Rotting Foodgrain

• Foodgrain worth Rs 250 crore rots in Maharashtra godown, state government blames the Centre

  The Maharashtra government has shifted blame on Union Food and Agriculture Minister Sharad Pawar for the wastage of over two tonnes of rice, meant for poor. The foodgrain has been rotting in open godown for over two years in Gadchiroli district.

• 6,000 quintals of foodgrain rot in Jharkhand

  At a time when prices of essential commodities are spiralling, a whopping 6,000 quintals of foodgrain have been found rotting in a State Food Corporation (SFC) warehouse in Ranchi since 2006. The government said strict action will be taken against those found guilty."Around 5,000 quintals of wheat and 1,000 quintals of rice in the SFC godown in Ran...

• Enough food to feed 100 million people rots away

  The wheat lies in the sun. Lakhs of bags of it. The stamp on the jute bags says "2010-2011." This batch of wheat is produced from a crop that's just three months old.  It's rotting away. "This is the first time wheat has been stored here in the open. Earlier they stored it in a pucca plinth. Now there are more than 1.5 lakh bags out here,...

• Can't implement Supreme Court order on foodgrain: Sharad Pawar

  Union Agriculture Minister Sharad Pawar has responded to Supreme Court's recommendations of distributing grains to the poor for free instead of letting them rot. "It's not possible to implement the Supreme Court's order," the minister said.  On August 13, the apex court had asked the Centre to consider free distribution of foodgrain to the hun...

• Give free grains to hungry, don't let them rot: Supreme Court to Govt

  The Supreme Court has asked the Centre to consider free distribution of food grains to the hungry poor of the country instead of allowing it to rot in Food Corporation of India (FCI) godowns."Give it to the hungry poor instead of it (grains) going down the drain," a bench of Justices Dalveer Bhandari and Deepak Verma told Additional Solicitor Gener...

• Poor starve as grain rots in Uttar Pradesh

  The Supreme Court has rapped the government on rotting food grain, saying not a morsel should be wasted. But it will take some time before the message goes down to the ground, as food grain still rots as the poor go hungry.In Barabanki, one of the poor districts of Uttar Pradesh, foodgrain is rotting in a warehouse. Most bags of wheat here got soak...

• 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...

• Not a single food grain should be wasted: Supreme Court

  The Supreme Court has observed that not a single food grain should be wasted. In a strongly-worded ruling, the apex court has told the government that foodgrains are rotting and if you can't do anything about it then distribute it among the poor. The court has also sought government's response on this.Meanwhile, as the government faces flak over le...

• 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 ...

• After UP, now foodgrains rot in Maharashtra

  After scores of wheat bags sent by Central government were found rotting for the last one week in Etawah, here's another shocking revelation of wheat rotting in the FCI godowns in the Gondia District of Maharashtra. Food Corporation of India (FCI) in Gondia has six godowns which have a capacity of 30,000 ton. Inside the godowns, 9,000 ton of rice i...

• 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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  NDTV Impact: PM wants more food warehouses

  Following NDTV's reports on rotting foodgrain in various states because of improper storage facilities, the PM has asked for more warehouses to be built to ensure foodgrain is not stored in the open.

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  Punjab: Foodgrain rots, farmers helpless

  According to estimates, wheat grains worth up to Rs. 800 crore are rotting.