hyderabad despite the union government allocating huge quantities of rice to the state under the food for work programme the government is facing a peculiar problem with regard to its distributionin addition to the ffw rice the food corporation of india fci is releasing huge quantities of punjab rice which is not consumed in the stateaccording to officials the rice variety which was over two years old has more than 35 per cent of broken grain in it and suffers discolouration besides emanating a bad smell workers are reluctant to accept the grainthe issue was brought to the notice of chief minister n chandrababu naidu by collectors during a videoconference on thursday the collectors told naidu that the workers were protesting issue of punjab rice and creating problems to the administrationmoreover collectors of cuddapah adilabad and krishna complained to naidu that despite repeated requests the fci officials were insisting on lifting of the punjab riceinterestingly officials of the civil supplies department who intervened at this juncture said that the department has permitted the rice as it was anticipating a shortage in a couple of monthsnaidu however retorted immediately saying that the supply of inferior quality of rice would only result in a crisis in the state as the workers were unwillingly accepting the rice in the absence of a matching cash component when the issue of updating data pertaining to the ffw came up for review some collectors complained to naidu that they were not able to retrieve data they fed to the governments websitewe are sending data periodically to the website but we are not able to see it again when we want it some collectors complainedinterfering in the discussion at this juncture planning secretary a k parida said the data was stored workwise on the website aponlinegovin and it could be retrieved by anyone i had verified the data myself just before entering the videoconference room and there is no problem in retrieving it he told the collectorsresponding to paridas claim naidu directed the collectors to recheck the website to ascertain the facts while he ordered the ap technology services apts personnel to bring a computer to the videoconference room to see whether collectors were wrong or parida was right there is a credibility issue here and it should be verified immediately he said