India: Starving slum dwellers dig up and eat rotten grain buried by FCI - Re-emerging World

India: Starving slum dwellers dig up and eat rotten grain buried by FCI

August 31, 2012

Ankur Sohanpal

1,206 bags of PDS rice belonging to the FCI (Food Corporation of India) were supposed to feed the poor but instead got wrapped in red-tape tussles between the railway and other authorities, and were ultimately buried after being rotten. However, they are now being dug up by slum dwellers in the Indian state of Odisha driven by extreme hunger. Read more here.

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