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| Food for children sold as livestock |
| Food for children sold as livestock: Middleman finally arrested
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| INDIA
, 13-July-2012
5:47:56 AM |
| 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 Thursday night, after viewing NDTV's unedited footage that clearly shows how he was part of a nexus, that first siphoned the food supplements and then sold it in the open market as food for livestock.
This arrest comes two days after the Maharashtra government suspended an anganwadi supervisor and expelled another worker.
Governor K Sankaranarayanan too discussed the issue with Minister of Women and Child Development Varsha Gaikwad, and other officials of the department.
An NDTV investigation in June found that middlemen - allegedly in connivance with government officials - sold the nutrition supplements meant for underprivileged children in anganwadis to poultry and dairy farms as feed for livestock. The embarrassing expose prompted the Centre to order a probe into this alarming irregularity.
The NDTV team posed as potential buyers and approached middleman Yashwant Thakre. Once the NDTV team gained his confidence, he showed the team empty packets of the supplements. The contents of the packets had been emptied into larger gunny bags and stored at his house. Mr Thakre told the NDTV team, "This comes from the government talukas. The supply that comes to the taluka, we get hold of with a little bit of adjustment. This belongs to the government. You cannot sell it outside."
Anticipating a large order, Mr Thakre gave the NDTV team samples in packets that were marked 'Not for Sale'.
Maharashtra has 95,380 functioning anganwadis. The state, with the Central government's assistance, spends Rs. 1280 crore each year on providing nutrition to children through these anganwadis. In spite of this,
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