HYDERABAD: The Food Security Bill likely to be introduced in the budget session came in for sharp criticism from civil rights activist Binayak Sen. “The current food security bill is a disaster. If passed, this travesty of a bill will only benefit a small section of the poor,” Sen said.
Speaking at the first Bimal Roy Memorial lecture at the University of Hyderabad Friday, the national vice-president of the People’s Union for Civil Liberties (PUCL) drew parallels between the stories of the marginalised which formed the core of director Bimal Roy’s films and the inequalities that exist in the society in a lecture titled ‘Sujata's children - inequality in a changing world .’