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.

P. Sainath

When we have policies trample on people's rights, and people go to courts seeking redress, what should the courts do, Prime Minister?

Dear Prime Minister,

I was delighted to learn that you said, while also

It's all very well for the government to be happy about the increase in crop acreage, but what about food storage?
A K Bhattacharya / New Delhi September 14, 2010, 0:07 IST

The current mood in the various Bhavans around Raisina Hill is a little different from the general gloominess that marks the conversation of most residents of New Delhi.

Dr Manjit S.

Yoginder K Alagh

Under ideal conditions, grain storage options in India are built up from the buffer stock strategies. These, in turn, are derived from fluctuations in grain output and the need to ride through, say, two bad years.

Krishnadas Rajagopal

New Delhi: Hours after Prime Minister Manmohan Singh asked the Supreme Court not to get into

Siddharth Varadarajan

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Chief Economic Advisor Kaushik Basu has said the government should consider allowing export of essential foodgrains like wheat rather than let these rot due to lack of storage capacities and distribution channels.

He also said overhauling the public distribution system should be a top priority for the government.

Gargi Parsai

NEW DELHI: In the wake of the concern expressed by the Supreme Court at foodgrains rotting, the Union government on Thursday decided to release an additional 2.5 million tonnes of rice and wheat to the States for distribution to the poor under the Targeted Public Distribution System.

The grain will be sold at Below the Poverty Line (BPL) rates in the next six months.

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