Ministry of Consumer Affairs, Food & Public Distribution
FCI is operating 2199 of warehouses (Owned/Hired) for storage of food grains across the country
Posted On:
11 FEB 2022 4:48PM by PIB Delhi
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:-
- Private Entrepreneurs Guarantee (PEG) Scheme
- Central Sector Scheme (CSS)
- Construction of Silo's under Public Private Partnership (PPP) mode
- Hiring of godown from Central Warehousing Corporation (CWC)/ State Warehousing Corporations (SWCs)/State Agencies
- 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
|
-2-
|
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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