New Delhi, May 14 (PTI) The Supreme Court today directed the government to allocate additional five million tonnes of food grains to the 150 poorest districts of the country under supervision of a committee appointed by it.

A bench of justices Dalveer Bhandari and Deepak Verma asked the government to distribute the additional foodgrains during the summer to the poor and vulnerable sections of the society under the guidance of Justice D P Wadhwa Committee.

The bench said the committee would identify the vulnerable sections in consultation with the Centre and would recommend allocation of foodgrains to the targeted beneficiaries.

The court also directed the chief secretaries of all states receiving the additional foodgrains to first exhaust their unutilised stock of foodgrains allocated to them and then distribute the additional one.

Earlier on May 10, the bench had expressed concern over the high malnourishment deaths in the country.