Tags: 'tantamount to cash with farmers',
Present method of subsidizing fert',
'mis-use/diversion',
'well-to-do farmers',
'refrain from building castles in air',
'fertilizer producers',
'Dr Kirit Parekh',
'targeted PDS',
'issue of coupons to consumers',
'arrangements on monumental scale',
'Expenditure Reforms Commission (ERC)',
'several printing presses',
CAG,
'lakhs of revenue officials',
'marketable surplus',
'thousands of retail banks & cooperatives',
'subsistence farmers'