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LATEST NEWS UPDATES | Review: Standing Committee asks FCI to work towards reduced wastage & stringent action against delinquent officials -Sai Krishna Muthyanolla

Review: Standing Committee asks FCI to work towards reduced wastage & stringent action against delinquent officials -Sai Krishna Muthyanolla

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published Published on Aug 2, 2022   modified Modified on Aug 14, 2022

-Factly.in

The parliamentary standing committee on Food, Consumer Affairs, and Public Distribution presented a report regarding the Procurement, Storage and Distribution of Food grains by the FCI in August 2021. The government has now presented its action taken report. Here is a review.

Food security is an important element of a nation’s stability and prosperity. The starting point for ensuring food security is the procurement stage, followed by storage, and distribution. In India, the primary task for ensuring the smooth flow of the above process is entrusted with the Food Corporation of India (FCI) established under the Food Corporations Act, 1964. The objectives of the FCI, as mentioned on their website are:

Lately, there have been multiple questions raised about the storage and other costs of the FCI because of the excessive food grain stocks. A whole lot of issues surrounding the procurement, and storage are explained in detail by Factly in the series on FCI here, here, here, and here. 

In light of these, the parliamentary standing committee on Food, Consumer Affairs, and Public Distribution presented a report titled, ‘Procurement, Storage and Distribution of Food grains by Food Corporation of India’ to the concerned Ministry in August 2021. The report was examined by the Government, and it provided the actions taken against the specified recommendations. The latest report titled, ‘Action Taken by the Government on the Recommendations/ Observations contained in the Thirteenth Report of the Committee (Seventeenth Lok Sabha) on the subject ‘Procurement, Storage and Distribution of Food grains by Food Corporation of India’  was recently presented in the parliament. We look at important issues highlighted in this report focussed on specific aspects of the process flow.

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Factly.in, 2 August, 2022, https://factly.in/review-standing-committee-asks-fci-to-work-towards-reduced-wastage-stringent-action-against-delinquent-officials/


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