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Telangana to supply rice directly from mills to retailers to control prices
Telangana will route rice from mills directly to local retailers to help control prices.
Retailers can contact their District Civil Supplies Officer to request stocks from millers, bypassing wholesalers and traders.
The department said shopkeepers’ claims of shortages should not cause panic or price rises, and warned middlemen against spreading shortage rumours.
About ten days earlier, the government capped prices for three groups of fine rice varieties at ₹66, ₹74 and ₹79 per kilogram.
Retailers were told to display these maximum prices, and inspectors found some bags were underweight or marked with higher prices.
The department is preparing to use the PD Act against repeat offenders; the announcement did not give a timeline for that step.
Telangana’s Civil Supplies Department will arrange direct rice supplies from millers to local retailers to help control prices.
Retailers must contact the relevant District Civil Supplies Officer to request stock.
The department said the measure removes wholesalers and traders from the supply route.
Civil Supplies Director G.V. Shyam Prasad Lal urged retailers not to panic or raise prices over claims of shortages.
The department is preparing to invoke the PD Act against habitual offenders after checks found rice-sale violations.
- Who
- Telangana’s Civil Supplies Department and local retailers.
- What
- The department will facilitate direct rice supplies from millers to retailers, bypassing wholesalers and traders.
- When
- Announced on Monday, November 9, 2026.
- Where
- Telangana.
- Why
- To control rice prices. The department also said claims of stock shortages were being used to increase prices.
This story does not have two clearly opposing sides.
The government fixed maximum retail prices for three groups of fine rice varieties.
The Civil Supplies Department announced it would facilitate direct supplies from millers to local retailers.
The department said checks had uncovered sale violations and that it was preparing to invoke the PD Act against habitual offenders.
- BPT and KNM
- Maximum retail price capped at ₹66 per kg
- RNR and Telangana Sona
- Maximum retail price capped at ₹74 per kg
- HMT and JSR
- Maximum retail price capped at ₹79 per kg
- Retailers’ stock requests
- Submit an indent to the relevant District Civil Supplies Officer
- Detected violations
- Underweight bags and higher MRPs affixed over original prices
What people are saying
not to panic or increase prices due to the manufactured pressures