State food subsidy for tea belt - Days after Centre's Duncan move, Mamata govt announces 45p grains for all garden residents

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All residents of tea gardens will get rice and wheat at the rate of 45 paise a kilo, said state food minister Jyotipriya Mullick, two days after the BJP-led central government decided to acquire seven of 14 ailing tea gardens of the Duncans group. Mullick said the food grains would be given under the central National Food Security Act, although under this scheme, subsidised rice is given at the rate of Rs 2 a kilo and wheat at Rs 3 a kilo to the needy.