THE MINISTER OF STATE OF THE MINISTRY OF FOOD PROCESSING INDUSTRIES (SHRI N.T. SHANMUGAM)
(a) & (b): There is no Department/Undertaking under the administrative control of this
Ministry. There is one subordinate office, namely, Directorate of Fruit and Vegetables
Preservation with four regional offices and two sub-regional offices under this Ministry.
The number of employees working in this Ministry including Directorate of F&VP, group-
wise; and the details of the number of Other Backward Classes, Scheduled Castes and the
Scheduled Tribe officials out of the total number of officials, separately, group-wise are
given below:-
Group Number of employees (in position)
OBC SC ST
A 48 2 5 1
B 60 3 9 3
C 71 1 13 1
D 34 10 1
Total 213 6 37 6