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National Food Security Act, 2013, Section 10

Title: State Government to Prepare Guidelines and to Identify Priority Households

State: Central

Year: 2013

.....under section 9 for the rural and urban areas, identify-- (a) the households to be covered under the Antyodaya Anna Yojana to the extent specified under sub-section (1) of section 3, in accordance with the guidelines applicable to the said scheme; (b) the remaining households as priority households to be covered under the Targeted Public Distribution System, in accordance with such guidelines as the State Government may specify: Provided that the State Government may, as soon as possible, but within such period not exceeding three hundred and sixty-five days, after the commencement of the Act, identify the eligible households in accordance with the guidelines framed under this sub-section: Provided further that the State Government shall continue to receive the allocation of foodgrains from the Central Government under the existing Targeted Public Distribution System, till the identification of such households is complete. (2) The State Government shall update the list of eligible households, within the number of persons determined under section 9 for the rural and urban areas, in accordance with the guidelines framed under sub-section (1).

National Food Security Act, 2013, Section 13

Title: Women of Eighteen Years of Age or Above to Be Head of Household for Purpose of Issue of Ration Cards

State: Central

Year: 2013

(1) The eldest woman who is not less than eighteen years of age, in every eligible household, shall be head of the household for the purpose of issue of ration cards. (2) Where a household at any time does not have a woman or a woman of eighteen years of age or above, but has a female member below the age of eighteen years, then, the eldest male member of the household shall be the head of the household for the purpose of issue of ration card and the female member, on attaining the age of eighteen years, shall become the head of the household for such ration cards in place of such male member.

National Food Security Act, 2013, Section 3

Title: Right to Receive Foodgrains at Subsidised Prices by Persons Belonging to Eligible Households Under Targeted Public Distribution System

State: Central

Year: 2013

.....the same shall be protected at prices as may be determined by the Central Government and the State shall be allocated foodgrains as specified in Schedule IV. Explanation.--For the purpose of this section, the "Antyodaya Anna Yojana" means, the scheme by the said name launched by the Central Government on the 25th day of December, 2000; and as modified from time to time. (2) The entitlements of the persons belonging to the eligible households referred to in sub-section (1) at subsidised prices shall extend up to seventy-five per cent. of the rural population and up to fifty per cent. of the urban population. (3) Subject to sub-section (1), the State Government may provide to the persons belonging to eligible households, wheat flour in lieu of the entitled quantity of foodgrains in accordance with such guidelines as may be specified by the Central Government.

Protection of Women from Domestic Violence Act, 2005 Section 17

Title: Right to Reside in a Shared Household

State: Central

Year: 2005

(1) Notwithstanding anything contained in any other law for the time being in force, every woman in a domestic relationship shall have the right to reside in the shared household, whether or not she has any right, title or beneficial interest in the same. (2) The aggrieved person shall not be evicted or excluded from the shared household or any part of it by the respondent save in accordance with the procedure established by law.

National Rural Employment Guarantee Act, 2005 Section 3

Title: Guarantee of Rural Employment to Households

State: Central

Year: 2005

(1) Save as otherwise provided, the State Government shall, in such rural area in the State as may be notified by the Central Government, provide to every household whose adult members volunteer to do unskilled manual work not less than one hundred days of such work in a financial year in accordance with the Scheme made under this Act. (2) Every person who has done the work given to him under the Scheme shall be entitled to receive wages at the wage rate for each day of work. (3) Save as otherwise provided in this Act, the disbursement of daily wages shall be made on a weekly basis or in any case not later than a fortnight after the date on which such work was done. (4) The Central Government or the State Government may, within the limits of its economic capacity and development, make provisions for securing work to every adult member of a household under a Scheme for any period beyond the period guaranteed under sub-section (1), as may be expedient.

Governors (Emoluments, Allowances and Privileges) Act, 1982 Section 6

Title: Household Establishment

State: Central

Year: 1982

Subject to any rules made in this behalf, no charge shall fall on a Governor personally in respect of pay, allowances or pension or other emoluments paid to, or facilities provided for, the members of the household establishment provided to the Governor.

National Food Security Act, 2013, Chapter IV

Title: Identification of Eligible Households

State: Central

Year: 2013

Chapter IV IDENTIFICATION OF ELIGIBLE HOUSEHOLDS

National Food Security Act, 2013, Section 11

Title: Publication and Display of List of Eligible Households

State: Central

Year: 2013

The State Government shall place the list of the identified eligible households in the public domain and display it prominently.

The Chhattisgarh Food Security Act, 2012 Complete Act

State: Chattisgarh

Year: 2012

THE CHHATTISGARH FOOD SECURITY ACT, 2012 THE CHHATTISGARH FOOD SECURITY ACT, 2012 [Act No. 5 of 2013] ( Published in the Chhattisgarh Rajpatra (Asadharan) dated 18-1-2013 Pages 36(20-33).) [18th January, 2013] PREAMBLE An Act to provide for food and nutritional security by ensuring access to adequate quantity of food and other requirements of good nutrition for people of the State, at affordable prices, at all times to live a life with dignity and for matters connected therewith or incidental thereto. Be it enacted by the Chhattisgarh Legislature in the Sixty-third Year of the Republic of India, as follows:-- Chapter I - PRELIMINARY THE CHHATTISGARH FOOD SECURITY ACT, 2012 [Act No. 5 of 2013] ( Published in the Chhattisgarh Rajpatra (Asadharan) dated 18-1-2013 Pages 36(20-33).) [18th January, 2013] PREAMBLE An Act to provide for food and nutritional security by ensuring access to adequate quantity of food and other requirements of good nutrition for people of the State, at affordable prices, at all times to live a life with dignity and for matters connected therewith or incidental thereto. Be it enacted by the Chhattisgarh Legislature in the.....

National Rural Employment Guarantee Act, 2005 Complete Act

State: Central

Year: 2005

.....area; Provided that this Act shall be applicable to the whole of the territory to which it extends within a period of five years from the date of enactment of this Act. SECTION 2 : Definitions In this Act, unless the context otherwise requires,- (a) "adult" means a person who has completed his eighteenth years of age; (b) "applicant" means the head of a household or any of its other adult members who has applied for employment under the Scheme; (c) "Block" means a community development area within a district comprising a group of Gram Panchayats; (d) "Central Council" means the Central Employment Guarantee Council constituted under sub-sec. (1) of Sec. 10; (e) "District Programme Co-ordinator" means an officer of the State Government designated as such under sub-sec. (1) of Sec. 14 for implementation of the Scheme in a district; (f) "household" means the members of a family related to each other by blood, marriage or adoption and normally residing together and sharing meals or holding a common ration card; (g) "implementing agency" includes any department of the Central Government or a State Government, a Zila Parishad, Panchayat at intermediate level, Gram Panchayat or.....