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LATEST NEWS UPDATES | Let there be no starvation deaths: Supreme Court

Let there be no starvation deaths: Supreme Court

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published Published on Sep 15, 2011   modified Modified on Sep 15, 2011

-The Hindu

 

The Supreme Court on Wednesday directed the Chief Secretaries of all the States to specify how much additional foodgrains were required for them under the Public Distribution System to ensure that there was no starvation death.

A Bench of Justices Dalveer Bhandari and Deepak Verma, passing orders on a petition filed by the People's Union for Civil Liberties on streamlining of the PDS, granted two weeks for the States for file their response. If they failed to do so, it would be deemed that no additional foodgrains were required for them from the Centre, the Bench said. It asked the Centre to computerise the PDS to stop pilferage and corruption.

The Justice Wadhwa Committee, in its report, told the court that pilferage and corruption occurred at every stage of the PDS and the situation could be salvaged to a large extent by computerisation. A public portal with complete information related to the PDS might be made. It should also have information on the date and the quantity of foodgrains supplied to fair price shops every month.

The committee said: “A drive can be started to eliminate fake and ghost ration cards. A comparison with data available with other departments like election, census, etc, gives the quick estimates about the bogus cards. It was seen that at some places, units in the ration cards exceeded even the populations of the area. These practices should be checked immediately. This can also be linked up with the Socio Economic Census in Rural Areas, which is expected to be completed within this year itself. The Government of India shall ensure that all the State governments prepare a time-bound action plan for complete computerisation of the PDS within three months. Strict deadlines may be fixed in the action plan and these will be submitted before the court within three months.

The Hindu, 15 September, 2011, http://www.thehindu.com/todays-paper/tp-national/article2454542.ece


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