Khit / Yoon (NSS) – Aug 15 

The State Administration Council (SAC) announced that a total of 500,000 rice bags will be delivered second time to the disaster areas with the assistance of the National Disaster Management Committee. 

A total of 200,000 rice bags from the reserved rice were allocated first time by the assistance of the committee to the disaster areas in May. 

Now, supervisory committee for purchasing reserved rice and the Myanmar Rice Federation arrange the plan to allocate 500,000 rice bags for the disaster areas.  

The bags of rice will be delivered after quality and weight of the reserved rice are tested the quality control tests as per the instructions made by the National Disaster Management Committee.

Rakhine, Magway, Sagaing and Chin were hit by the Cyclone Mocha in May.