II. VERY SHORT ANSWER TYPE QUESTIONS
Answer the following questions
1. What is meant by affordability?
2. State the meaning of famine.
3. What is a Fair Price Shop?
4. When was Annapurna Scheme started?
5. When was National Food Security Act passed?
6. What are the various kinds of ration cards? To whom are they issued?
Answers
Hello !
1.Affordability. A consumer's capacity to afford a house. Affordability is usually expressed in terms of the maximum price the consumer could pay for a house and be approved for the mortgage required to pay that amount.
2.A famine is a widespread scarcity of food, caused by several factors including war, inflation, crop failure, population imbalance, or government policies. This phenomenon is usually accompanied or followed by regional malnutrition, starvation, epidemic, and increased mortality.
3.Fair Price Shop means a shop which has been licensed to distribute essential commodities by an order issued under section 3 of the Essential Commodities Act, 1955, to the ration card holders under the Targeted Public Distribution System. The term is defined in Section 2(4) of National Food Security Act, 2013.
4.2000-2001
The Ministry of Rural Development launched the scheme in 2000-2001. Indigent senior citizens of 65 years of age or above who though eligible for old age pension under the National Old Age Pension Scheme (NOAPS) but are not getting the pension, are covered and 10 kgs.
5.July 5, 2013
National Food Security Act (NFSA) , 2013. The enactment of the National Food Security Act, (NFSA) 2013 on July 5, 2013 marks a paradigm shift in the approach to food security from welfare to rights based approach.
6. FCI (antodayaration card) for the poorest of the poor people.
BPL(below poverty line ) for the people below poverty line .
APL(above poverty line )for the people above poverty line.
Hope It Helps u :)
Mark as Brainliest..