Criminal waste: wheat rots in Maharashtra

Arvindc said:
4000 metric tonnes of wheat have gone to waste at the warehouse at Gondia in Vidharbha
The wheat was left in open despite inough storage space in the wherehouse.

link: http://ibnlive.in.com/videos/127277/poor-storage-led-to-rotting-of-wheat-again.html?from=rhs

Just thinking.. how easy it is for goverment officials to waste the hard earned tax payers money.
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this is happning all over india as approximate 30-to 35 % of stored grain rote or eaten up by rates and animals.
 
ravinderjeet said:
this is happning all over india as approximate 30-to 35 % of stored grain rote or eaten up by rates and animals.
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30-35% is a huge number. I saw reports last year which said there are people in Orissa who are literally dying of hunger.

There is lack of accountability in the goverment services. Political parties hardly bother about the wastage of Tax payers money. May be because most of the tax paying class does not cast vote. Wondering when would the working class wake up of their rights?

Could bringing every in the tax bracket be another solution?
 
Arvindc said:
Could bringing every in the tax bracket be another solution?
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and too without paying the taxpayers back their money? developed countries tax their people but they also take care of them when they are unemployed or get old. What do we get in return?
 
Arvindc said:
30-35% is a huge number. I saw reports last year which said there are people in Orissa who are literally dying of hunger.

There is lack of accountability in the goverment services. Political parties hardly bother about the wastage of Tax payers money. May be because most of the tax paying class does not cast vote. Wondering when would the working class wake up of their rights?

Could bringing every in the tax bracket be another solution?
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Bringing everyone is tax bracket makes a sense when govt provide social security...As on today there is no social security in our country....Marooge ke gariba ne... :)
 
hemanthooda said:
Now the govt has admitted that 61,000 tonnes of food grain has got rotten due to poor/no storage.

http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/...nnes-of-foodgrain-rot/articleshow/6221436.cms

Why does Govt procure so much when it do not have proper storage facilities???This is criminal wastage/negligence on the part of govt when lakhs of people are starving.Accountability must be fixed by PM & Sharad Pawar must resign!!!
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PM sardarji is a joke. Sharad Pawar has blood on his hands ... he is probably responsible for killing more people than Hitler ...... his corruption leading to starvation, suicides etc etc.
 
As on Jan 1 this year, 10,688 lakh tonnes of food grains were found damaged in FCI depots, enough to feed over six lakh people for over 10 years.

The storing capacity of covered godowns of FCI is around 256.64 lakh tonnes and the total stored stock is around 218.35 lakh tonnes.

'The FCI godowns have enough space to store food grains properly. Yet the grains are rotting in open spaces on their premises while millions are starving. It's a national shame,' said Dev Ashish Bhattacharya, who filed the RTI application on January 6, 2010.

Thanks Dev Ashish Bhattacharya for bringing these statistics to us.

Link: http://in.news.yahoo.com/43/20100727/812/tnl-food-grains-rot-in-fci-godowns-acros.html
 
FCI corruption led to grain rot

tracking hunger - FCI corruption led to grain rot - Manish Tiwari -manish.tiwari CHANDIGARH

Link: http://epaper.hindustantimes.com/PU...-led-to-grain-rot-28072010008003.shtml?Mode=1

Intrestingly, the link of this news at the main page on Hindustan times portal is not working. Main page link: http://www.hindustantimes.com/news-feed/india-news/sid112.aspx

@hindustantimes.com : Hemant Gupta's 30,000-tonne foodgrain storage godown is one of the largest in Ferozepur. In 1978, the Food Corporation of India (FCI) rented it from him, agreeing to pay Rs 75,000 per month.
In 2004, says Gupta, the FCI vacated his godown, shifting all the grain to a field nearby. Why? “It's plain corruption,“ explained Gupta. Storing in the open gives officials the sanction to buy many more gunny bags, wooden crates, tarpaulin sheets and fumigating material, all in the name of preserving the grain well.
Kickbacks can be sought on all of these. “There's hardly any accountability,“ he concluded.

Sandeep Gilhotra, president of the Punjab Godown Owners Association, endorsed Gupta.
“FCI has always promoted open storage as it gives people an opportunity to earn more money,“ he alleged.

Again in 1978, the FCI rented Col T.S. Dhillon's 7,500-tonne capacity godown at Chabal, Amritsar for Rs 15,000 a month, (at 40 paise per sq ft).

Thirty-two years later he gets just 67 paise per sq foot -a monthly rent of Rs 25,500 -though the FCI pays up to Rs 2.40-2.50 per sq foot for godowns they have rented in recent years.

“My godown is just as good as any other but I get four times less rent. Why?“ asked Col.
Dhillon.
“He is right. We, too, feel there should be a uniform policy,“ Punjab's FCI senior regional manager Nilkanth S. Avhad admitted.

The absence of uniformity has even prompted some of the owners of old godowns -some are paid as little as 32 paise per square foot -to consider demolishing their godowns.

While the country reworks the Food Security Bill to ensure sufficient food for all, the wastage of grain during storage, transit and on account of pilferage/theft still remains a major issue.

In the past four years, an estimated 6-lakh tonnes of foodgrains have been lost due to poor storage facilities across India, while about 6.75 lakh tonnes was lost in transit. In Punjab, 48,315 metric tonnes wheat have been declared unfit for human consumption by the FCI in the past three years.

(Tracking Hunger is an HT and Mint initiative to investigate and report the struggle to rid India of hunger. You can read previous stories at www.hindustantimes.com/ trackinghunger)
 
Rotting foodgrain: Supreme Court seeks Govt response

Has the country's governance fallen to Supreme court from the hand of our beloved parliamentarians?


The Supreme Court on Tuesday reacted to Hindustan Times’s report on grain rotting in the country for want of storage facilities (‘India lets grain rot instead of feeding poor’, HT, July 26) saying it was a crime to waste food in a poor country.

Reading out portions of the report, a bench headed by Justice Dalveer Bhandari sought a response to HT’s investigation from the government, declaring that grain should never be allowed to rot but be distributed among the hungry. It also directed its commissioner to submit a report on the rotting of foodgrain in six states.


Colin Gonsalves, counsel for the People’s Union of Civil Liberties, in a public interest litigation case relating to right to food, brought the HT report to the apex court’s attention.

“If you cannot store the grain, give it to the people to eat,” the judges told additional solicitor general Mohan Parasaran, representing the Centre.

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In any other country, allowing so much grain to go waste would be seen, justifiably, as criminal negligence. In a country with the dubious distinction of the highest number of starvation deaths, a nation that is ranked 66th out of 88 countries (behind Cameroon, Nigeria and, believe-it-or-not, even Sudan) in the Global Hunger Index, and where the hardest lesson that almost half the mothers have to teach their children is the lesson of how to live with hunger — genocidal negligence describes it better.

How does a country with the most number of hungry people in the world manage such a feat, year after year?


Link: http://www.hindustantimes.com/columns/Toads-for-breakfast/578708/H1-Article1-578628.aspx
 
Arvindc said:
30-35% is a huge number. I saw reports last year which said there are people in Orissa who are literally dying of hunger.

There is lack of accountability in the goverment services. Political parties hardly bother about the wastage of Tax payers money. May be because most of the tax paying class does not cast vote. Wondering when would the working class wake up of their rights?
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They do cast vote but only to the one who gives assurance of fulfilling their individual interest.. This class is also very concerned of their rights but only the one pertaining to individual benefits..

Now the problem is that this issue of wastage of grain in warehouse pertains to a problem of national interest or public interest which doesn’t affect the working class directly.. Therefore why this working class bother to question their political boss and make him unhappy who is already helping them to realize some illegal benefits?
In my opinion it is this section of the society who nourishes this political corruption. The action of working class or intellectual class is limited to the discussion in a public form, blog, articles, or in a TV show.. That’s it.

Wastage of grain in warehouse is a matter of sheer negligence and unaccountability but this system is there to stay as long as the poor section or I say non-tax payer section of the society wake up.. because only they are capable of brining any revolution .. I have no expectation from this so called intellectual or tax payer section of society
 
This is gross negligence and mismanagement on the part of concerned governmental agencies and the big boss, Shri Sharad Pawar, not only owes an explanation to the nation, but also should tender his resignation on moral grounds. So far, there are no such indications that he would do so. Also, the government does not have nerves to remove him from his lucrative post – thanks to coalition politics. This Maratha Machiavelli (also nicknamed as Sugar Daddy) is a past master in manipulative politics; has weathered many political storms in his long political carrier and does not seem to be buckling under pressure on this issue from the leading coalition partners. But, what is most intriguing is why the electorates return such people to the legislative organs in spite of knowing their doubtful integrity. In my assessment, it is the electorates who are real culprits as they are driven by sectarian/parochial approach in deciding their political loyalty.

According to some media reports, the warehouses meant for storing food grain are being leased out by the concerned government agencies to some commercial organizations as it was fetching hefty rental to meet the establishment cost of these warehouses viz. salary of staff etc. This is not a plausible explanation. Government must take it very seriously and should take preventive measures in future.
It is hoped that media, especially TOI will somehow come to know the resentment of Jatlanders and will convey the same to the government.
 
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Opposition should raise this issue in parliament & other forums to put pressure on govt apart from the ongoing price rise issue!!!!
 
mukeshkumar007 said:
They do cast vote but only to the one who gives assurance of fulfilling their individual interest.. This class is also very concerned of their rights but only the one pertaining to individual benefits..

Now the problem is that this issue of wastage of grain in warehouse pertains to a problem of national interest or public interest which doesn’t affect the working class directly.. Therefore why this working class bother to question their political boss and make him unhappy who is already helping them to realize some illegal benefits?
In my opinion it is this section of the society who nourishes this political corruption. The action of working class or intellectual class is limited to the discussion in a public form, blog, articles, or in a TV show.. That’s it.

Wastage of grain in warehouse is a matter of sheer negligence and unaccountability but this system is there to stay as long as the poor section or I say non-tax payer section of the society wake up.. because only they are capable of brining any revolution .. I have no expectation from this so called intellectual or tax payer section of society
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May be you are right. This intellectual class thinks about itself as "too smart".
 
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