Multiple choice

The central vigilance committee headed by Justice (Retd.) D P Wadhwa submitted its report on which of the following to the Supreme Court in 2010?

  1. Public distribution system

  2. National Education Mission

  3. Mid-day meal programme

  4. Indira Awas Yojana
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Explanation

A Supreme Court-appointed committee has described the public distribution system (PDS) in the country as “inefficient and corrupt” plagued by black marketing and diversion involving a “vicious cartel of bureaucrats, fair price shop owners and middlemen”.
The central vigilance committee headed by former Supreme Court judge Justice D P Wadhwa in its report to the apex court on March 16, 2010 said that the Rs 28,000-crore subsidy annually spent by the Centre was being pocketed by vested interests and suggested drastic action to stem the rot.

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