Physical delivery and distribution of the grain and other foodstuffs to republic capitals should be independently monitored and relevant money transfers made to republic banks to ensure that the center is not able once again to abscond with or otherwise abuse for political purposes the proceeds of American largesse.

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Currently, the government provides subsidized food grain and other staples such as sugar through a notoriously corrupt and leaky public distribution system by which up to a third of the supplies never reach the intended beneficiaries, according to various estimates.

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But distribution is so poor that many still go hungry and government stocks of grain have reached 40m tonnes far more than is needed and very expensive to maintain.

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