Food For All - Inputs on Root Causes
Below are some of the Key Issues highlighted by you that prevent the availability of Food for All.
Please review and help identify Root Causes for these Issues.
Once we know the Root Causes, we will identify Solutions and submit our Citizens Whitepaper to the associated Ministries for actions.
I look forward to your participation!
Rajendra Pratap Gupta
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Food For All – Key Issues
1. A lot of food is wasted in marriages and festivals
2. People from below poverty line do not get enough food to eat
3. Even if the food is available, it is too costly for them to purchase
4. Food products are getting costlier by the day
5. Production is enough but the distribution channels are very inefficient
6. Public Distribution System for food is outdated
7. Distribution of food among the masses is unequal
8. Quality of food supplied by the public distribution system is bad
9. Pulses and grains are sold in black market before it reaches PDS shops
10. Essential food items that nourish the poor are increasingly going out of their reach
11. Middle class is burdened with highly priced packaged food
12. Food grains rot in FCI storage yards and are eaten by rodents
13. Hoarders hide food in the storage yards
14. Food adulteration is rampant more