Naveen Patnaik launches Rs 1 per kg rice scheme
Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik on Saturday launched the Rs 1 per kg rice scheme for the poor in Odisha from the backward and tribal-dominated Malkangiri district.
The Centre's wheat procurement may touch 250 lakh tonnes in the 2009-10 marketing season, if it could procure from Bihar the same quantity of the foodgrain that it had bought a year ago.