Food Minister KV Thomas has ordered a probe into rotting wheat having been distributed in the Public Distribution System in Palwal, Haryana. On May 22, CNN-IBN's story showed how 80,000 sacks of wheat lay rotting and almost abandoned in Ghugera, Haryana. The report also said that rotting wheat had been distributed to BPL card holders systematically. Thomas told CNN IBN, "Nothing has been damaged, I assure you, and we are ...
09:42 AM, May 24, 2012
Food Minister KV Thomas has ordered a probe into rotting wheat having been distributed in the Public Distribution System in Palwal, Haryana. On May 22, CNN-IBN's story showed how 80,000 sacks of wheat lay rotting and almost abandoned in Ghugera, Haryana. The report also said that rotting wheat had been distributed to BPL card holders systematically. Thomas told CNN IBN, "Nothing has been damaged, I assure you, and we are...
09:42 AM, May 24, 2012
Chandigarh: Pungrain (Punjab Grains Procurement Corporation Ltd)and the FCI (Food Corportation of India) are expected to submit their replies in the Punjab and Haryana High Court on Wednesday in response to a petition filed over the wastage of grain in the state. A CNN-IBN report had revealed that the Punjab government was not using godowns to store grain and had left them to rot out in the open. It had...
10:42 AM, May 23, 2012
New Delhi: India is facing a problem of plenty. The Food Corporation of India (FCI) is anticipating an unprecedented storage problem in light of a record production of 252 lakh of foodgrain. Does this mean that precious grain that could feed millions will rot again this year? Notably, a lot of foodgrain got rotten in 2011 and the story is set to be repeated this year as well. However, Union...
08:26 AM, Apr 24, 2012
Darbhanga: Rotten wheat is being supplied for the Public Distribution System. The Bihar government has rejected and returned 150 metric tonnes of wheat to the Food Corporation of India. State Food Minister Shyam Rajak said that the grain delivered was unfit for consumption. The minister also alleged that the Centre had held back more than half of the wheat that Bihar had asked for. "The wheat sent was rotten. We...
08:21 AM, Oct 23, 2011
Bhopal: In Jabalpur, unseasonal rains have led to the damage of thousands of tonnes freshly procured wheat which were lying in the open. Procurement officials say that the wheat could not be stored because of lack of storage space. No one is willing to take accountability for the mess-up with the State government passing the buck blaming the Food Corporation of India (FCI) for the damage. The Madhya Pradesh government ...
04:32 PM, May 26, 2011
Bhopal: In Jabalpur, unseasonal rains have led to the damage of thousands of tonnes freshly procured wheat which were lying in the open. Procurement officials say that the wheat could not be stored because of lack of storage space. No one is willing to take accountability for the mess-up with the State government passing the buck blaming the Food Corporation of India (FCI) for the damage. The Madhya Pradesh government...
04:32 PM, May 26, 2011
Itanagar: Food crisis looms large in the remote Kurung Kumey district of Arunachal Pradesh following non-availability of essential commodities under the public distribution system (PDS) since the last couple of months. Most parts of the district, including Damin, Sarli and Parsi-Parlo circles, had witnessed rat menace during the early part of 2010, affecting the stock of food grains in the Food Corporation of India's (FCI) base depots in the state....
11:45 AM, Jan 07, 2011
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03:26 PM, Dec 11, 2010
15,000 metric tonnes of wheat rotting in floodwaters in Sirsa, Haryana. ...
03:49 PM, Jul 28, 2010
The foodgrains wasted in FCI godowns could feed millions. ...
09:20 PM, Aug 04, 2009
In all the FCI still has 1,19,000 mt of imported wheat and is desperate to dispose off. ...
12:54 AM, Feb 05, 2009
Kolkata: Kolkata Knight Riders coach Dav Whatmore on Thursday said the defeat at the hands of Kochi Tuskers Kerala would provide them with an opportunity to reassess their position in the ongoing IPL but warned his teammates against repeating the same mistakes again and again. KKR's two-match winning streak came to an end on Wednesday when Kochi beat the Gautam Gambhir-led side by six runs. But Whatmore said there was...
12:34 AM, Jan 18, 2008
The tragic saga of the FCI Director, kidnapped by ULFA, continues. ...
12:36 AM, Jul 13, 2007
Three people were killed in the encounter at around 2030 hours (IST). ...
10:02 AM, Jul 12, 2007
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