Parliament Question: Foodgrains Damaged/Destroyed in Godowns of FCI

GOVERNMENT OF INDIA MINISTRY OF CONSUMER AFFAIRS, FOOD & PUBLIC DISTRIBUTION DEPARTMENT OF FOOD AND PUBLIC DISTRIBUTION LOK SABHA UNSTARRED QUESTION NO. 1804 TO BE ANSWERED ON 29TH JULY, 2026 FOODGRAINS DAMAGED/DESTROYED IN GODOWNS OF FCI 1804 ADV. CHANDRA SHEKHAR: SHRI HANUMAN BENIWAL: Will the Minister of CONSUMER AFFAIRS, FOOD AND PUBLIC DISTRIBUTION be pleased to state: (a) whether a large quantity of wheat and rice has been damaged or destroyed in the godowns of Food Corporation of India (FCI) due to poor, dilapidated or inadequate storage arrangements, rain, fire, pest infestation and other reasons during the last five years; (b) if so, the details of the quantity of food grains destroyed along with the estimated economic loss occurred because of this, year and State-wise; (c) the number of such cases wherein investigation has been done during the said period; (d) the number of officers and employees found guilty of negligence or held responsible in the investigation and the details of the departmental, administrative or punitive action taken against them (e) whether the Government is implementing any time-bound action plan at national level to increase scientific storage capacity for safe storage of foodgrains, to set up modern steel silas in place of conventional godowns and to prevent the wastage of foodgrains; and (f) if so, the information in this regard along with the time-frame fixed for implementation of the said plan, State-wise? ANSWER MINISTER OF STATE FOR MINISTRY OF CONSUMER AFFAIRS, FOOD & PUBLIC DISTRIBUTION (SHRIM ATI NIMUBEN JAYANTIBHAI BAMBHANIYA) (a) & (b): No central pool foodgrains stocks (rice & wheat) have been damaged due to poor, dilapidated or inadequate storage arrangements in the godowns of Food Corporation of India (Fl:1).The PCI procures, stores and handles huge quantities of foodgrains over long periods for distribution under welfare schemes of Government and for maintaining the buffer and strategic reserve to ensure the food security. Only very negligible quantity of foodgrains accrue as non- issuable/damage mainly due to natural calamities like Cyclone/Flash Flood/Rain etc. The state - wise and year-wise details on the damaged foodgrains along with economic loss reported during last five years is enclosed at Annexure-A. (c) & (d): Every case of damaged foodgrains is investigated by the three tier categorization committee i.e. Divisional level, Regional level, Zonal level. 18 employees have been held responsible in the investigations. The disciplinary action have been taken against those found responsible. (e) & (f): in order to upgrade and modernize the storage infrastructure, the construction of silos across the country has been approved under the Public Private Partnership (PPP) mode. Silos at 76 locations with storage capacity of 39.00 LMT have been completed. Moreover, the construction of silos at 59 locations with storage capacity of 25.625 LMT is currently underway. Further, under Hub & Spoke Phase-II, tender for construction for 25.125 LMT silos at 54 locations under Design, Build, Finance, Own and Operate (DBFOO) mode in 17 bundles/Projects have been awarded. Concession agreement has been signed for 21.25 LMT (48 locations) in 15 bundles/Projects. #####ANNEXUR IC-A ANNEXURE REFERRED TO IN REPLY TO PART (b) OF UNSTARRED QUESTION NO. 1804 DUE FOR ANSWER ON 29.07.2026 IN LOK SABHA The state -wise and year-wise details on the foodgrains stocks accrued as non-issuable/damaged in FCI goclowns along with economic loss reported during last five years are as under: (Figs. in MTs) Region 2021-22 2022-23 2023-24 2024-25 2025-26 Bihar 41 22 0 0.56 0 Jharkhand 10 20 24 0 40 Odisha 3 0 9 0.02 0 Ilist B;iii- 179 0 0 0.14 9 Assam 7 0 0 0 0 NEF 15 59 0 0 0 Arunachal Pradesh 0 0 0 0 10.17 Manipur 0 0 0 0 0.58 Delhi 62 1 3 0 3 1.72 Haryana O 0 25 1 1 0 0 Himachal Pradesh 0 0 0 0 0.006 J & K 26 1 248 0 0.09 0.82 Punjab 100 264 7746 91 3 6 Rajasthan 6 3 136 6 1 2089 Uttar Pradesh 78 47 2 2254 21 Uttarakhand 592 0 0 0 0 Tn(l;raFMa iF 28 0 0 2 0 Telangana 0 0 2 485 0 Kerala 92 20 0 19 0 Karnam 1 0 0 0 0 Tamil Nadu 0 0 7 300 1 0 Gujarat 21 87 2 3 1 3 0.84 1 140 1 713 1 18 1 1986 1 Maharashtra 140 713 18 3355 [–TT o 2 l– Madhya Pradesh 0 2 2 F=r–I Value in Crore (in Rs) 2-5 14.5 #####