SC voices concern over food price rise

New Delhi, Aug 11 (PTI) The Supreme Court on Tuesday
voiced concern over spiralling food prices due to failure of
monsoon describing the situation faced by the common man as
"terrible" and wanted the government to contain the problem.

"A terrible situation has arisen due to the failure of
monsoon in the country. The prices of common man's food like
dal are going up. The work should be done in the spirit of
patriotic duty," a Bench comprising Justice Markandeya
Katju and A K Ganguly observed.

The court asked the Centre and the state governments to
extend all possible financial, administrative and technical
help to an expert government committee to recommend measures
to overcome water crisis in the country.

The Bench was hearing a Public Interest Litigation (PIL)
relating to the water crisis in the country.

It also perused the report submitted by a Committee
headed by Science and Technology Secretary T Ramasamy.

The Centre had told the court on Monday that it was
exploring utilisation of sea water as one of the alternative
means for meeting acute water crisis that has gripped the
country in recent years.

To overcome these problems and chalk out a long-term
solution, a strategy christened 'WAR for Water" (winning,
augmentation and renovation for water) has been formulated
with a 23-member technical experts committee headed by
Ramasami as chairperson, the Centre said in an affidavit filed
through the Department of Science and Technology.

Under "WAR", problems associated with water like
availability, quality, indiscriminate use, renovation for
recycles, augmentation of quality water from available and
accessible sources would be taken up, it said. PTI RKS
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