Another application filed earlier by activist Dev Ashish Bhattacharya had revealed that between 1997 and 2007, some 183,000 tonnes of wheat, 633,000 tonnes of rice and 111,000 tonnes of maize were damaged at different FCI warehouses.
Minister of State for Food and Public Distribution K.V. Thomas had told parliament in a reply to a question in June that more than 6.6 million tonnes of wheat, meant for sale through state-run fair-price shops, was lying in the open.
The state-run corporation is the main grain procurement agency for the government. It stores the procured grain in the warehouses of Central Warehousing Corp, state warehousing corps and private 'godowns'.
