The Supreme Court today asserted that it had ordered free distribution of food grains to the poor instead of allowing them to rot in go downs .The court told the government counsel that it was not a suggestion as made out by Agriculture Minister Mr Sharad Pawar but it was an order. Referring to newspaper reports that the Union Minister had claimed there was no such order, a bench of the apex court clarified that it did pass such an order. Mr Pawar had said that the Supreme Court's suggestion for free grain is not possible to implement. The apex court in an order directed the Union government to conduct a fresh survey of the BPL/ABPL/AAY beneficiaries on the basis of the figures available for 2010 and said the authorities cannot rely on a decade-old data to extend the benefits.