Hyderabad, March 4 -- Telangana chief minister A Revanth Reddy urged Union minister for food and public distribution Pralhad Joshi to immediately release long pending dues of Rs 1,468.94 crore meant for the supply of custom milled rice (CMR) by the civil supplies department to the Food Corporation of India (FCI) for the 2014-15 Kharif marketing season.

He, along with civil supplies minister N Uttam Kumar Reddy, met the Union minister at the latter's residence in Delhi on Tuesday, March 4.

The duo brought to the attention of the Union minister that the pending dues were related to the collection of an additional levy that was borne by the state government. They requested the Centre to release the dues pending for the past 10 years immedi...