Tripura to get foodgrain via Bangladesh
Landlocked Tripura is set to get its foodgrain supply from mainland India through sea, land and river routes via Bangladesh.
Such a move was necessitated with the monsoon rain lashing the state will be likely a six-month ‘mega block’ of the only rail link between Guwahati and Agartala from October.
The Food Corporation of India (FCI) will send 10,000 tonne of foodgrain — rice and wheat — as a pilot from Andhra Pradesh to Tripura via Bangladesh. The transportation is likely to take two weeks and if the “experiment works well”, then the process will continue for eight months.
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An official with Japan’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs clar...
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It gave no details of the timing or sum involved.
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