India's cabinet agreed on Sunday to tackle widespread malnutrition with food subsidies for two-thirds of the country's 1.2 billion population, a move that may shore up support for the government, Reuters reported. The bill will be sent to parliament next week, a senior minister who asked not to be named told Reuters. "The food security bill is cleared," the minister said. The government's Congress party-led coalition has a majority and the multi-billion dollar project has a good chance of being passed into law ahead of elections in the poor, politically important state of Uttar Pradesh early next year.
