Centre should double the grain procurement:
The Centre should double the current grain procurement, which is only 25% of the total production besides using the 2010 population figures to decide on the number of BPL people in the country, thus automatically expanding the number of recipients for distributing grain, the Right to Food Campaign has said.
The Centre's wheat procurement may touch 250 lakh tonnes in the 2009-10 marketing season, if it could procure from Bihar the same quantity of the foodgrain that it had bought a year ago.