The Government of India and Himachal Government will jointly work to raise additional storage capacity of food-grains up to 42,000 metric tonnes in the state.This was decided at a meeting held between Shri K.V. Thomas, Union Food Minister and Shri G.S. Bali, Food, Civil Supplies & Consumer Affairs Minister of Himachal in New Delhi on Thursday. It was also decided in principle that supply of rice will be raised under Public Distribution System (PDS) in comparison to wheat. Shri Bali revealed that Rs.19.5 crore would be spent on computerization of PDS in the State.