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It is one of the largest corporations in India and probably the largest supply chain management in
Asia (Second in world ) .[citation needed] It operates through 5 Zonal offices and 24 Regional offices. Each
year, the Food Corporation of India purchases roughly 15 to 20 per cent of India's wheat output and
12 to 15 per cent of its rice output. The purchases are made from the farmers at the rates declared
by the Govt. of India. This rate is called as MSP (Minimum Support Price). There is no limit for
procurement in terms of volume, any quantity can be procured by FCI(Food Corporation of India)
provided the stock satisfies FAQ (Fair Average Quality) specifications with respect to FCI.
Organizational structure[edit]
Food Corporation of India operates through it Field Offices/District Offices which are headed by an
Assistant General Manager, designated as Area Manager. Assistant General Manager (QC) is also
posted who is looking after the QC work. Under Area Manager control there are Managers to deal
with each and every section viz., sales, contracts, movement, establishment, quality control,
operational accounts etc., who consolidate the field level operations and through the area managers'
authorization, they transmit the necessary information and periodical statements to regional offices
of their respective regions. Regional offices are headed by a General Manager, who is in most of the
cases from Indian Revenue Service, Indian Administrative Service /All India Services under
deputation. Under his control Deputy General Managers who are FCI's officers coordinate with daily
operations through the Assistant General Managers who were posted in various sections to oversee
the functions of district offices units of their particular section. All these officers appraise the general
manager periodically on various issues pertaining to district offices of that particular region. FCI had
5 zones i.e. North, South, East, West & North-East. All the regional offices are under the control of
zonal offices which are headed by an executive director, who is in most of the cases from Indian
Administrative Service and Indian Revenue Service under deputation. Under his control three or
more than three general managers coordinate with all regional Offices of their particular zone
through subordinate officers like deputy general managers and assistant general managers dealing
with their allotted operational sections in their zone. All the zonal offices are under the control of
Headquarters, New Delhi, which is headed by chairman and managing director, who is an Indian
Administrative Officer of secretary rank on Central Deputation. Headquarters instruct, communicate,
consolidate and refine the voluminous information required for the streamlined execution of day-today operations and coordinates with Ministry of Food, Consumer Affairs and Public Distribution and
Food Secretary and various sister corporations like Central Warehousing Corporation, Indian
Railways in formulating food policy or amending the existing policy to suit the emerging challenges in
managing Food Security scenario of the nation.
Human resources[edit]
Food Corporation of India has the following categories of employees:
Category-I -Designation - Assistant General Manager, Deputy General Manager, General

Manager, Executive Director
Category-II -Designation - Manager
Category-III - Assistant Grade-I, Assistant Grade-II, Assistant Grade-III
Category-IV - Dusting operator,Watch man and Picker etc.
All the category-I and Category-II are recruited through a

competitive exam and recruits will be trained at Institute of Food
Security, Gurgaon for a period of 6 months during which trainees will be
exposed to various operations at field offices and depots and will be
finally inducted as Managers/Assistant General Managers and attached to
one of the field offices or a section in Zonal or Regional Offices. All
the Category-III officials are recruited either through Staff Selection
Commission or through FCI's own competitive exam. Category-III officials
are trained at Zonal Training Institutes and Regional In service training
sessions and one week at field offices after their recruitment.
Operations[edit]
The Food Corporation of India procures Rice and Wheat from farmers through many routes like
Paddy purchase centers/Mill Levy/Custom Milling and stores them in depots.FCI maintains many
types of depots like Food Storage Depots and Buffer Storage Complexes and Private Equity
Godowns and also implemented latest storage methods of silo storage facilities which are located at
hapur in UttarPradesh and Elavur in Tamilnadu.The stocks are transported throughout India and
issued to the State Government nominees at the rates declared by the Government of India for
further distribution under the Public Distribution System (PDS) for the consumption of the ration card
holders. (FCI itself does not directly distribute any stock under PDS, and its operations end at the
exit of the stock from its depots). The difference between the purchase price and sale price, along
with internal costs, are reimbursed by the Union Government in the form of food subsidy. At present
the annual subsidy is around $10 billion. FCI by itself is not a decision-making authority; it does not
decide anything about the MSP, imports or exports. It just implements the decisions made by the
Ministry of Consumer Affairs, Food and Public Distribution and Ministry of Agriculture.
Food Corporation of India recently ventured into procurement of

pulses in various regions from the crop year 2015-16 and pulses are
procured at market rate which is a sharp deviation from its traditional
Minimum Support Price based procurement system.
In the year 2014, Government of India setup a High Level Committee
under the Chairmanship of Hon'ble Member of Parliament and former Minister
of Food and Consumer Affairs and Public Distribution Shri Shanthakumar to
recommend viable solutions regarding restructuring and reorienting the
role of Food Corporation of India and the committee submitted its report
to the government and many of the committee recommendations are under
various stages of implementation.

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Category-I -Designation - Assistant General Manager, Deputy General Manager, General

Category-II -Designation - Manager

Category-III - Assistant Grade-I, Assistant Grade-II, Assistant Grade-III

Category-IV - Dusting operator,Watch man and Picker etc.

All the category-I and Category-II are recruited through a

Food Corporation of India recently ventured into procurement of

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