Food Grain Is Rotting and People Are Starving !

The news about food grain being let to rot instead of being fed to the poor, is making headlines all over India these days. The Supreme Court of India had to order the Central Government and specifically the Agricultural Minister, Mr. Sharad Pawar, to give it to the poor for free. But alas ! the grains would not be distributed for free.

It is such a shame that on one hand we present our image to the world of "India Shining", "The Emerging Superpower" but on the other hand we fail miserably to feed our own countrymen when there is absoulutely no dearth of food grains in India. We prefer to let them rot, let them be eaten by rats but no, we won't feed our people. One might remember reading recently that according to The Global Hunger Index, India has more hungry people than any other country in the world. And let me point out that here India scored worse than most Sub-Saharan African countries. 200 million Indians go hungry despite economic boom and self-sufficiency in food grains. Corruption and bureaucracy lead to poor food distribution policies and hence people starve and starve till they die.  What can be said when the highest court in India had to ORDER the central government to release food grains to its starving population !!