Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee who is the head of the Empowered Group of Ministers, EGoM on Food has given his final clearance to the revised draft of the National Food Security Bill. The draft Bill will be put before the cabinet soon.This was stated by the Food and Consumer Affairs Minister K V Thomas while talking to reporters on the sidelines of a function in New Delhi today.He said that Mr. Mukherjee gave his nod to the draft food bill last evening.AIR Correspondent reports that the Food Ministry had proposed several key changes in the draft National Food Security Bill after it was initially approved by the EGoM in July.Mr. Thomas said that the Finance Ministry has agreed to remove the condition of extending the benefits of the proposed food security law only to general households in states where the Public Distribution System is modernised.He said now the benefit will be extended to all states. The two other major changes include keeping an option open for supplying more than three kilogram of subsidised food grains to general households and widening its reach to include lactating women, destitute and aged people and providing nutritious food to children.The draft bill seeks to provide a legal entitlement to subsidised food grains to 75 percent of the country's rural population and 50 per cent of the urban India.