CBI Raids FCI Godowns in Punjab and Haryana Over ‘Irregularities’
3 years, 10 months ago

CBI Raids FCI Godowns in Punjab and Haryana Over ‘Irregularities’

The Quint  

Amid the ongoing farmers’ agitation, the CBI conducted surprise checks at 20 Food Corporation of India godowns after complaints of irregularities, reports said. Quoting CBI officials, ANI reported, “In the light of receiving a large number of complaints of irregularities in FCI godowns, the Central Bureau of Investigation is conducting joint surprise checks at about 20 locations in Punjab and Haryana, as part of preventive vigilance.” According to NDTV, other than FCI godowns, Punjab Grains Procurement Corporation and Punjab Warehousing godowns were also raided by CBI officials. The CBI is investigating the alleged irregularities that have allegedly led to substandard rice being distributed at a large scale. Earlier on 15 January, as farmers have been demanding a repeal of the Centre’s three farm laws, Food and Consumers Affairs Minister Piyush Goyal had assured that procurement system at minimum support price would continue and FCI is committed to serve farmers.

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After ministry nudge, FCI starts probe into paddy recycling in Odisha
1 month, 2 weeks ago

After ministry nudge, FCI starts probe into paddy recycling in Odisha

New Indian Express  

BHUBANESWAR: The Food Corporation of India has begun a joint physical verification of paddy by associating teams of the state government in major rice mills in western Odisha districts where alleged massive recycling of custom milled rice has been reported to the central government. The ministry acted upon a complaint about massive corruption in physical verification of paddy at millers’ …

Paradigms addressed by direct purchase of rice from FCI for States: Explained
4 months, 3 weeks ago

Paradigms addressed by direct purchase of rice from FCI for States: Explained

The Hindu  

The story so far: Union Minister for Food and Consumer Affairs Pralhad Joshi announced on August 1 that States can directly purchase rice from the Food Corporation of India under the Open Market Sale Scheme without participating in the e-auction beginning August 1. Under the Open Market Sale Scheme, the Ministry of Consumer Affairs, Food and Public Distribution sells excess …

₹1.55 crore scam unearthed, 1.1K rice bags meant for poor families seized
6 months ago

₹1.55 crore scam unearthed, 1.1K rice bags meant for poor families seized

Hindustan Times  

Unearthing a “scam” amounting to ₹1.55 crore, the Punjab Vigilance Bureau raided a warehouse, seized two trucks laden with 1,138 bags of rice and arrested three persons in Maur Mandi, Bathinda, its spokesperson said on Friday. The Punjab Vigilance Bureau says it call officials of a warehouse in Maur Mandi and those of Food Corporation of India for questioning to …

State agencies burdened due to farmers, arhtiyas’ FCI boycott in Moga
7 months, 3 weeks ago

State agencies burdened due to farmers, arhtiyas’ FCI boycott in Moga

Hindustan Times  

As farmers and arhtiyas of Moga boycotted the Food Corporation of India, the central agency witnessed no procurement, putting the entire onus of procuring the grain on state agencies. District food and supply controller Geeta Bashambhu, meanwhile, said state agencies were carrying out procurement amid the boycott, adding, “All the grain delivered at silo was procured by the state agencies. …

A push for FCI modernisation
8 months ago

A push for FCI modernisation

Hindustan Times  

India’s farm output has increased from a mere 50 million tonnes in 1950-51 to over 300 million tonnes in 2022-23, helping to avoid a scary Malthusian world of food production not keeping pace with population growth. The lynchpin of the country’s behemoth food distribution network, which reaches 800 million poor Indians, is the Food Corporation of India. An organisation central …

₹1.37-cr paddy embezzlement: Kapurthala police yet to register FIR against rice mill owner
8 months ago

₹1.37-cr paddy embezzlement: Kapurthala police yet to register FIR against rice mill owner

Hindustan Times  

Kapurthala: Even as Punjab State Civil Supplies Corporation Limited submitted a report pertaining to embezzlement of paddy worth ₹1.37 crore, Kapurthala police are yet to register a first information report against a Kapurthala-based rice miller, who was accused of misappropriating 5,514 quintals of paddy. Even as Punjab State Civil Supplies Corporation Limited submitted a report pertaining to embezzlement of paddy …

FCI allows Punjab to use open plinths for wheat storage for the last time
8 months, 3 weeks ago

FCI allows Punjab to use open plinths for wheat storage for the last time

Hindustan Times  

The food corporation of India has allowed the Punjab food and civil supplies department to store wheat on the open plinths, known as covered area plinths, for the last time during the upcoming rabi procurement season. At present, the state has six lakh tonne storage space in the silos and 167 lakh tonnes in the covered godowns, out of which …

Committee Members Allege Non-cooperation in FCI Visits, Move HC
11 months ago

Committee Members Allege Non-cooperation in FCI Visits, Move HC

Deccan Chronicle  

Hyderabad: Five of the 12 members of the consultative committee of the Food Corporation of India filed in the TS High Court.The CC members said the committee chairman, BRS Rajya Sabha member K. Keshava Rao, had remained a silent spectator. Minutes of the meetings between Dr Keshava Rao, the Civil Supplies Corporation commissioner and the TS FCI officers, which have …

FCI overhaul a landmark, says food minister on its 60th anniversary
11 months, 1 week ago

FCI overhaul a landmark, says food minister on its 60th anniversary

Hindustan Times  

India’s self-sufficiency in food, which ensures no citizen in the world’s most populous country sleeps hungry, is one of the “greatest achievements in human history”, Union minister of food, commerce and consumer affairs Piyush Goyal said on Sunday, lauding the role of the Food Corporation of India on its 60th founding anniversary. Union minister Piyush Goyal on Sunday addressed the …

FCI uses AI-based equipment to detect frauds, says official
11 months, 1 week ago

FCI uses AI-based equipment to detect frauds, says official

Hindustan Times  

​ The Food Corporation of India, which manages the government’s granaries, has spruced up its countrywide operations, introducing artificial intelligence-based equipment to detect fraud in its processes involving millions of farmers, a large network of transporters and silos, an official said. The agency now uses AI-based grain sorters to examine the quality of wheat and rice it buys from farmers, …

CBI searches 39 more locations in FCI scam case
1 year, 11 months ago

CBI searches 39 more locations in FCI scam case

The Hindu  

The Central Bureau of Investigation has conducted searches at 39 more locations in connection with the allegation of massive corruption in the Food Corporation of India in connivance with private rice millers and grain suppliers. The CBI has registered a case against 34 serving FCI officials and three retired members, 17 private persons, including rice mill owners and grain suppliers. …

CBI raids 50 locations in connection with corruption in Food Corporation of India; one official arrested
1 year, 11 months ago

CBI raids 50 locations in connection with corruption in Food Corporation of India; one official arrested

India TV News  

CBI raid: The Central Bureau of Investigation on Wednesday conducted searches at around 50 locations in connection with alleged corruption in the Food Corporation of India, officials informed. In the ongoing crackdown, officials associated with the Food Corporation of India and owners of Grains Mills have been raided. Roles of various top officials are under scrutiny The role of officials …

Paddy procurement scam: 4 rice millers booked; grain market secretary suspended in Karnal
2 years, 2 months ago

Paddy procurement scam: 4 rice millers booked; grain market secretary suspended in Karnal

Hindustan Times  

A day after the chief minister’s flying squad detected a paddy procurement scam of around 75,095 quintals involving three rice millers, the police registered FIRs against four rice millers and the secretary of the Jundla grain market has been suspended and a departmental inquiry has been ordered in the case. A day after the chief minister’s flying squad detected a …

FCI gets nod to procure rice from Telangana
2 years, 5 months ago

FCI gets nod to procure rice from Telangana

Deccan Chronicle  

Hyderabad: In a relief to the Telangana state, the Centre on Wednesday permitted the Food Corporation of India to resume the procurement of rice from the state with immediate effect. Addressing a press conference in New Delhi on Wednesday along with Union tourism minister G. Kishan Reddy, minister for food and public distribution system Piyush Goyal said the Centre was …

BJP intervenes, Sanjay says rice procurement in state will start again
2 years, 5 months ago

BJP intervenes, Sanjay says rice procurement in state will start again

Deccan Chronicle  

HYDERABAD: Telangana state BJP president Bandi Sanjay Kumar on Friday said the Centre responded positively to a request from him to extend by one month purchase of custom-milled rice from the state. It may be recalled that rice millers in Telangana state have been complaining for some time that the Food Corporation of India had stopped rice purchases from the …

Over 50 lakh tonne paddy piled up in mills as FCI stop purchase
2 years, 6 months ago

Over 50 lakh tonne paddy piled up in mills as FCI stop purchase

Deccan Chronicle  

HYDERABAD: Finance minister T. Harish Rao and civil supplies minister Gangula Kamalakar on Friday held a meeting with Chief Secretary Somesh Kumar and other senior officials of civil supplies department at BRKR Bhavan to discuss what to do with mounting rice stocks in rice mills across the state in the wake of Centre stopping rice procurement from the state from …

Centre gives excuses to stop buying rice, says TS minister
2 years, 6 months ago

Centre gives excuses to stop buying rice, says TS minister

Deccan Chronicle  

Hyderabad: The Telangana government and the Centre engaged in a fresh tussle on the issue of rice procurement on Wednesday with the civil supplies minister Gangula Kamalakar charging the BJP-led government at the Centre of finding ‘lame excuses’ to stop procurement from Telangana. He said 'missing rice bags' from rice mills pertained to previous year's rabi crop across the state …

Four warehousing corporation employees booked for siphoning off 23,000 wheat bags in Punjab
2 years, 7 months ago

Four warehousing corporation employees booked for siphoning off 23,000 wheat bags in Punjab

Hindustan Times  

: The police here on Monday booked four employees of district warehousing corporation for allegedly siphoning off more than 23,000 wheat bags worth over ₹ 2 crore following a departmental inquiry into the recent fire incident at its godown that led to the discovery of the scam. Four warehousing corporation employees booked for siphoning off 23,000 wheat bags in Punjab …

Punjab announces closure of grain market after falling short of procurement target
2 years, 7 months ago

Punjab announces closure of grain market after falling short of procurement target

India Today  

The Punjab Mandi Board on Saturday announced the closure of the wheat procurement season after falling short of the procurement targets by nearly 37 lakh metric tonnes. According to the data released by the Punjab Mandi Board, the state recorded a total arrival of 101.8 LMT of wheat grain out of which 95.9 LMT was procured by government agencies and …

Wheat procurement next week; Punjab , Centre in deadlock over land record
3 years, 9 months ago

Wheat procurement next week; Punjab , Centre in deadlock over land record

Hindustan Times  

Punjab’s plans to start wheat procurement next week, with the traditional date being April 1, could run into a hurdle. The Punjab government expects arrival of 132 lakh tonne of wheat for procurement and the operation winds up in 40-45 days, as the entire state machinery gets involved. Last week, in a meeting with the Food Corporation of India, state …

CBI Files Case Against Cadbury, Alleges Firm Availed Fraudulent Tax Benefits in Himachal Pradesh
3 years, 9 months ago

CBI Files Case Against Cadbury, Alleges Firm Availed Fraudulent Tax Benefits in Himachal Pradesh

News 18  

The CBI has booked Cadbury India Private Limited for alleged corruption and misrepresentation of facts to fraudulently avail area-based tax benefits in Baddi, Himachal Pradesh. The FIR is an outcome of a preliminary enquiry registered by the agency, which showed that the company allegedly “paid bribes, misrepresented facts and manipulated records to fraudulently avail area-based exemption benefits in Baddi, Himachal …

An MSP guarantee won’t solve the problems of Indian farmers
4 years, 2 months ago

An MSP guarantee won’t solve the problems of Indian farmers

Live Mint  

Farmer agitations against the three farm bills passed by Parliament continue in different parts of the country. But a related concern, at least among farmers in Punjab, Haryana and Uttar Pradesh, is also the fear that the new law will reduce the scope of minimum support price -led operations. With the withdrawal of subsidies on diesel and complex fertilisers, MSP …

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