Punjab has yet again reaped a bumper crop, but the big question is where will it be stored? Starting April 1, 150 lakh tonnes of wheat are set to arrive in Punjab's procurement centres, but only 60 lakh tonnes can be stored safely. ...
06:22 AM, Mar 29, 2013
The driver of a firm associated with liquor baron late Ponty Chadha on Monday escaped with an amount to the tune of Rs 10 lakh from Gurdaspur district, police said. On the complaint of Jaspreet Singh Seth, Vice President of 'AB food grains', associated with Chadha, a case was registered against Amritsar resident Rajesh Kumar for escaping with the amount, SHO Sri Hargobindpur Gurbhinder Singh said. ...
10:12 PM, Dec 31, 2012
Chandigarh: Decrying the lack of proper sanitation facilities, Rural Development Minister Jairam Ramesh on Friday said toilets built over the last 10 years across the country are being used for storing food grain. "In last 10 years, toilets have been built (across the country)...But toilets are not being used for the purpose for which they had been built. They are being used for storing food grain...they have been turned into...
05:14 PM, Jul 06, 2012
Kota: There has been yet another shocking case of damage to food grains due to rains in Rajasthan's Kota district. Food grains to the tune of Rs 2 crore were neglected by Food Corporation of India (FCI) officials. Famers have now logded a case against Food Corporation of India (FCI) officials, alleging that they did not make adequate arrangement, despite assurances by food minister KV Thomas to CNN-IBN. This comes...
11:39 AM, Jun 09, 2012
Chandigarh: Even as the country is grappling with the problem of big grain drain, another instance of gross wastage of the wheat in Punjab has come to light. Due to lack of storage facilities and lack of clearance of earlier stock, fresh wheat is being piled up by the roadside, getting drenched in pre-monsoon showers and rotting. In Muktsar and Ferozepur, the Punjab government was unable to provide for adequate...
09:24 AM, Jun 24, 2011
New Delhi/ Chandigarh: Biraj Patnaik, a special advisor to the Supreme Court, will bring the case of rice being burnt at a godown in Punjab to the court's attention. Patnaik will take up the cause just a day after CNN-IBN reported how thousands of tonnes of rice in Punjab was burnt to ashes after lying in the open for five years. "Hundred children die of malnutrition every hour. We have ...
11:44 AM, May 10, 2011
New Delhi/ Chandigarh: Biraj Patnaik, a special advisor to the Supreme Court, will bring the case of rice being burnt at a godown in Punjab to the court's attention. Patnaik will take up the cause just a day after CNN-IBN reported how thousands of tonnes of rice in Punjab was burnt to ashes after lying in the open for five years. "Hundred children die of malnutrition every hour. We have...
11:44 AM, May 10, 2011
India has been subsidizing its rice exports to Bangladesh. But still the deal doesn't seem to be materializing. ...
11:49 AM, Dec 19, 2010
New Delhi: A third of India's foodstocks left in the open to rot. Thousands of tonnes already spoilt. It might have forced the Government and particularly the Food Corporation of India (FCI) to aggressively look for more storage and take steps to save the stocks. But the FCI has other ideas up its sleeve- outsourcing India's food security. Well, almost! CNN-IBN's RTI query revealed the rather controversial proposal from the...
07:46 AM, Dec 02, 2010
Punjab: Fifty-five thousand metric tonnes of food grains rotted in Punjab alone and thousands of tonnes more across the nation. The pictures of rotting grains might have shocked us, but not Adesh Pratap Singh, the Food Minister of Punjab and certainly not Union Agriculture Minister Sharad Pawar and Prime Minister Manmohan Singh. The documents accessed by CNN-IBN through an RTI revealed that this rot was expected. A copy of a...
09:16 AM, Oct 25, 2010
New Delhi: India's attempt at food diplomacy has met with little success. An RTI query reveals that due to various problems even Bangladesh was not interested in Indian food grains. Bangladesh is eager to buy, India more than eager to sell the grains and the Food Corporation of India (FCI) wanting to hurry the process or so it seemed. Now, documents accessed by CNN -IBN through an RTI reveal the...
09:27 PM, Oct 21, 2010
Jaipur: Over 1000 Below Poverty Line (BPL) card holders in Rajasthan, got free cell phones, instead of the free food grains. It seemed the UPA Government would rather let the food grains rot in open than distribute them for free to the poor. The Government felt it more important to distribute cell phones to the poor in Minister of State for Communication and Information Technology Sachin Pilot's constituency of Ajmer....
09:11 AM, Sep 10, 2010
Jaipur: Over 1000 Below Poverty Line (BPL) card holders in Rajasthan, got free cell phones, instead of the free food grains. It seemed the UPA Government would rather let the food grains rot in open than distribute them for free to the poor. The Government felt it more important to distribute cell phones to the poor in Minister of State for Communication and Information Technology Sachin Pilot's constituency of Ajmer....
09:11 AM, Sep 10, 2010
Excess food grains have been rotting in godowns for months, but Union Agriculture Minister Sharad Pawar continues to say that it is not possible to distribute grains for free among the poor. ...
11:46 AM, Sep 04, 2010
New Delhi: Agriculture Minister Sharad Pawar on Thursday said the government is considering a hike in the quantity of foodgrains under the Public Distribution System (PDS) along with an upgradation in the number of eligible Below Poverty Line (BPL) families. "The government is considering an overall increase in PDS including an upgradation in the number of eligible BPL families," Pawar told reporters here after a meeting of the Empowered Group...
10:28 PM, Sep 02, 2010
Millions of food grains are wasted every year due to storage problem. ...
11:14 PM, Jul 27, 2010
The Food Corporation of India has suggested that the government export food grains at prices much lower than the existing market price. ...
09:39 PM, Jul 27, 2010
In all, the government suspended nine Food Corporation of India (FCI) offic ...
10:13 AM, Jul 22, 2010
In a CNN-IBN exclusive, we show you how masses of wheat had been left lying around by the FCI. ...
12:15 AM, Apr 10, 2010
The annual inflation rate was 3.5 per cent in February 2009. ...
06:52 PM, Mar 15, 2010
