State run onion auctions in India found to be rigged
An probe by India Today TV investigative team discovered how the state's food-supply chain was involved in what appears to be a systemic loot of onions from government purchase yards.
Last month, farmers erupted in angry protests after prices of their bumper crop crashed. Shaken by their violent agitation, chief minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan's government picked up more than nine lakh tons onions at a higher MSP of Rs 8 a kilo.
Ideally, the produce should have been auctioned off to traders at highest possible rates. But it was not, India Today TV investigation noticed. Instead, bureaucrats at the helm were found to be choreographing bidding processes to the advantage of a handful of merchants in exchange for hefty bribes.
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