Mizoram Food, Civil Supplies and Consumer Affairs Minister John Rotluangliana today said that families in Mizoram were receiving more rice after implementation of the National Food Security Scheme than they used to get earlier.
While adults had been entitled to eight kg of rice and minors four kg before implementation of the National Food Security Scheme, now adults and minors were getting the same amount of rice - eight kg, Rotluangliana said.
Replying to a query from Dr K Beichhua of the Mizo National Front (MNF), the minister said that while each family under Antyodaya Anna Yojana (AAY) were given 35 kg of rice at Rs three per kg, each member of the Priority Household family was given five kg of rice at the rate of Rs three a kg.
He said that the PHH family members could avail additional three kg at the rate of Rs 15 per kg while people not covered by the National Food Security Scheme were given eight kg of rice at the rate of Rs 15 a kg.
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