Thane: While the Food Security Bill is expected to be tabled in the Parliament soon, it has come to light that as much as 7.42 lakh tonnes of foodgrain, worth Rs 330.71 crore, was damaged in the past 10 years in the country due to various reasons. The Food Corporation of India (FCI) has revealed this information in response to an RTI query, filed by a local activist Om Prakash...
02:33 PM, Dec 21, 2011
Two days after CNN-IBN's report on the grain rot, Food minister KV Thomas takes responsibility and promises action. ...
08:56 AM, Aug 11, 2011
New Delhi: Thousands of tonnes of foodgrain is in a shocking state of decay in Haryana, while the rest is vulnerable to damage. It has been left to rot in the mandis of Haryana, just 60 kilometers away from New Delhi. Foodgrain has been kept in a shocking state of decomposition with insects and worms feeding on what was meant for human beings. The water gathering in pools makes it...
08:54 AM, Aug 09, 2011
Kolkata: Attributing rising prices to increase in procurement costs, Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee on Sunday said the Centre was trying to control food inflation. "Foodgrain prices have increased due to escalating procurement prices," Pranab told. Mukherjee, however, said the production of pulses has increased. Pranab pointed out that high procurement prices of foodgrain was also contributing to inflation. The Minimum Support Price (MSP) paid to farmers for wheat rose from...
11:04 PM, Jul 17, 2011
Ludhiana: Tens of thousands of bags of rice have gone up in smoke and continue to smolder and burn in Khamano near Ludhiana. Spread over two kilometers all the grain has been lying in the open for the last five years. A similar story was there in Fatehgarh Sahib, where wheat has been rotting in the open for the past few years, and now brand new grain from this year's...
10:47 PM, Jun 30, 2011
New Delhi: Despite India spending over two per cent of GDP in social protection schemes, their returns in terms of poverty reduction are yet to reach full potential, a World Bank report has said, pointing to "high leakages" in PDS and "uneven implementation" of MNREGA across states. The report, the first comprehensive review of India's social welfare and anti-poverty initiatives, said about 60 per cent of grains released by government...
06:36 PM, May 18, 2011
New Delhi: One third of India's food reserves dumped on raised platforms, some covered with polythene, the rest uncovered and visibly wasting away. For the untrained eye this was plainly an unscientific and irresponsible method of storing foodgrain. But the government kept saying that this was purely an "indigenous" method of storage. They called it,"cover and plinth" or CAP storage. But after official acknowledgment of at least 67,000 metric tonnes...
10:57 AM, Nov 23, 2010
Free mobile phones to the poor instead of foodgrains. In such a scenario, what are the key challenges India needs to deal with? ...
08:32 PM, Sep 11, 2010
On India at 9, CNN-IBN Editor-in-Chief Rajdeep Sardesai spoke to a panel of experts on the issue. ...
11:03 PM, Aug 31, 2010
New Delhi: Annual food inflation fell to 10.35 per cent for the week ended August 7 as prices of vegetables, specially potato and onion, declined. Food inflation, which was 11.40 per cent for the week ended on July 31, is in double digits for the second consecutive week, after it remained in single digit for a fortnight in mid-July. On a yearly basis, potato became cheaper by almost 50 per...
01:20 PM, Aug 19, 2010
New Delhi; The Supreme Court has intervened on the rotting food grain issue. The apex court has asked the government to distribute grain that's getting damaged among the poor free of cost. The pictures of rotting food grains first exposed by CNN-IBN shocked a nation and attracted the attention of the Supreme Court. A worried court said, "In a country where admittedly people are starving it is crime to waste...
12:52 PM, Aug 12, 2010
15,000 metric tonnes of wheat rotting in floodwaters in Sirsa, Haryana. ...
03:49 PM, Jul 28, 2010
Reports say that almost 17.8 million tonnes of wheat and rice are stored under tarpaulins across India. ...
12:21 PM, Jul 27, 2010
CNN-IBN had exposed the criminal negligence behind the rotting of one lakh quintals of grain. ...
06:49 PM, Jul 26, 2010
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FCI General Manager of Northern Region has also started an inquiry into the matter. ...
11:08 PM, Jul 21, 2010
Foodgrains will be included in VAT and the rate is likely to be at 5 per cent. ...
09:06 PM, Dec 30, 2009
Three months of patchy rains have sent food prices soaring. ...
11:29 PM, Sep 03, 2009
India will have to depend upon itself for its food security, says Anand Sharma. ...
10:01 PM, Aug 18, 2009
ASSOCHAM says India's total foodgrain production could fall by 20 pc in 2009. ...
05:14 PM, Aug 10, 2009
The foodgrains wasted in FCI godowns could feed millions. ...
09:20 PM, Aug 04, 2009
