The Economic Advisory Council to the Prime Minister has favoured assured delivery of foodgrains at two rupees a kg for wheat and three rupees a kg for rice to the really needy households and varying qunatums for the rest depending upon the availability of foodgrains. It has however said that the recommendation of the National Advisory Council of 7 kg per capita entitlement to the priority households and 2 kg for general households is difficult to implement in view of the projected food availability. The panel headed Mr. C. Rangarajan has said Legal entitlement over foodgrains should be given only to priority households, 46 per cent of rural population and 28 percent of urban population as of now under the proposed National Food Security Bill.The Rangarajan panel has said that because of several constraints, the implementation of the entire set of NAC recommendations may have to be calibrated.The Council says that the total foodgrain requirement for the entitled population, bufferstocks as well as other welfare programmes treated as mandatory will be about 51 million tonnes during this year and nearly 52 million tonnes in 2014. It says that the total subsidy for the entitled population will be to the tune of 68,539 crore rupees in the first phase. The total subsidy in the first phase will be 83 thousand crore rupees if the subsidy required for maintaining the bufferstock and the welfare schemes are added.