Bhubaneswar, Feb. 15 -- At a time when the Centre and the Odisha government are at loggerheads over the free distribution of rice, a huge quantity of the food grain was found buried under soil and in a safety tank behind Gogua Gram Panchayat office under Bonai block in Sundargarh district on Wednesday.

The incident came to the fore when some villagers found some rice scattered in the area. Then they discovered huge amount of wasted rice full of insects buried in a safety tank and under the soil in the nearby area.

However, it is yet to be ascertained when the rice was buried at the place.

Tension erupted among the villagers following the incident. Some of the villagers put a question mark on the intention behind burying such a huge qua...