Tests conducted at a Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) laboratory at the G North ward have revealed that the rice supplied to Urdu Primary School at Pathanwadi, Malad East, was not plastic/Chinese rice, but a fortified version of the grain. After the school complained to the Kurar police verbally and posted a video regarding the same on social media, the civic body seized the consignment and sent it for tests. However, the school might now have to face some trouble, as the BMC education officer has warned of action against the authorities for defaming them. 

The chool received the rice from BMC’s education department on September 1 and soon after distributed it among 450 kids. The school authorities had said that they received plastic rice and also less quantity of it, after parents complained regarding the same. However, BMC’s laboratory tests checked all aspects of the rice’s quality, including moisture content, foreign matters, damaged grains, weevilled grains, and everything has been found to be normal.