The primary objective of the bill is to guarantee cheap food grain to nearly 70% of India's 1.2 billion people. The broader aim is to alleviate chronic hunger and poverty in India.

India accounts for a third of the world's poor, the World Bank said earlier this year.

The bill, if passed, would provide subsidized food grain to 75% of India's estimated 833 million rural population and 50% of an estimated 377 million urban population.

The government says it will spend about $4 billion a year on the program.

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