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Andhra Pradesh
PDS rice being smuggled from Tamil Nadu to Tada
Staff Reporter
NELLORE: Tada, which used to be a transit point for several rice-millers and wholesale merchants to transport paddy illegally from the district to the neighbouring States till the recent past, has now become a hotbed for smuggling Tamil Nadu’s Public Distribution System (PDS) rice.
Some rice-millers and wholesale merchants buy the PDS rice for Rs. 8 a kilo and smuggle it to Tada and Sullurpet. Subsequently, they store the rice in their private makeshift godowns set up along the border.
They then process the rice and also add polish to it before packing it in bags of 25, 50 and 75 kg for sale through retail shops at Rs. 18 a kilo in the district. Though the officials claim that they had reined in smuggling, it is continuing with agents bringing the rice by vehicles and some times by local trains.
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