Food security is one of the major socio-economic challenges in our country. The paper has attempted to understand the condition of hunger because there are many people who are suffering from hunger and who do need food security. While analysing the condition of hunger and food security the paper, on the basis of primary survey, concludes that the programmes under food security umbrella are very helpful in mitigating the incidence of hunger for a large section of our population. However, the distribution linkages are heavy linkage- prone and require urgent and massive correction.