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Two Union ministers spar over 'Food for work' plan-Subodh Ghildiyal & Nitin Sethi

Two Congress ministers, both known to be pro-poor, have locked horns over an unusual proposal. Union Food minister K V Thomas has suggested that part of the wages under the job-guarantee scheme be paid in foodgrains. But, Union rural development minister Jairam Ramesh thinks the move could wreck the flagship scheme since it is an improvisation on the Food for Work programme of 1970s. The RD minister thinks MNREGA could go...

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The Raja Who Stole From The Poor-Ashish Khetan

As Food and civil supplies minister in the previous SP regime, Raja Bhaiya swindled Rs 100 crore from the PDS. As he presides over the Food ministry once again, Ashish Khetan exposes the shocking loot A LITTLE MORE than a month ago, Akhilesh Yadav, chief minister of Uttar Pradesh, earned a landslide victory on the idea of hope: Ummeed ki cycle. He had promised clean governance and a corruption-free government. When...

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Imagine a poverty line-Surjit S Bhalla

No matter where you draw the line, the fall in poverty is greater in high GDP growth years   Some plain facts and some ugly truths. The plain fact is that poverty in India has declined at a rapid pace during the UPA years post 2004. An ugly truth. When the Planning Commission released the estimates of poverty in India, on the basis of the household survey conducted by the NSS in...

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Not much on the plate by Samar Halarnkar

I have never been to Brazil's "beautiful horizon", Belo Horizonte, the country's third-largest metropolitan area and an information and bio-technology hub, but I have followed the city's progress against what was once its enduring shame: hunger. In 1993, when 11% of its 2.5 million people lived in absolute poverty and a fifth of Belo's children went hungry, a newly-elected government declared that Food was a fundamental right of every citizen,...

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Granaries to graveyards

-The Business Standard   Too much grain, and no way to distribute it In about a month from now, the country’s ever-bulging foodgrain stockpile will bloat further to over 75 million tonnes, a record amount. This will be nearly two-and-a-half times the stipulated maximum Food buffer. Worse, it will outstrip the available warehousing capacity (covered and open) of 63 million tonnes by a wide margin. Even today, a good part of the present...

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