SC panel raps PDS for 'corruption'

Rs 28,000-crore subsidy annually spent by the Centre was being pocketed by vested interest

PTI | March 16, 2010



The Supreme Court-appointed vigilance committee has slammed the public distribution system (PDS) in the country for "rampant corruption, black marketing and diversion involving a vicious cartel of bureaucrats, fair price shop owners and middlemen".

The central vigilance committee headed by former Supreme Court judge Justice D P Wadhwa in its report to the apex court said the Rs 28,000-crore subsidy annually spent by the Centre was being pocketed by vested interest and suggested drastic action to stem the rot.

"Corruption is all pervasive in the entire chain involved in PDS. It continues to remain a formidable problem. It is true that most of the functionaries under them in the department are typically callous and resort to corrupt practices.

"It (corruption) is in fact a cancerous growth and has to be chopped off. Patchwork methods will not do.

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