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| Distribute excess foodgrains free of cost among poor: Gadkari | | | Agencies
New Delhi, Sept 25: BJP President Nitin Gadkari on Saturday wrote to Prime Minister Manmohan Singh demanding that excess foodgrains in government godowns should be distributed free of cost to the poor affected by droughts and floods in different parts of the country.
"I would like to suggest to allocate the food grains lying in the FCI godowns to the flood/drought affected states as central assistance for free distribution among the victims," Gadkari said in his letter to the PM.
He suggested this could be done through respective public distribution system and other methods with "top priority to help those who have been uprooted and the farmers whose crop has been destroyed". Gadkari said the Supreme Court had on August 12, 2010 asked the Centre to consider free distribution of food grain to the poor instead of allowing it to rot in Food Corporation of India godowns. The BJP President maintained that 605 lakh tonnes of foodgrains were lying in government godowns against the optimum storage capacity of 425 lakh tonnes.
"As a result 180 lakh tonnes are lying in the open godowns and getting rotten," he said.
He expressed concern over the worsening flood situation in Uttarakhand, Eastern Bihar and Northern Uttar Pradesh, as well as some low-lying areas of Delhi. On the other hand, as a result of the unusually erratic monsoon, many areas have been officially declared as drought affected, he said.
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