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Govt to give rotten foodgrains to poor at BPL price | The Central Government on Thursday decided to release an extra 2.5 million tonnes of food grains to the
various states for distribution among the poor at a BPL price following the directives of the Supreme Court on the issue of rotten food grains 'As an interim ad-hoc
measure, pending a final decision on the issue, the government is releasing an additional quantity of 2.5 million tonnes of wheat and rice to the states at a
BPL price for next six months,' said Union Agriculture Minister Sharad Pawar after a meeting of an Empowered Group of Ministers (EGoM) here today. "The government
is considering an overhaul of public distribution system including upgrading the
number of eligible BPL families. This is expected to increase the number of BPL
families eligible for assistance and corresponding increase in allocation by central
government," he added. Earlier on August 31, Pawar said the Government will accept
the directives of the Supreme Court on the issue of rotten food grains. The Supreme
Court had on August 31 asserted that it had ordered free distribution of food
grains to the poor instead of allowing them to rot in godowns, and added that
it was not a suggestion as made out by Sharad Pawar. "It was not a suggestion.
It is there in our order. You tell the Minister," the court told the government
counsel. Justices Dalveer Bhandari and Deepak Verma clarified that they had passed
an order, not an observation as was being made out in newspaper reports quoting
Pawar. Pawar had earlier said, "The Supreme Court's suggestion (for free distribution)
is not possible to implement." |
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