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Fertile grouse

While the UPA government boasts of the Right to Information Act as among its major achievements, its own bureaucracy is clearly not impressed. Take the case of fertiliser secretary J.S Sarma who has warned the fertiliser industry and fertiliser associations against speaking to the media The secretary has apparently even gone to the extent of saying that he will stop all payment of subsidies to the industry if anyone spoke of fertiliser shortages. He has been claiming that there are adequate supplies of fertilisers in the country but industry sources dismiss his figures.

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