{"id":10680,"date":"2011-05-15T13:56:55","date_gmt":"2011-05-15T08:26:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.legalindia.in\/news\/?p=10680"},"modified":"2011-05-15T13:56:55","modified_gmt":"2011-05-15T08:26:55","slug":"give-five-mn-tonnes-food-grains-in-150-poor-districts-court","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/give-five-mn-tonnes-food-grains-in-150-poor-districts-court","title":{"rendered":"Give five mn tonnes food grains in 150 poor districts: Court"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.legalindia.in\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/Supreme-Court4.png?ssl=1\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"10681\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/give-five-mn-tonnes-food-grains-in-150-poor-districts-court\/supreme-court-50\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2011\/05\/Supreme-Court4.png?fit=331%2C350&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"331,350\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"Supreme Court\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2011\/05\/Supreme-Court4.png?fit=141%2C150&amp;ssl=1\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2011\/05\/Supreme-Court4.png?fit=236%2C250&amp;ssl=1\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-10681\" title=\"Supreme Court\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.legalindia.in\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/Supreme-Court4.png?resize=331%2C350&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"331\" height=\"350\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2011\/05\/Supreme-Court4.png?w=331&amp;ssl=1 331w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2011\/05\/Supreme-Court4.png?resize=141%2C150&amp;ssl=1 141w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2011\/05\/Supreme-Court4.png?resize=236%2C250&amp;ssl=1 236w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 331px) 100vw, 331px\" \/><\/a>The Supreme Court Saturday directed the central government to release five million tonnes of food grains more for distribution among the vulnerable section of the population in 150 poorest districts of the country.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>In a special sitting, a bench of Justice Dalveer Bhandari and Justice Deepak Verma said that additional food grains for below poverty line (BPL) people will be distributed under the supervision of the Justice D.P. Wadhwa Committee.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The Justice Wadhwa Committee, in consultation with the central government, would identify the sections of the poor populace that should be reached with additional allocations, the court said.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>It directed the chief secretaries of the states that will receive the additional stock to first distribute their existing stocks of food grains and only then start distributing the additional allocations.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>During the last hearing of the matter, the central government had told the court it would release 50 lakh tonnes (five million) of food grains under the Public Distribution System (PDS).<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The court\u2019s direction came in the wake of a petition by the People\u2019s Union for Civil Liberties (PUCL) seeking direction to the central and the state governments ensuring that BPL families should get their share of allocated food grains.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>In the last hearing when the court\u2019s attention was drawn to reports on the burning of the contaminated foodgrains in Punjab, the court had said: \u2018What you (the central government) have done is not adequate. At least the grains (that) you can\u2019t store, you give them (to hungry).\u2019<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The court had asked the government why it could not give the surplus food grains, that it can\u2019t store, to the hungry people at subsidised rates.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>\u2018Why can\u2019t you give it subsidised rates to hungry populace. You have it. You can\u2019t store it. You can\u2019t destroy it. Give it to the people who need it,\u2019 the court said.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Supreme Court Saturday directed the central government to release five million tonnes of food grains more for distribution among the vulnerable section of the population in 150 poorest districts of the country. &nbsp; In a special sitting, a bench of Justice Dalveer Bhandari and Justice Deepak Verma said that additional food grains for below [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[3486,146,3484,3485],"class_list":["post-10680","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-top-law-news","tag-150-poor-districts","tag-court","tag-five-mn-tonnes","tag-food-grains"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.3 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Give five mn tonnes food grains in 150<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"The Supreme Court Saturday directed the central government to release five million tonnes of food grains\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/give-five-mn-tonnes-food-grains-in-150-poor-districts-court\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Give five mn tonnes food grains in 150\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"The Supreme Court Saturday directed the central government to release five million tonnes of food grains\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/give-five-mn-tonnes-food-grains-in-150-poor-districts-court\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Legal News India - Supreme Court &amp; 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