SC refuses to direct pan-India govt policy to set up subsidised community kitchens

New Delhi, Feb. 22 -- The Supreme Court on Thursday refused to direct the Central government to frame a national policy for setting up subsidised canteens or community kitchens across the country to achieve the objectives of the National Food Security Act, 2013.

A bench comprising Justice Bela M Trivedi and Justice Pankaj Mithal stated that the National Food Security Act and other welfare schemes already exist to provide adequate quantities of subsidised food for the needy.

The bench, however, left it open to the states and the Union Territories to explore the option of 'community kitchens' as a means to achieve the objectives of the National Food Security Act, of 2013.

The order came on a public interest litigation (PIL) petition filed ...