By IANS,
Chennai : The Congress-led United Progressive Alliance (UPA) government will soon introduce a Right to Food Act in parliament, Union Home Minister P. Chidambaram said here Sunday.
Speaking at a function, Chidambaram said: “The government will introduce a Right to Food Act soon. This is after laws like Right to Education, Right to Information and Right to Work that were enacted by this government after amending the constitution.”
Speaking about the education loans, he said the banks have disbursed around Rs.25,000 crore to students in 2008-09. The figure is expected to touch Rs.45,000 crore for fiscal 2009-10 to benefit around 2.5 million students.
Stressing that the Congress party won the polls as the people accepted its policies, he said only the people can comment about the party’s policies.