Posts
How often do we listen about cases of death due to starvation or malnutrition in India? The media is abuzz with such disturbing incidents for quite some time now. Don't these shocking incidents seem out of place when the country seems to be doing pretty well economically while most of the world is still struggling with after effects of recession?
In the backdrop of this kind of death and deprivation when I learnt about the recent shameful incident of HUGE quantity of food grain rotting, caused by callousness of Food Corporation of India, I watched the news in disbelief. What shocked me more was our Union Agriculture minister's response, devoid of any remorse or guilt!! In country like ours, where we are highly dependent on agriculture, criminal waste of food occurs due to lack of adequate storing space! And who is responsible for such deplorable administrative negligence and evident foul play really?
As our honorable minister said, "such things happen sometimes", oh yeah, they sadly do! Specially when there is overwhelming dereliction of duty by FCI officials. Isn't it high time to crack the whip at the corrupt people responsible for this atrocious act? Creating logistics should not be a problem IF there is a political will to find solution. India is headed to achieve double digit growth in near future but can we take pride when people are still dying of hunger, poverty, malnutrition and millions of tonnes of food grain wasted due to corruption and greed? For any nation with conscience, even a single such death is a matter of shame and great concern.
So, Mr. minister, please remember that such serious omissions are beyond pardon. Such things should NEVER happen again. Ever!
