As India is well know for high levels of corruption, much as $14.5 billion in food was looted by corrupt politicians and their criminal syndicates over the past decade in the area of Uttar Pradesh , according to data compiled by Bloomberg. The theft blunted the country’s only weapon against widespread starvation – A five decade-old public distribution system that has failed to deliver record harvests to the plates of India’s hungriest.
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