"Why would they store rice for four years and wait for it to decay?" Same reason why there are hundreds of thousands of trailer homes in the fields of Arkansas bought with tax-payer's money for Katrina victims while there are millions of people made homeless by the hurricane who has no roof over their head. Bureaucracy, in most cases, is the root of evil. I don't think it is Girija's fault. But then, come to think of, it is his fault, after all buck stops with him.