food subsidy for non poor

To even suggest that i will ever oppose subsidies for the extremely poor is preposterous. but to say that fifty per cent of urban and say 60 or more percent of rural people need food subsidy is to pass a great moral judgment on the ability of a large majority of Indians. issue is not whether food should be subsidized, Germany has resources and it still does subsidize food even today. BUt should subsidizing food for people who can afford to buy it take priority over setting up say 6000 navodaya vidyalayas providing high quality education in every block of the country if not every village. will parents not mind remaining a bit hungry if their children could get better education and healthy mid day meals? will setting up a five crore rupees social venture fund in every district not unleash creative and entrepreneurial power of youth of this country? will getting clean drinking water( remember that 60 per cent diseases are water borne) to people not make sense? there is so much more that can be done with 100,000 crore than just letting rats of India have a feast!! or lazy intellectuals hope that social welfare will improve by depressing markets where they do work. i know i failed to convince NAC members and the PMO about mental work instead of just menial under NREGA, would that mean the failure of the argument?? i will persist