Some of the important recommendations:
– Legal entitlements to subsidised foodgrains should be extended to 90 percent rural population and 50 percent urban population.
– The priority households should have a monthly entitlement of 35 kg at a subsidised price of Re.1 per kg for millets, Rs.2 for wheat and Rs.3 for rice.
– The general households should have a monthly entitlement of 20 kg at a price not exceeding 50 percent of the current Minimum Support Price for millets, wheat and rice.
– The minimum coverage and entitlements as well as prices should remain unchanged at least until the end of the 12th Five Year Plan.
– Government should specify the criteria for categorisation of population into priority and general households.
– In the first phase, food entitlements should be extended to 85 percent of the rural population and 40 of the urban population.
– Full coverage of food entitlements should be extended to all by March 31, 2014.
– Legal entitlement for child and maternal nutrition
– Community kitchens
– Programmes for feeding destitute and vulnerable groups.
– Measures for revitalizing agriculture
– Diversification of the commodities available under the Public Distribution System (PDS)
– Ensure universal access to safe water and proper sanitation
– Universalization of primary health care
– Extension of nutrition and health support to adolescent girls
– Strengthen the school health programme
– National programme for creches.