The Union Minister of State for Consumer Affairs, Food and Public Distribution, Shri Ashwini Kumar Choubey in a written reply to a question in Rajya Sabha today informed that that augmentation of capacity is a continuous process.  Food Corporation of India (FCI) continuously assesses and monitors the storage capacity and based on the storage gap assessment, storage capacities are created/hired. FCI augments its storage capacity through following schemes:-

1. Private Entrepreneurs Guarantee (PEG) Scheme
2. Central Sector Scheme (CSS)
3. Construction of Silo's under Public Private Partnership (PPP) mode
4. Hiring of godown from Central Warehousing Corporation (CWC)/ State Warehousing Corporations (SWCs)/State Agencies
5. Hiring of godown through Private Warehousing Scheme (PWS).

As on 01.01.2022, FCI is operating 2199 of warehouses (Owned/Hired) for  storage  of  foodgrains  throughout the country. The State-wise detail of number of storage unit available with FCI (Owned and Hired) as on 01.01.2022 is enclosed at Annexure-I.

Annexure-I

State-wise number of storage unit available with FCI (Owned and Hired) as on 01.01.2022.

 

S. N	Region	Total number of warehouse
1	Bihar	80
2	Jharkhand	48
3	Odisha	46
4	West Bengal	30
5	Sikkim	2
6	Arunachal Pradesh	15
7	Assam	40
8	Manipur	9
9	Nagaland	6
10	Tripura	7
11	Mizoram	6
12	Meghalaya	6
13	Delhi	6
14	Haryana	297
15	Himachal Pradesh	18
16	Jammu & Kashmir	26
17	Laddakh	6
18	Punjab	611
19	Chandigarh	1
20	Rajashthan	173
21	Uttar Pradesh	248
22	Uttaranchal	20
23	Andhra Pradesh	40
24	Andman & Nicobar	1
25	Karnataka	62

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26	Lakshadweep	1
27	Kerala	25
28	Tamilnadu	68
29	Pudducherry	3
30	Telangana	72
31	Chattisgarh	63
32	Gujarat	36
33	Dadra Nagar Haveli &DD	0
34	Madhya Pradesh	36
35	Goa	2
36	Maharashtra	89
Total		2199

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