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Stuck in the jam, he was watching the road clearance work when a stone rolling down the hillside hit him. Malana shop alone was issued 163 quintal rice, 115 quintal wheat, 190 quintal wheat flour, 45 quintal sugar, 67 quintal pulses, 4,824 litre cooking oil and 38 quintal salt,” he said. Manali: A massive rockslide near Banala in Mandi district of Himachal Pradesh blocked the Chandigarh-Manali national highway around 6am on Wednesday, holding up vehicular traffic for almost nine hours. More avalanches have been reported in Tandi area of the valley, where a petrol pump and a hot mix plant of a road construction company have been destroyed. “All the villages, including Malana, that receive very high snowfall, have enough ration in fair price shops..