MINISTER OF STATE (INDEPENDENT CHARGE) FOR CONSUMER AFFAIRS, FOOD & PUBLIC
DISTRIBUTION (PROF. K.V. THOMAS)
(a)& (b): Food Corporation of India has informed that no complaint regarding
poor maintenance of stocks, unsafe storage of foodgrains and violation of
Government directives in FCI has been received. However, during periodical
inspection of preservation of stocks lying with State agencies, maintenance
of stocks have been reported to be not upto the mark with the result following
quantity has become upgradable/Nonissuable in Punjab & Haryana Regions which
are not readily dispatch-worthy and require segregation, upgradation and
fumigation etc. by State agencies. The details are as under:
Region Crop Year Upgradable stock of Non-issuable stock State Agencies as of State Agencies on 31.10.12 as on 31.10.12 (Lakh Tons) (Lakh Tons)
Punjab 2008-09 & older 0.17 0.27 2009-10 0.68 0.09 2010-11 0.89 0.01 2011-12 0.33 0.00 Total 2.07 0.37
Haryana 2009-10 0.40 0.05 2010-11 0.16 0.02 2011-12 0.01 0.00 Total 0.57 0.07
Region-wise details of the complaints received and action taken are at Annexure-I.
Steps taken by the Government for safe storage of foodgrains are at Annexure-II.
Region-wise stock position in Cover and plinth (CAP)/Open storage (Katcha & Pucca)
during the last three years and current year is at Annexure-IIIA, 1MB, MIC & HID
respectively. Region-wise details of foodgrains accrued as damaged/ non-issuable
foodgrains with FCI during last three years and current year are at Annexure-IV.
(c) & (d): Government of India has suggested to the State Governments to draw up
their own scheme under the Public Private Partnership (PPP) mode for construction
of godowns on the lines of the Private Entrepreneurs Guarantee (PEG) scheme
formulated by the Government of India to meet their immediate storage requirements
through Private Entrepreneurs and /or Central Warehousing Corporation (CWC) and
State Warehousing Corporations (SWCs) and State Government agencies on a similar
guarantee basis. Under PEG scheme, FCI gives guarantee for the storage charges to
the private investors for ten years. However, such a scheme if drawn up by the
State Governments for construction of godowns required for their own storage
requirements will have no financial commitment by the Government of India. The
State Governments have not furnished any response regarding drawing up a scheme
on the lines of the PEG scheme of the Government of India.
