India's Poor Starve as Politicians Steal Their Food

摘要

A 20-minute drive from the Indian vil-lage of Satnapur, past bone-dry fields and groups of malnourished children, there's a government storage facility overflowing with wheat and rice. The complex is five football fields long and holds 57,000 tons of food meant for some of the nation's 350 million families living below the poverty line of 50(f a day. None of it is reaching the 106 households inSatna-pur eligible for the rations.