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Team for Orissa

By Our Special Correspondent

New Delhi Aug. 31. The Union Minister for Food and Consumer Affairs, Sharad Yadav, has sent a team of senior officials to Orissa to make a spot study of the reported "starvation deaths" in Keonjhar and Raigada districts. The team will submit its report in three days.

The Commercial Officer in Central Warehousing Corporation, B.B. Patnaik, will visit Raigada and a Deputy Director in the Ministry of Food, K.M. Vaghela, will go to Keonjhar. Senior officers from the FCI will accompany them.

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