The gov­ern­ment of In­dia has do­nat­ed 19,000 kilo­grammes of rice and 12,500 litres of ed­i­ble oil to T&T. The sup­plies were for­mal­ly hand­ed over by In­di­an High Com­mis­sion­er Dr Pradeep Ra­jpuro­hit dur­ing a cer­e­mo­ny at the Min­istry of Agri­cul­ture’s head of­fice in Ch­agua­nas on Wednes­day.

Min­is­ter of Agri­cul­ture, Land and Fish­eries Ravi Rati­ram re­ceived the do­na­tion on be­half of the Gov­ern­ment of T&T. The sup­plies will be dis­trib­uted to needy fam­i­lies across the coun­try.

The do­na­tion was fa­cil­i­tat­ed through the Haryana State Co­op­er­a­tive Sup­ply and Mar­ket­ing Fed­er­a­tion Ltd (HAFED), one of In­dia’s largest co­op­er­a­tive or­gan­i­sa­tions.