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BJP Accuses UPA Govt Of Creating Food Inflation

Jaipur: There seems to be a deeper conspiracy behind the rotting foodgrains in FCI godowns across the country than meets the eye.
According to BJP national secretary Kirit Somaiya, the Congress-led UPA government was deliberately allowing the foodgrains to rot so as to benefit foreign institutional investors (FIIs), commodity traders and liqu

CHANDIGARH: Bharatiya Janata Party national secretary Kirit Somaiya said on Sunday that in spite of reprimand by the Supreme Court, the Centre seems little concerned about Rs.58,000 crore worth food grains rotting in various godowns.

He was speaking to media persons after inaugurating an exhibition on

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Blame stubborn procurement policy as the root of all evil

With the government sitting on heaps of foodgrain and with an acute shortage of quality storage facilities, analysts, some within the government, suggest exporting foodgrain and reviewing procurement policy.
The suggestion is gaining ground among advisors and experts, given the current global situation, where wheat pric

Dilip Kumar Jha / Mumbai September 28, 2010, 0:58 IST

Begins using TCS software for daily update of grain movement.

Changing a 46-year-old system, the Food Corporation of India (FCI), the public sector grain procurement agency, has decided to go online to make operations more transparent.

Concerned over wastage of around 40 lakh tonnes of PAU 201 variety of rice in Punjab, which was rejected by the Food Corporation of India, an empowered group of ministers (EGoM) on food will try to find a solution to the vexed issue on Thursday.

Sources said the EGoM headed by finance minister Pranab Mukherjee might suggest open market sale of the grain stock being held by the Punjab government

The goal of food for all can be achieved only through sustained efforts in producing, saving and sharing foodgrains.

The Supreme Court of India has rendered great service by arousing public, professional and political concern about the co-existence of rotting grain mountains and mounting hungry mouths.