Title - Wheat worth Rs.3.5 crore damaged in rain

Over 3,000 quintal of wheat worth over Rs.3.5 crore was damaged due to the rain over the last two days as local officials failed to make proper storage arrangements, Bharatiya Janata Party MP Balkrishna Shukla said here on Sunday.

“The Food Corporation of India [FCI] and Central Warehousing Corporation [CWC] had kept 3,000 quintal of wheat in the open at the premises of the FCI, the CWC and the Vadodara railway station. It was damaged due to rain that lashed the city over the last two days,” Mr. Shukla told journalists.

He said he will raise the issue during the Question Hour in the Lok Sabha on Monday.

The MP and Vadodara District Collector Vinod Rao on Sunday visited the site where the wheat was stored in the open.

Mr. Shukla said the FCI and CWC blamed the contractor for not storing the grain properly.

Mr. Rao said: “This stock of wheat worth Rs.3.5 crore was received from Madhya Pradesh.”