law: National Food Security Act, 2013 
  2. Definitions
  In this Act, unless the context otherwise requires,—
  1.       "anganwadi"
  
  means a child care and development centre set up under the Integrated Child
  
  Development Services Scheme of the Central Government to render services
  
  covered under section 4, clause (a) of sub-section (1) of section 5 and section
  
  6;
  2.     
  
    "central pool" means the stock of food-grains which
  
  is,—
               
  
   i.        
  
    procured by the Central Government and the State Governments
  
  through minimum support price operations;
              
  
   ii.        
  
    maintained for allocations under the Targeted Public
  
  Distribution System, other welfare schemes, including calamity relief and such
  
  other schemes;
             
  
   iii.        
  
    kept as reserves for schemes referred to in sub-clause (ii);
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  3.       "eligible
  
  households" means households covered under the priority households and the
  
  Antyodaya Anna Yojana referred to in sub-section (1) of section 3;
  4.       "fair
  
  price shop" means a shop which has been licensed to distribute essential
  
  commodities by an order issued under section 3 of the Essential Commodities
  
  Act, 1955, to the ration card holders under the Targeted Public Distribution
  
  System;
  5.       "food-grains"
  
  means rice, wheat or coarse grains or any combination thereof conforming to
  
  such quality norms as may be determined, by order, by the Central Government
  
  from time to time;
  6.       "food
  
  security" means the supply of the entitled quantity of food-grains and
  
  meal specified under Chapter II;
  7.       "food
  
  security allowance" means the amount of money to be paid by the concerned
  
  State Government to the entitled persons under section 8;
  8.       "local
  
  authority" includes Panchayat, municipality, district board, cantonment
  
  board, town planning authority and in the States of Assam, Manipur, Meghalaya,
  
  Mizoram, Nagaland and Tripura where Panchayats do not exist, the village
  
  council or committee or any other body, by whatever name called, which is
  
  authorised under the Constitution or any law for the time being in force for
  
  self-governance or any other authority or body vested with the control and
  
  management of civic services, within a specified local area;
  9.       "meal"
  
  means hot cooked or pre-cooked and heated before its service meal or take home
  
  ration, as may be prescribed by the Central Government;
  10.    "minimum
  
  support price" means the assured price announced by the Central Government
  
  at which food-grains are procured from farmers by the Central Government and
  
  the State Governments and their agencies, for the central pool;
  11.    "notification"
  
  means a notification issued under this Act and published in the Official
  
  Gazette;
  12.    "other
  
  welfare schemes" means such Government schemes, in addition to the
  
  Targeted Public Distribution System, under which food-grains or meals are
  
  supplied as part of the schemes;
  13.    "person
  
  with disability" means a person defined as such in clause (t) of section 2
  
  of the Persons with Disabilities (Equal Opportunities, Protection of Rights and
  
  Full Participation) Act, 1995;
  14.    "priority
  
  households" means households identified as such under section 10;
  15.    "prescribed"
  
  means prescribed by rules made under this Act;
  16.    "ration
  
  card" means a document issued under an order or authority of the State
  
  Government for the purchase of essential commodities from the fair price shops
  
  under the Targeted Public Distribution System;
  17.    "rural
  
  area" means any area in a State except those areas covered by any urban
  
  local body or a cantonment board established or constituted under any law for
  
  the time being in force;
  18.    "Schedule"
  
  means a Schedule appended to this Act;
  19.    "senior
  
  citizen" means a person defined as such under clause (h) of section 2 of
  
  the Maintenance and Welfare of Parents and Senior Citizens Act, 2007;
  20.    "social
  
  audit" means the process in which people collectively monitor and evaluate
  
  the planning and implementation of a programme or scheme;
  21.    "State
  
  Commission" means the State Food Commission constituted under section 16;
  22.    "State
  
  Government", in relation to a Union territory, means the Administrator
  
  thereof appointed under article 239 of the Constitution;
  23.    "Targeted
  
  Public Distribution System" means the system for distribution of essential
  
  commodities to the ration card holders through fair price shops;
  24.    "Vigilance
  
  Committee" means a committee constituted under section 29 to supervise the
  
  implementation of all schemes under this Act;
  25.    the
  
  words and expressions not defined here but defined in the Essential Commodities
  
  Act, 1955, or any other relevant Act shall have the meaning respectively
  
  assigned to them in those Acts.