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Secondly, from the very beginning those who were in charge of administering this policy had no heart in it. A committee had been set up under the chairmanship of a Member of the Planning Commission to study how to implement the scheme of take-over of the wholesale trade in wheat. The committee made 17 suggestions as to how to make the scheme a success. Fifteen out of the 17 suggestions were not implemented at all by the Government. The committee had also indicated that it would be appropriate to give a remunerative price to the farmers at that time. If you remember, it was a period of acute scarcity in the country. The Government had a stock of 9 million tons of food grains with it. And instead of preserving and distributing these 9 million tons through the public distribution system they want on selling this stock in the open market at the rate of one million tons a month. And it was only when the stocks had been depleted that they said they had stopped this whole process.