''Last year, we (Meghalaya) were allotted upto 15, 618 metric tons of APL rice for a period of six months. But this year the allotment was only 4,248 metric tons for the whole six months from January to June,'' State Food and Civil Supplies Minister Augustine D Marak said today.
He said the state earlier was receiving allotment at 2,603 metric tons per month, but this year it had been reduced to the 708 metric tons per month.
''Since July last year, the distribution of APL rice at 35 kg per head for six month was restored but it suddenly came down due to shortfall in the allotment pattern,'' the minister said.
Mr Marak, however, said he would raise the issue of shortfall in allotment of rice to Meghalaya during the meeting of Food and Civil Supplies ministers from the Eastern States scheduled to be held on February 14 at Kolkata.
He said other agendas that would be raised include the demand for restoration of 35 Kg per head of APL rice for six months, extension of consignment which was lapsed from July last year and revamping of FCI depots in the state.