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4000 sacks of soyabean rotting in Nagpur
In a country where a considerable number of families still sleep hungry, food grain rotting due to lack of storage space is possibly the worst phenomenon still left unchecked.Despite the Supreme Court ruling on grain distribution to the poor, the grain rotting episodes have turned into a saga. Now, Mandhal village in Nagpur has seen more than four ...
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A bonfire of rotting food grain in India's hungriest state
Across the country, there have been reports of grain going to waste while hundreds of thousands continue to starve. The latest one comes from the state of Madhya Pradesh where a whopping 67 percent of the people live below the poverty line.On February 5, The Food Corporation of India had sent 1,100 quintals of wheat to be distributed in Khandwa's r...
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Madhya Pradesh: Battle for food gets desperate, grain rotting continues
When hunger stalks, several stories of desperation are born. In Madhya Pradesh, Rajesh Gond, a tribal man, was arrested for stealing wheat from his neighbour's house so that he could feed his family. Rajesh stole a seventy-kilo sack of wheat worth one thousand rupees from his neighbour's house. For a tribal villager like him whose ...
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Wheat rots in Punjab, but Kashmir Kaur's family will starve
Putting food on the family's plate is an everyday battle for Kashmir Kaur. This happens in a state where at least 10 lakh metric tonnes of surplus wheat, is rotting outside government godowns - grain that should have been fed into a weakening public distribution system. Kaurs have a below poverty line ration card that entitles them to 35 kilos of w...
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Hunger spreads as foodgrains continue to rot in Madhya Pradesh
When malnutrition is the stark reality in most of the states, it is difficult to believe that food could be getting wasted due to lack of storage space. Nearly five thousand metric tons of wheat bought from local farmers by the Seoni district Cooperative society is rotting out in the rain. Even though, in the last one ...
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Rotting food: Three FCI officials suspended
A day after NDTV highlighted the criminal waste of foodgrain at a time when millions are going hungry in the country, the Food Ministry has cracked down.Three officials of the Food Corporation of India (FCI) have been suspended after an inspection which found foodgrain rotting in FCI warehouses in Uttar Pradesh. The FCI is responsible for the procu...
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4000 sacks of soyabean rotting in Nagpur
In a country where a considerable number of families still sleep hungry, food grain rotting due to lack of storage space is possibly the worst phenomenon still left unchecked.Despite the Supreme Court ruling on grain distribution to the poor, the grain rotting episodes have turned into a saga. Now, Mandhal village in Nagpur has seen more than four ...
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A bonfire of rotting food grain in India's hungriest state
Across the country, there have been reports of grain going to waste while hundreds of thousands continue to starve. The latest one comes from the state of Madhya Pradesh where a whopping 67 percent of the people live below the poverty line.On February 5, The Food Corporation of India had sent 1,100 quintals of wheat to be distributed in Khandwa's r...
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Madhya Pradesh: Battle for food gets desperate, grain rotting continues
When hunger stalks, several stories of desperation are born. In Madhya Pradesh, Rajesh Gond, a tribal man, was arrested for stealing wheat from his neighbour's house so that he could feed his family. Rajesh stole a seventy-kilo sack of wheat worth one thousand rupees from his neighbour's house. For a tribal villager like him whose ...
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Wheat rots in Punjab, but Kashmir Kaur's family will starve
Putting food on the family's plate is an everyday battle for Kashmir Kaur. This happens in a state where at least 10 lakh metric tonnes of surplus wheat, is rotting outside government godowns - grain that should have been fed into a weakening public distribution system. Kaurs have a below poverty line ration card that entitles them to 35 kilos of w...
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Hunger spreads as foodgrains continue to rot in Madhya Pradesh
When malnutrition is the stark reality in most of the states, it is difficult to believe that food could be getting wasted due to lack of storage space. Nearly five thousand metric tons of wheat bought from local farmers by the Seoni district Cooperative society is rotting out in the rain. Even though, in the last one ...
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Rotting food: Three FCI officials suspended
A day after NDTV highlighted the criminal waste of foodgrain at a time when millions are going hungry in the country, the Food Ministry has cracked down.Three officials of the Food Corporation of India (FCI) have been suspended after an inspection which found foodgrain rotting in FCI warehouses in Uttar Pradesh. The FCI is responsible for the procu...
