Food security to take a hit from 40% pilferage

Dwarfing the government’s oft-quoted estimate that 20-30% of subsidised grain disbursed to the poor is siphoned away, the farm ministry’s Commission for Agricultural Costs and Prices (CACP) has now

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Publication Date: 
25/10/2013
Sandip Das
Financial Express (New Delhi)
Tags:
India, Food Security, Subsidies, Public Distribution System (PDS), National Sample Survey Organisation (NSSO), Poverty, Population, Food Policy