Click to play videoKhandwa (Madhya Pradesh): Days after CNN-IBN exposed how inedible, imported wheat was being sold to the poor in Khandwa, the government has gone into an overdrive.
An inquiry has been instituted and red wheat in the Dabiya village of Madhya Pradesh has been replaced.
“They took away 25 quintals of red wheat and replaced it with white wheat. They filtered dirt from red wheat and collected clean wheat in bags as samples which they took,” says a Dabiya resident Gajraj Katare
CNN-IBN had showed how the poor were being made to buy red, worm-infested wheat imported from Australia. Villagers here say the officers had tried tactics with them. “They asked me to sign saying that the red wheat was good,” says a villager.
Dabiya might have a better stock but in villages nearby, consignments of worm-infested imported red wheat still fill up godowns.
“I am sitting beside a sack of the Australian red wheat. We will file a PIL,” says activist with Spandan, Prakash Mathews.
Ironically, this expensive imported rotten wheat is being sold in an area already hit by malnutrition and starvation, being sold by the Government of the world's second largest wheat producer.
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