Despite government's promises to build more godowns for food grain storage, India has no space to store at least one-third of the 900 lakh metric tonnes of rice and wheat that is expected to be ready by June, 2013. Stark images from 2012 highlighted the acute lack of storage space for food grain procured for the central pool. ...
11:06 AM, Mar 05, 2013
New Delhi: The Food Corporation of India (FCI) Assistant Grade-III Recruitment 2013 process is in full swing after the SSC received tremendous response to its notification that announced the requirement of 6545 Assistant Grade III positions for its five zones. The SSC website is currently down due to exceptional traffic. Candidates are requested to be patient while trying to apply online. This FCI Recruitment Notification has come out through advertisement...
12:56 PM, Sep 11, 2012
New Delhi: The Food Corporation of India (FCI) Assistant Grade-III Recruitment 2013 process is in full swing after the SSC issued a notification for a huge requirement of 6545 Assistant Grade III positions for its five zones. This FCI Recruitment Notification has come out through advertisement FNo1/19/2012 P&PII in major national dailies as well as in Employment News dated August 25, 2012. As per the notification, online submission of form...
10:34 AM, Aug 31, 2012
New Delhi: Food Corporation of India (FCI) Assistant Grade-III Recruitment 2013 notification has been recently issued by SSC for a huge requirement of 6545 Assistant Grade III positions for its five zones. This FCI Recruitment Notification has come out through advertisement FNo1/19/2012 P&PII in major national dailies as well as in Employment News dated August 25, 2012. As per the notification, online submission of form has began from yesterday and...
11:29 AM, Aug 28, 2012
New Delhi: Food Corporation of India (FCI) Assistant Grade-III Recruitment 2013 notification has been recently issued by SSC for a huge requirement of 6545 Assistant Grade III positions for its five zones. This FCI Recruitment Notification has come out through advertisement FNo1/19/2012 P&PII in major national dailies as well as in Employment News dated August 25, 2012. As per the notification, online submission of form has began from yesterday and...
03:40 PM, Aug 27, 2012
Vadodara: Over 3,000 quintals of wheat worth over Rs 3.5 crore was damaged due to rains over the last two days as local officials had failed to make proper storage arrangements, BJP MP Balkrishna Shukla said on Sunday. "Food Corporation of India and Central Warehousing Corporation had kept 3,000 quintals of wheat in the open at the premises of FCI and CWC and Vadodara railway station. It was damaged due...
10:14 PM, Aug 12, 2012
Cuttack: Absolute, ravaging hunger has driven slum dwellers in Odisha to dig up wasted food grain by the Food Corporation of India (FCI) and eat it for their survival. The 1,206 bags of PDS rice belonging to the FCI were supposed to feed empty stomachs. Instead, they lay rotting in Cuttack's railway goods shed for the last nine months, stuck in a red-tape tussle between the railways and the FCI...
06:28 AM, Aug 12, 2012
Kota: Even as the rest of the north of the country bears with an unforgiving summer season and a drought-like situation in many of its parts, in Rajasthan, grain rot continues and it is not a meager amount. Nearly Rs 2 crore worth of wheat still remains in the open. CNN-IBN visited a farmer family in Kota which had just enough grain to last it four weeks. The irony is...
08:45 AM, Jul 05, 2012
Kota: There has been yet another shocking case of damage to food grains due to rains in Rajasthan's Kota district. Food grains to the tune of Rs 2 crore were neglected by Food Corporation of India (FCI) officials. Famers have now logded a case against Food Corporation of India (FCI) officials, alleging that they did not make adequate arrangement, despite assurances by food minister KV Thomas to CNN-IBN. This comes...
11:39 AM, Jun 09, 2012
New Delhi: Railways on Tuesday withdrew four per cent exemption on fertiliser and foodgrain loading rates besides making a 10-15 per cent upward revision of other commodities ahead of Rail Budget. In 2010, Railways has increased freight rate by four per cent on some key commodities such as sugar and some petroleum products to meet rising fuel cost and higher wages. However, foodgrains and fertilisers were exempted from the increase...
07:09 AM, Mar 07, 2012
Thane: While the Food Security Bill is expected to be tabled in the Parliament soon, it has come to light that as much as 7.42 lakh tonnes of foodgrain, worth Rs 330.71 crore, was damaged in the past 10 years in the country due to various reasons. The Food Corporation of India (FCI) has revealed this information in response to an RTI query, filed by a local activist Om Prakash...
02:33 PM, Dec 21, 2011
New Delhi: Parliament's Privilege Committee on Tuesday has recommended a probe by the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) against Industrial Fincancial Corporation of India (IFCI) CEO and Managing Director Atul Kumar Rai while moving a privilege motion against him. Sources say the privilege committee has charged Rai with misleading the committee by representing facts related to his appointment as IFCI CEO and Managing Director . They added that the committee...
04:05 PM, Dec 13, 2011
Chandigarh: The pre-monsoon showers have drenched wheat stocks in several places in Punjab and Haryana and the cycle of rot has begun once again. Punjab and Haryana account for more than 60 per cent of India's total food grain produced every year. But this year, as in previous years, much of this is set to rot. Fresh stocks of wheat were drenched in the recent pre-monsoon showers since they were...
12:17 AM, Jun 25, 2011
Chandigarh: Even as the country is grappling with the problem of big grain drain, another instance of gross wastage of the wheat in Punjab has come to light. Due to lack of storage facilities and lack of clearance of earlier stock, fresh wheat is being piled up by the roadside, getting drenched in pre-monsoon showers and rotting. In Muktsar and Ferozepur, the Punjab government was unable to provide for adequate...
09:24 AM, Jun 24, 2011
New Delhi: CNN-IBN reported how the government turned a blind eye to lakhs of tonnes of foodgrain left to rot in the open in a country where more than half of the population lives below poverty line. Now, unseasonal rain has caused food grain worth Rs 15 crore to rot outside FCI godowns in Delhi and Rajasthan. CNN-IBN expose forced the food minister to order an enquiry in the matter. ...
10:20 PM, May 23, 2011
New Delhi: CNN-IBN reported how the government turned a blind eye to lakhs of tonnes of foodgrain left to rot in the open in a country where more than half of the population lives below poverty line. Now, unseasonal rain has caused food grain worth Rs 15 crore to rot outside FCI godowns in Delhi and Rajasthan. CNN-IBN expose forced the food minister to order an enquiry in the matter....
10:20 PM, May 23, 2011
Itarsi: No fresh procurement of grain is taking place in Madhya Pradesh till the procured wheat is lifted by the Food Corporation of India. Farmers say payments have been stuck for a long time and fresh produce is lying in the open across the state. The state government has blamed the Central government for not arranging adequate storage space for grain and Madhya Pradesh officials have admitted to CNN-IBN that...
01:59 PM, May 12, 2011
New Delhi: A third of India's foodstocks left in the open to rot. Thousands of tonnes already spoilt. It might have forced the Government and particularly the Food Corporation of India (FCI) to aggressively look for more storage and take steps to save the stocks. But the FCI has other ideas up its sleeve- outsourcing India's food security. Well, almost! CNN-IBN's RTI query revealed the rather controversial proposal from the...
07:46 AM, Dec 02, 2010
New Delhi: The Food Corporation of India (FCI) remains malnourished when it comes to storing food grain and CNN-IBN through an Right to Information (RTI) initiative finds out that the flaws in the 11th five year plan are to be blamed. A meager amount of Rs149 crore are allocated to meet FCI's demand for Rs 285 crore and a storage capacity of 3 Lakh Metric Tonne (LMT) is sanctioned against...
10:43 AM, Nov 28, 2010
New Delhi: One third of India's food reserves dumped on raised platforms, some covered with polythene, the rest uncovered and visibly wasting away. For the untrained eye this was plainly an unscientific and irresponsible method of storing foodgrain. But the government kept saying that this was purely an "indigenous" method of storage. They called it,"cover and plinth" or CAP storage. But after official acknowledgment of at least 67,000 metric tonnes...
10:57 AM, Nov 23, 2010
