Food insecurity could be a situation of limited access to safe and healthy food, while food security refers to a situation when ‘all people, in the slightest degree times, have physical, social, and economic access to sufficient, safe and nutritious food that meets their dietary needs and food preferences for a full of life and healthy life’. The National Food Security Act (NFSA) of India aims to supply subsidized food grains to approximately two-thirds of India’s 1.25 billion populations. The introduction of this Act in 2013, marks a serious paradigm shift from a welfare based to a rights based approach to deal with food insecurity. This text attempts to know the effect of NFSA on food security outcomes in India. It attempts to research the origin of right to food discourse and factors behind perpetual failure in food security outcomes by applying food security measurement framework. The article then focuses on the persistent failure in redressing childhood under nutrition. The article concludes that the policy must look beyond subsidized grain assistance for ensuring the nutritional security of individuals of India.

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Keywords: NFSA, Food Insecurity, Nutritional Security, Security Outcomes.