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FCI refutes news about 65 lakh tonnes of foodgrain rot

Published: Jun 04, 2020

 

By TIOLCORPLAWS News Service

NEW DELHI, JUNE 04, THE Food Corporation of India (FCI) has strongly refuted report published yesterday in the online news portal ‘Scroll.in' with the heading "India let 65 lakh tonnes of grain go to waste in four months, even as the poor went hungry". Terming the news report as "blatantly unfair" and damaging the organisation's reputation, Mr Sudeep Singh, Executive Director (Quality Control), FCI, in a strongly worded letter to the website, said, "it is surprising to note that patently wrong information has been published 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 4 months".

Pointing out this being a blatantly unfair interpretation of the actual stock position, Mr Singh said there has been a gross misinterpretation by publishing an imaginary figure of 71.8 Lakh MT as "wasted stocks", when the actual quantity of food grains stocks that became non-issuable (damaged) during 2019-20 is just 1930 MTs, that too largely due to natural calamities like floods.

Quoting the website that the article is reportedly 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, the FCI claims to have spoken with Prof. Vikas Rawal, who is one of the co-authors and he confirmed that the data was taken by interpreting the stocks lying in mandies and in transit as "not readily issuable".

FCI clarifies both stock in mandies and stock in transit are absolutely fit for human consumption and under no circumstances can be labelled as "food grains wasted". "This wrong portrayal of FCI misleads the readers and could have been avoided, if the authors/researchers had approached FCI for interpretation of terminology/data, which are used in a specific context to explain the status of the stocks held," said Mr Singh.

 

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