THE MINISTER OF STATE FOR FOOD PROCESSING INDUSTRIES
(DR. CHARAN DAS MAHANT)
(a): The Ministry of Food Processing Industries does
not maintain the data on investment in Food Processing
sector. However, as per the competitiveness report of the
National Manufacturing Competitiveness Council there are 25,
367 registered food processing units in the country whose
total invested capital is Rs. 84,094 crores.
(b) & (c): Ministry of Food Processing Industries (MFPI) has
not conducted any survey in respect of estimated requirement
of food processing facilities in the country and the
availability of such facilities in the country.
(d) & (e): From 2007-08, the receipt of applications, their
appraisal, calculation of grant eligibility as well as
disbursement of funds has been completely decentralized.
Under the new procedure, an entrepreneur/ applicant can file
application with the neighborhood Bank branch/ Financial
Intuition (FI). The Bank/ FIs would then appraise the
application and calculate the eligible grant amount as per
the detailed guideline given to them by the Ministry. The
Banks/ FIs appraise project and its recommendation for the
release of grant is transmitted to the Ministry through e-
portal established for this purpose. After the
recommendation and requisite documents are received from the
Bank/ FIs, the Ministry sanctions the grant and transfer the
funds through the e-portal. The task of maintaining and
compilation of data through e-portal has been assigned to
HDFC Bank
Updated data is received from HDFC Bank from time to
time and the same is put on Ministry’s website in public
domain. The data indicates all relevant fields including
sector, state, name of applicant, amount disbursed, bank and
details of installments etc. thus, making the system
completely transparent. The details are given at Annexure.
