Mizoram minister says rice flow normal

Mizoram Minister for Food, Civil Supplies and Consumer Affairs John Rotluangliana today said that the flow of foodstuff to Mizoram remained normal despite the disruption caused by widening of railroad at the Lumding-Badarpur sector in Assam continued for more than a month.
Rotluangliana told PTI that due to stoppage of procurement of rice by railways due to the ongoing work, the state government continued to lift more rice from Guwahati by road.
"At present, we are having stock of foodstuff to last for two months and the procurement of rice continued unabated," he said.
He, however, said that the government was making efforts to procure rice from neighbouring Myanmar in order to ensure non-stop flow of rice even if there are road blocks due to natural disaster or bandhs and economic blockade in neighbouring states like Assam.

Lalrindika, the contractor appointed by the state government to procure rice from sources other than the FCI said that he had procured almost 10,000 quintals of rice so far.
Lalrindika has been selling rice at the rate of Rs 25.25 per kilo to the state government and said that he would even procure rice from Myanmar if the need arose.