Question : PROCUREMENT OF FOODGRAINS

(a) the details of foodgrains procured in Chha- ttisgarh by the Food Corporation of India and other Union and State agencies during each of the last three years;

(b) whether the Central Warehousing Corporation (CWC)/Chhattisgarh State Warehousing Corporation are facing shortage of adequate storage capacity for storing foodgrains;

(c) if so, whether the Central Warehousing Corpo- ration has not built any godowns in the rural areas of the State; and

(d) if so, the details thereof and the reasons therefor along with the number of additional godowns proposed to be built during the next couple of years?

MINISTER OF CONSUMER AFFAIRS, FOOD & PUBLIC DISTRIBUTION (SHRI RAMVILAS PASWAN)

(a): The details of foodgrains procured in Chha- ttisgarh for Central Pool by Food Corporation of India (FCI) and other Government Agencies during last three years and current year are as under :

 
	(Fig. in Lakh MT)	Rice#	Coarse grain KMS	Quantity	Quantity	Procured	Procured 
 2011-12	41.15	0.0045 2012-13	48.04	0 2013-14	42.90	0.03 2014-15##	33.54	0 
 ## KMS 2014-15 are under progress. Figures reported as on 22.04.2015. 
 # Rice includes paddy in terms of rice. 
 
 (b): No, Madam. 
 
 (c): Central Warehousing Corporation (CWC) has not built any godown in the rural areas of Chhattisgarh State. 
 
 (d): A three tier warehousing system had been envi- saged in the country under which the Central Ware- housing Corporation is required to develop ware- housing infrastructure for scientific storage of agricultural produce and other commodities at cen- tres of national importance, whereas the State Ware- housing Corporation had been assigned with the res- ponsibility for development of similar warehousing infrastructure at centres of State level importance. The warehousing infrastructure for similar purposes in rural areas is primarily being developed by the Cooperative Sector, for which financial assistance is also granted by National Bank for Agriculture and Rural Development (NABARD) & National Coopera- tive Development Corporation (NCDC). 
 
 In so far as CWC is concerned, it has initiated steps to construct a capacity of 10000 MT godown at Village, Soram, Dhamtari (Chattisgarh) during the year 2015-16.