Governance of Poverty Alleviation Policies in India: A Study of Food Security Policies to Rural Poor

摘要

The study of public policies in a translational society would help the scholars to look at the changing nature and character of the state and governance and its impact on larger socio-economic and cultural life of the people. The effectiveness of public policies are closely linked to the people living in the territory have a sovereign power to control the natural resources, cultural life styles and freedom to develop their own policies and institutions of governance to shape their own destiny in linewith the genesis of people. But, today, the public policies, institutions, capital, labour, technology, market etc, are globalised and the Indian state does not have the option/s to reject them, except for adopting them. Many countries, including the developed countries suffered due to this model of development. Against this backdrop, this article seeks to examine the governance of food security policies to rural poor in India. For the purpose of analysis, the article heavily depends on the secondary source and also author's three decades research studies/exposure on the public policies. The constraint of the article is that the subject under study is so vast that it is too difficult to examine it methodically. The article is divided into five sections. The first Section 'The Governance' deals with the changing nature of governance. The nature of public policies, relevance of poverty alleviation programmes are presented in the Section 'Public Policies-Indian Scenario'. The issues related to the problem of food insecurity, the concept of food security and right to food are presented in the Section 'The Food Insecurity in India'. The fourth Section 'Food and Nutrition-based Interventions' analyses food security interventions of the government and their impact on the living conditions of the targeted people. The last Section 'Summing Up' sets out the conclusions.