A note from Sudeep Singh, Executive Director (Quality Control), Food Corporation of India Kindy refer to the above article “ India let 65 ...
A note from Sudeep Singh, Executive Director (Quality Control), Food Corporation of India
Kindy refer to the above article “India let 65 lakh tonnes of grain go to waste in four months, even as the poor went hungry” published on June 3 which is based on the extracts of a Research Paper titled “Covid 19 Lockdown – Impact on Agriculture and Rural Economy” published by Society for Social and Economic Research authored by Vikas Rawal, Manish Kumar, Ankur Verma and Jesim Pais. It is surprising to note that patently wrong information has been published in your online news portal without making any effort to check the facts and thereby giving completely wrong information to the public at large that 65 Lakh MT food grain has been wasted during last four months. This is a blatantly unfair interpretation of the actual stock position and doesn’t do justice to the performance of the Food Corporation of India.
According to the article and the data given in Table 5, it has been reported that 71.81 Lakh MT food grains is “not readily issuable”. This has been highlighted in the heading of the article as 65 Lakh MT food grains been allowed to go waste, without even bothering to cross...
