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Raising nutritional status, ensuring food security and fighting against hunger have been major concerns of stakeholders globally. Feeding hungry people across the world has been a great challenge of many countries. As per Global Report on Food Crisis (2018) in 2017 nearly 124 million people across 51 countries were facing acute food insecurity or worse and they were in need of urgent assistance1.The report of the State of Food Security and Nutrition(2018)also emphasized that in 2017 globally one out of every nine people was victim of chronic food insecurity or undernourishment. The absolute number of people in the world affected by chronic food deprivation increased from around 804 million in 2016 to nearly 821 million in 2017.The prevalence of severe food insecurity at the global level increased from 8.9% in 2014 to 10.2% in 20172.
For ensuring food security to the Indian population India has made a great history many years ago in the form of green, white and blue revolutions3. However, considerable number of Indians living in poor state is still dying due to hunger. Viewed from human rights perspective “Right to Food” is one of the fundamental rights of everyone. In order to secure this fundamental right, Government of India has made many attempts through public action programs in the form of Public Distribution System, Targeted Public Distribution System, supplementary feeding, food for work and Midday Meal Scheme etc. Despite these impressive initiatives India shares a quarter of the global hunger burden and food insecurity remain as the most devastating problems in front of government4. Food insecurity is a situation which compels a family or individual to struggle for food to satisfy the hunger of their family members and oneself as well. It reflects the struggle, pain, uncertainty, sense of insecurity faced by individuals not just for food but for a dignified and healthy life. Food insecurity exist whenever the availability of nutritionally adequate and safe foods or the ability to acquire acceptable foods in socially acceptable ways is limited or uncertain5. It refers to individuals fight for his/her right and dignified life. The state of food insecurity often leads to a person not only poor nutritional status but also affects their...