Food Siphoned Off

• Children's nutrition not spared from web of corruption

  It was after NDTV's investigative story in June this year that Maharashtra's Governor first ordered an inquiry into allegations that food meant for children in Maharashtra, under the Integrated Child Development Scheme (ICDS), was being siphoned off and in some cases, even sold off, as chicken feed.

• Food worth crores for poor children siphoned off in Maharashtra, finds Supreme Court panel

  In a grim reminder of the continuing misery of the poor in India, a report by a Supreme Court panel has revealed that food worth thousands of crores meant for underprivileged children in Maharashtra has been siphoned off by private companies. Instead, the children, who were entitled to the benefit under the anganwadi scheme, were fed stale and low-...

• Food for children sold for livestock: Middleman finally arrested

  The police have sprung into action after NDTV's expose showed how food for malnourished children in Thane district of Maharashtra was being siphoned off and sold as chicken feed. The middleman Yashwant Thakre who was ready to sell the food to NDTV, has been arrested and charged with cheating and misappropriation. The police arrested him on Thursda...

• Food for children sold as feed for livestock: Maharashtra suspends anganwadi worker

  The Maharashtra government has suspended an anganwadi supervisor and expelled another worker after an NDTV expose which showed that food meant for malnourished children was siphoned off and sold in the market as chicken feed.

• Food for tribals siphoned off in Maharashtra; villagers feel betrayed

  Villagers in Maharashtra's Thane district are angry, pained and feel betrayed by the government. This after NDTV exposed how food meant for malnourished children from this tribal belt is being siphoned off to feed chicken pigs and cattle. This area located just three hours away from Mumbai, has the highest number of malnourished children. The chil...

• Food for starving children sold as feed for livestock in Maharashtra; govt orders probe

  Food for malnourished children fed to cattle and chicken - a shocking and shameful reality in Maharashtra's Thane district that has sparked outrage across the country. An NDTV investigation found that nutrition supplements meant for underprivileged children in anganwadis are being siphoned by middlemen - allegedly in connivance with government offi...

• Maharashtra's horror: Food for starving children siphoned off, sold as feed for livestock

  It is tale of shame from Maharashtra's Thane district. An NDTV investigation has found that nutrition supplements meant for malnourished children in anganwadis are being siphoned off by middlemen, allegedly in connivance with government officials. The supplements are then sold to poultry and dairy farms as feed for livestock.

• Two held for siphoning off Public Distribution System grains

  Two persons were arrested after police recovered large quantity of food grain meant for distribution through public distribution system from a shop in Baramulla district of Kashmir. A police team conducted a raid on the store at Gulnar Colony in Baramulla and recovered 165 bags of rice, five bags of flour and four bags of sugar of Consumer Affair ...