Tuesday, April 3, 2007

RTI Expose: SFAC-Is it helping small Farmers or helping Bureaucrats

Small Farmers Agri-Business Consortium ( SFAC) is a society formed by Ministry of Agriculture to help small farmers . On the analysis of information provided by body under RTI it revealed that the body instead of helping small farmers in their agri business is engaged to help the top bureaucrats in the agriculture ministry by providing them mobile phones. Beneficiaries of mobile phones are not only the senior bureaucrats but personal staff of minister concerned. See paper provided in this respect.
Security staff which as per government guidelines should be engaged through DGR is engaged through a private security agency.
SFAC is engaged in providing venture capital to farmers to help them in food processing business. But its financing job is also doubtful . Lacs of rupees was provided to societies and NGOs which after taking money from it vanished or changed thei entities. Please see the note to accounts .

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