Bengaluru: Maintaining that reports on plastic rice, eggs and sugar are false, experts at the University of Agriculture Sciences (UAS) here have said that the people need not panic over the issue.
Samples of rice which were said to be ‘adulterated’ with a mix of ‘plastic rice’ was sent to the UAS for testing. The samples underwent seven rounds of test, including chemical tests and it was found that they did not contain any such thing as ‘plastic rice’, according to the experts who also said that the nutrition content in these samples of rice was in accordance with the standards set by the National Institute of Nutrition.
Minister terms reports as baseless: Meanwhile, Food and Civil Supplies Minister U.T. Khader speaking to press persons at Mangaluru, said people need not panic about baseless reports on distribution of plastic rice and plastic eggs. ‘We have neither received complaints nor found any instances of plastic rice being sold through fair price shops. All reports are based on rumours. Hence people need not panic about such reports’, he said.
Making a veiled attack on the opposition parties charging that reports of plastic rice was part of an attempt to destroy the popular ‘Anna Bhagya’ scheme of the Congress Government, Khader said that the allegations of plastic rice can be seen as an attempt to bring disrepute to the popular pro-poor scheme.
Maintaining that it was practically impossible to sell plastic rice and earn profit out of it, the Minister said there was no base to the allegations that plastic rice is being sold in the market.
Food items supplied through fair price shops in the State are of good quality, he added.
This report as well as this research is practically useless due to the following points
1. Anybody who is profiting from this scam of mixing plastic rice will try to ensure that the testers won’t get the really adultrated rice. So, the people can’t say the report was false but they can only say the sample they got was not adulterated! It is like police saying crime did not happen because they don’t have proof of who did it!
2. Government agencies should be the last bunch of people who should be talking about profitability! There are government factories/bodies where the all the salary,machinery and expenses are paid by the government still they make colossal losses! These people are assuming that people are importing plastic at Rs 65 per kg and pay all kinds of bribes to use it as raw materials! Wrong! China has a huge amount of waste plastic from their industries and converting them to plastic rice does not even cost anything! Remember , a huge population of Chinese workforce comes. From prison and they dont have to pay them salary! Greed of Indian businessmen & politicians mixed with Chinese cheap goods can’t be underestimated !
3, Our politicians seem to be more interested in declaring that the report is false! More specifically Anna bhagyas promoter seem to give themselves a clean chit that their rice is clean! In reality, even without plastic the rice they provide has a lot of garbage by stones , byproducts of quarries, mud etc! So, they need not pat their back so soon! Our politicians have a knack of using their failures to corner their opponents! Remember , when the entire India was looking for the perpetrators of terrorism against India, Chindambaram and co. Coined the term “Hindu terror” to save their face and corner their opponents!!
4. What kind of scientists are these that they tested one sample and declared the negative result? This goes againt the very definition of the word ‘Scientist’ . If everything was obvious and showed up in the first attempt them life would be far simpler! May be that is the fact either “government scientist’