The food security Bill aims to give cereals to the beneficiaries. However, there has been a drop in consumption expenditure since 2004-05 - Trends in composition of consumer expenditure

The Bill, which seeks to entitle 67 per cent of the country’s population — about 800 million people —to subsidised food, was passed after a six-hour debate in a late-evening sitting of the lower house - Lok Sabha clears food Bill