The National Advisory Council has recommended food security cover for nearly eighty crore people in the country through Public Distribution System network.It has suggested the implementation of the first phase of the proposed food security legislation from the beginning of next financial year and covering the entire country by 2014. The NAC headed by Sonia Gandhi has suggested two broad categories for eligibility for legal entitlement of food grains under the proposed food security legislation.It says that under the priority category, 35 kilograms of food grains should be provided every month at the subsidised rate of two rupees a kilogram for wheat, three rupees a kg for rice and one rupee kg for millets.The recommendation for the general category households is for a legal monthly entitlement of 20 kilograms of food grains at a price not exceeding 50 per cent of the minimum support price.The recommendations were finalised at the sixth meeting of the Council held in New Delhi today. Later, a member of the NAC Narendra Jadva said the first phase of the implementation may cost an additional expenditure of more than fifteen thousand crore rupees in food subsidiaries.The Council has also suggested universalising primary healthcare, extending nutrition and health support to adolescent girls, strengthening the school health programme, the programme for Vitamin A, iodine and iron supplementation and the national programme for cr’ches.