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Updated On: 04 September, 2011 10:24 AM IST | | Ravikiran Deshmukh
After Mid DAY's expose on how the state Women and Child Development department spent most of its budget on the undiscerning purchases of expensive commodities ('Do the starving really need a Rs 12,000 carpet?') while starving kids in the state were robbed of food, another shocking instance of wasteful expenditure in the name of the deprived has come to light, this time in State departments such as Social Justice and Tribal Development
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After Mid DAY's expose on how the state Women and Child Development department spent most of its budget on the undiscerning purchases of expensive commodities ('Do the starving really need a Rs 12,000 carpet?') while starving kids in the state were robbed of food, another shocking instance of wasteful expenditure in the name of the deprived has come to light, this time in State departments such as Social Justice and Tribal Development.
On June 30, the Social Justice department issued an order for printing a 10-page brochure, to publicise its welfare schemes meant for the scheduled castes.
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