-Live Mint
Narendra Modi is set to form a panel to assess how to overhaul the 50 year-old Food Corporation of India, say sources
About
thirty miles from New Delhi, a stray dog walks among sacks of wheat
rotting in a field. The grain is part of more than 3 million tonnes that
India stores in the open exposed to pests and damp, enough to feed
Kenya.
Simple plastic sheets at the site in
Sonepat in Haryana cover the sacks owned by Food Corporation of India, a
government agency at the heart of the world’s largest public food
distribution programme for the poor. As grains decay, 255 million
Indians remain food insecure because they eat less than 2,100 calories
daily, US department of agriculture data show.
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