

b.    increase in investments in agriculture, including research and development, extension services, micro and minor irrigation and power to increase productivity and production;

c.     ensuring livelihood security to farmers by way of remunerative prices, access to inputs, credit, irrigation, power, crop insurance, etc.;

d.    prohibiting unwarranted diversion of land and water from food production.

2.     Procurement, Storage and Movement related interventions—

a.     incentivising decentralised procurement including procurement of coarse grains;

b.    geographical diversification of procurement operations;

c.     augmentation of adequate decentralised modern and scientific storage;

d.    giving top priority to movement of food-grains and providing sufficient number of rakes for this purpose, including expanding the line capacity of railways to facilitate foodgrain movement from surplus to consuming regions.

3.     Others: Access to—

a.     safe and adequate drinking water and sanitation;

b.    health care;

c.     nutritional, health and education support to adolescent girls;

d.    adequate pensions for senior citizens, persons with disability and single women.