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Focus on integrating end-to-end tech solutions right from procurement to delivery - Goyal.
Jan 20, 2022

The Food Corporation of India (FCI), celebrated its 58th Foundation Day. On this occasion Union Minister Piyush Goyal, Minister for Consumer Affairs, Food and Public Distribution, Textiles and Commerce and Industry, with his colleagues, MoS Ashwini Kumar Choubey and MoS Sadhvi Niranjan Jyoti addressed all the staffs and officers of FCI spread across the country through video conferencing.

Goyal congratulated the entire FCI family on the occasion and said that FCI was founded on this very auspicious day in 1965 at an auspicious place i.e. the city of Thanjavur in Tamil Nadu.

Underlining the fact that FCI is the main central agency for execution of food policies of Government. Goyal said that FCI has come a long way in realising the dream of India being a self-sufficient nation.

Praising, the way FCI has carried out the world’s largest food supply chain system especially during the pandemic to ensure seamless supply of foodgrains under the ‘Pradhan Mantri Garib Kalyan Anya Yojana’, Minister has said that FCI has not only become an important organisation but also one of the most valuable organisations having stood in testing times.

'Today, FCI procures nearly 1,300 LMT of wheat and paddy annually against nearly 13 LMT procured during 1965. Similarly, distribution across the country has increased from about 18LMT in 1965 to nearly 600 LMT. Even the storage capacity from 6 LMT in 1965 has increased to over 800 LMT now,' Goyal said.

'The statistics reflects how FCI has taken responsibility but also indicates that there’s scope of bettering the transparency. He directed to prepare a layout on how to strengthen better delivery to the people of the nation. 'Our Vision and Mission should be Quality,' he said.

He gave 5 sutras to better FCI’s progress:

1. Change the public perception of FCI from being inefficient & corrupt to dynamic, inclusive & honest.

2. Focus on integrating end-to-end tech solutions right from procurement to delivery to achieve operational efficiency & leakage free, distribution - reduce PDS response time, beneficiary tracking.

3. Establish a grievance redressal mechanism to react rapidly to farmer/Farmer Producer Organisation in distress. Reaching out to farmers through 'Jan Jagrukta' programmes at grass-root level to spread awareness.

4. Plan for modern infrastructure & logistics. Upgrade warehouses to international standards. Improve storage capacity for the growing need- Power backup, CCTV, robust network facility.

5. Global best practices to make India a ‘Food hub’.

He said that it’s important that emphasis should be on improving India’s rating in the Global Hunger index. This could be achieved by adding more nutritional value in people’s diet.

He directed FCI to simplify the processes, free the organisation from discretionary power, make a robust testing mechanism of foodgrains, review sampling techniques & revise as per international standards.

Goyal said, 'We keep talking about the green revolution - I & II. But as Prime Minister said, the goal should be Evergreen revolution - Food security is not enough, focus should be on 'Nutritional Security.'

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