In response to the news report published under the headline, ‘Over 1000 MT of rice wasted, dumped as garbage’ on May 6 edition of this daily, Directorate of Consumer Affairs, Food and Public Distribution, Government of Manipur has asserted that the damaged rice was never procured from FCI for distribution to the poor and needy, but it was the total quantity accumulated as unusable sweeping stock and balance in the State godown for the last 17 years Source Hueiyen News Service
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