Water water every where

Water water every where
Not a drop to drink!
Thus goes the adage -

If I change it this way,how it will be?

Wheat n wheat every where
Not a single 'roti' to eat!

It was two decades back, in Muscat, Madame Valter Hagstong of Sweden,showed me a photo taken by her when she had come to India as a tourist.

In the picture it can be seen street urchins fighting for a morsel in the pavement of Bombay; no sorry Mumbai.

She showed the with a sarcastic smile on her lips. Poor Indians, she might have thought.

But what is the significance of that today? You may ask.

Yes,it has significance.

The other day there was a report in the news paper which read as follows:
50,000 mt of wheat have rotted and declared as unfit for human consumption.

Mind you this is India where even today a large number of people are finding it difficult to fill their stomachs even once a day.

As per government of India guide lines ,families below BPL are entitled for 35 kg of grains/month under the public distribution system. With this yard stick, 1,20,000 families could have been fed.

FCI, it is reported to has 17.8 million mt of food grins in gunny bags kept on elevated racks covered with gunny bags.

What will be the fate of this stock after the rains is not known.

The case has gone to the Supreme Court which has asked the Government to file an affidavit.It seems the Government's policy in thus regard is abysmal.

The Government should have distributed the grains freely to the poor and needy instead of rotting.

Nobel laureate Amartya Sen once pointed out that food grains available with FCI if stacked vertically would touch the moon.