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New Delhi: Critics pan Modi's move to dismantle food agency
2015-02-16 07:09:36| Agriculture - Topix.net
Prime Minister Narendra Modi's ambitious bid to reform India's food security network by dismantling a 51-year-old corporation at the heart of the world's largest public food-distribution programme for the poor is proving to be a big challenge. Criticism is mounting against recommendations by a government panel that he set up to advise on the future of the state-owned Food Corporation of India - from food rights activists, farmers' groups and opposition parties.
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