Telangana Chief Minister A. Revanth Reddy has urged the Indian central government to release ₹1,468.94 crore (approximately $175 million) in outstanding payments owed to the state for rice procurement. During a meeting in New Delhi, Revanth Reddy and Civil Supplies Minister N. Uttam Kumar Reddy also pressed Union Minister Pralhad Joshi to procure 30 lakh metric tonnes of boiled rice from Telangana (a southern Indian state formed in 2014) during the current Rabi, or winter-spring, harvest season. The twin demands highlight ongoing tensions between India's state governments and the central government over the financing and logistics of the country's public food distribution system.