Hi Friends,

Even as I launch this today ( my 80th Birthday ), I realize that there is yet so much to say and do. There is just no time to look back, no time to wonder,"Will anyone read these pages?"

With regards,
Hemen Parekh
27 June 2013

Now as I approach my 90th birthday ( 27 June 2023 ) , I invite you to visit my Digital Avatar ( www.hemenparekh.ai ) – and continue chatting with me , even when I am no more here physically

Friday 29 July 2011

STILL, WHY MILLIONS GO HUNGRY ?

29 July 2011

STILL,  WHY  MILLIONS  GO  HUNGRY  ?

Following is the current scenario of food grains in India :
  
·      Food grain production :
·     2009 – 10  ………………….  218 million tons
·     2010 -  11  ………………….  241 million tons
  
·      Stocks held ( as on June 2011 ) :

·     65.5 million tons
  
·      Food grains needed by 2020-21

·     281 million tons
  
·      Additional storage capacity approved on 15 July,2011 :

·     15.2 million tons
  
·     Annual wastage of food grains due to rotting in open:

·     55 million tons – valued at $ 12.2 billion ( as per Colin Gonsalves-Civil Rights Lawyer )
  
It is not difficult to see why 3 million people ( mostly children ) die of starvation in India every year !

And given the current generation of corrupt / criminal politicians having powerful vested interest in maintaining status quo, a 100 million children will die of starvation before things change for better !

May be India is another Somalia in making !

With regards


Hemen Parekh

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