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LATEST NEWS UPDATES | Centre's 'Surplus' Rice to Ethanol Move Goes Back to a March Meeting Chaired by Modi -Kabir Agarwal

Centre's 'Surplus' Rice to Ethanol Move Goes Back to a March Meeting Chaired by Modi -Kabir Agarwal

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published Published on Jul 18, 2020   modified Modified on Jul 18, 2020

-TheWire.in

The decision, which has been severely criticised as it comes in the wake of rising hunger in the country, was defended by the government as being needed to manufacture alcohol-based hand sanitisers.

New Delhi: A high-level meeting chaired by Prime Minister Narendra Modi on March 3, 2020 all but cleared the way for the government’s much-criticised decision to convert ‘surplus’ rice to ethanol, information obtained by The Wire via the Right to Information (RTI) Act has revealed.  

The decision to allow the conversion of ‘surplus’ rice to ethanol was announced by the Centre on April 20 and has faced severe criticism because it comes at a time when food insecurity has grown across the country as millions have lost their livelihoods due to the COVID-19 setback to the economy.

Some experts have even called the move ‘unethical’.  

The meeting which paved the way for the conversion was held at the Prime Minister’s Office (PMO) and the agenda was to discuss “surplus stock of food-grains and opportunities for augmentation of ethanol production”, documents made available by the Ministry of Petroleum and Natural Gas show.

It was decided in this meeting that the agriculture ministry, in consultation with the food and public distribution ministry, “should take suitable decision to allow conversion of old stock of surplus rice to ethanol”.

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TheWire.in, 18 July, 2020, https://thewire.in/government/narendra-modi-surplus-rice-ethanol-sanitiser


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