Annual Report 2010-2011 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. 11. 12. 13. 14. 15. 16. 17. 18. Prof. M.S.Swaminathan, Chairman, M.S. Swaminathan Research Foundation, Chennai, Tamil Nadu. Shri K.R.Venugopal, IAS(Retd.), Hyderabad, Andhra Pradesh. Dr. S.M. Jharwal, Chairman, National Pharmaceutical Pricing Authority, New Delhi. Dr. (Smt.) Prema Ramachandran, Director, Nutrition Foundation of India, New Delhi. Dr. K.M. Bujarbaruah, Vice-Chancellor of Assam Agricultural University, Jorhat, Assam. Dr. P.K. Joshi, Director, National Academy of Agricultural Research Management, Hyderabad. Andhra Pradesh. Dr. R.S. Deshpande, Director, Institute for Social and Economic Change, Bangalore, Karnataka. Dr. V. Prakash, Director, Central Food Technological Research Institute, Mysore, Karnataka. Prof. S. Parasuraman, Director, Tata Institute of Social Sciences, Mumbai, Maharashtra. Prof. Ravi Srivastava, Centre for the Study of Regional Development, School of Social Sciences, J.N.U., New Delhi. Dr. Amrita Rangasami, Centre for the Study of Administration of Relief, New Delhi. Dr. (Smt.) Rama Melkote, Secunderabad, Andhra Pradesh. Smt. Alka Sirohi, Secretary, Department of Food and Public Distribution, Ministry of Consumers Affairs, Government of India, New Delhi. Shri Rajiv Agarwal, Secretary, Department of Consumer Affairs, Ministry of Consumers Affairs, Government of India, New Delhi. Shri P.K. Basu, Secretary, Department of Agriculture and Cooperation, Ministry of Agriculture, Government of India, New Delhi. Shri M.F. Farooqui, Addl. Secretary, Ministry of Environment and Forests and Chairman, Genetic Engineering Approval Committee, New Delhi. Shri Siraj Hussain, Chairman and Managing Director, Food Corporation of India, New Delhi. Shri A.K.K. Meena, Commissioner-cum-Secretary & Director, Food Supplies and Consumer Welfare Department, Government of Odisha, Bhubaneswar. 6.18 The 18 Member Core Group met on 2 November 2010 under the chairmanship of Shri P.C. Sharma, Member, NHRC, in New Delhi. 6.19 In the said meeting several issues pertaining to right to food were taken up for discussion. One of them was about food and nutrition security. Low and stagnating incomes among the poor has meant that low purchasing power remains a serious constraint to household food and nutrition security, even if food production picks up as a result of interventions in agriculture and creation of rural infrastructure. The other concerns raised were about child malnutrition, maternal anaemia, reporting of starvation deaths and farmers suicide from different States of the country, food procurement policy, sustainable food security and the public distribution system. 78 NHRC