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More than 45 years after Green Revolution began; India provides a unique spectre of overflowing godowns and rotting grains on the one hand while millions go to bed hungry. Having the largest population of hungry in the world, India ranks 66 among 105 countries in the 2012 Global Hunger Index. That too at a time when there is no shortage of food within the country. Recent record on the food grain stock in the country shows that the government of India is pilling up one of the world’s largest stockpiles of food grains amounting to around 667 lakh tonnes, as of January 2013. This is much higher than the government's rule of stocking up buffer stock of 250 lakh tonnes which must be maintained in a year.

To ensure that no starvation death takes place and people are saved from malnutrition as far as possible, the Supreme Court directed the centre to release five million tons of food grains immediately for distribution in 150 most poverty-stricken districts or other poorer segments in the country. The entire food production and distribution system therefore needs an urgent overhaul. If only the government was to focus on agricultural production, procurement and distribution in a decentralized manner, much of the agrarian crisis would disappear. There is a need is to take the following steps to address this paradox -