The Supreme Court on Monday asked the Centre about action taken against officials responsible for the rotting of huge quantities of foodgrains. Terming the matter as extremely serious, the apex Court asked the Centre to ensure no further wastage and gear up to meet the storage required for the ensuing kharif crops. Additional Solicitor General Mohan Parasaran drew flak for his argument that only 7,000 tonnes of grains had got rotten in Food Corporation of India godowns and that 67,539 tonnes were wasted in the godowns owned by States of Haryana and Punjab. A Bench of Justices Dalveer Bhandari and Deepak Verma told the Additional Solicitor General that 7, 000 tonnes have been damaged and People are dying of hunger as Centre is not providing them grain. They added that this litigation has been going on for the past 10 years and some evaluation should have been done by this time to prevent wastage and ensure proper distribution. The apex court made the observation while dealing with the public interest litigation moved by Peoples Union for Civil Liberties's complaining about large scale corruption the country's public distribution system and rotting of food grains in government godowns. The Bench had earlier ordered the Government to distribute food grains free of cost to the hungry poor, but the Centre had not given any commitment on the issue.