Days after senior Shiromani Akali Dal (SAD) leader and Bathinda MP Harsimrat Kaur Badal raised the issue of alleged “substandard panjiri” given to lactating mothers, pregnant women, and children in Punjab, the Centre has written to the state government, asking why the procurement of food items under the Integrated Child Development Service (ICDS) programme was handed over to a private company after taking it from state’s cooperative, Verka. The issue has hogged headlines in the state recently with Anganwadi workers alleging “rampant corruption” in the decision to take away the…