The problem of hunger, though more or less eradicated, could re-emerge in parts of the country unless the food economy is overhauled completely, K C Pant, Deputy Chairman, Planning Commission, said.
He said the progress in food production had resulted in a gradual dilution of the focus on agriculture.
Besides a steady decline in public investment in agriculture, institutional structures developed in the Fifties and Sixties for food security and relief have also been allowed to erode substantially, Pant said.
A sense of complacency and declining standards of governance were responsible for the deteriorating situation, he added.
Pant was speaking on
