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Rajasthan Governor seeks Food Corporation of India report on complaints of poor quality wheat
53,000 sacks of wheat are lying at a railway godown in Jaipur. Wheat that was purchased from Punjab is dumped there because of lack of storage space. Officials at the godown say, the wheat - 26 lakh kilos has now started emanating a bad smell and they have received complaints about the same from people in the vicinity too.
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As crops rot, millions go hungry in India
Every day some 3,000 Indian children die from illnesses related to malnutrition, and yet countless heaps of rodent-infested wheat and rice are rotting in fields across the north of their own country.
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Punjab: Wheat grain rotting
Two months back NDTV exposed how wheat grains worth hundreds of crores were rotting in the open. But even after the Prime Minister, Manmohan Singh intervened, little has changed in Punjab.What's worse, now, even fresh harvest is being stored in the open at some places, like Sirhind, where there are no covers to protect the wheat from rain.The sto...
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Rajasthan Governor seeks Food Corporation of India report on complaints of poor quality wheat
53,000 sacks of wheat are lying at a railway godown in Jaipur. Wheat that was purchased from Punjab is dumped there because of lack of storage space. Officials at the godown say, the wheat - 26 lakh kilos has now started emanating a bad smell and they have received complaints about the same from people in the vicinity too.
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As crops rot, millions go hungry in India
Every day some 3,000 Indian children die from illnesses related to malnutrition, and yet countless heaps of rodent-infested wheat and rice are rotting in fields across the north of their own country.
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Punjab: Wheat grain rotting
Two months back NDTV exposed how wheat grains worth hundreds of crores were rotting in the open. But even after the Prime Minister, Manmohan Singh intervened, little has changed in Punjab.What's worse, now, even fresh harvest is being stored in the open at some places, like Sirhind, where there are no covers to protect the wheat from rain.The sto...
