Poor are given short shrift Posted on November 10, 1996 by Uttam Gupta poor-are-given-short-shrift Tags: FCI, 'state level taxes on agri-inputs & foodgrains', 'Expert Group on number of poor in India', 'Union Ministry of Food & Civil Supplies', 'State Food Ministers Conference', 'calorie intake', 'cooperatives', Restructured PDS', CACP, Prime Minister