Supriya Sharma has reported in the Times Of India (dated June 12, 2011) that corruption feeds on Public Distribution System (PDS) grain as poor go hungry in Dantewada district of Chhattisgarh State. The joint visit of Harsh Mander, the Supreme Court's emissary and Vivek Dhand, the food Secretary of Chattisgarh followed by the enquiry of Rajiv Jaiswal, the joint Director of the state food corporation have proved this fact beyond any doubt. By the way the state government has earned copious praise from every corner for the best practices put in place in PDS of the state. I have the feeling that the system has evolved its own notorious ways of swindling the public resources to benefit a few influential individuals both in the ruling party and bureacracy. Under the banner of panchayats and the cooperatives and self-helf groups the system takes care of those day-time robbers in a perfect manner. While in the country-side the quotas lifted are scientifically and systematically siphoned off easily and sold in the black market straigtaway, the black money creation and distribution in the urban centers is done with thousands and thousands of bogus ration cards in circulation without any checks. Once the author as the Food Secretary of the department earned the ire of the chief minister for having revealed this fact to the press in Bilaspur in 2006.
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