Lok Sabha Question No. 627 (UNSTARRED), answered on 2025-12-03
Subject: Stock of FCI
Ministry: CONSUMER AFFAIRS, FOOD AND PUBLIC DISTRIBUTION
Asked by: Smt. Delkar Kalaben Mohanbhai

## GOVERNMENT OF INDIA

## MINISTRY OF CONSUMER AFFAIRS, FOOD & PUBLIC DISTRIBUTION DEPARTMENT OF FOOD AND PUBLIC DISTRIBUTION

## LOK SABHA

## UNSTARRED QUESTION NO. 627 TO BE ANSWERED ON 3RD DECEMBER, 2025

## STOCK OF FCI

'r627.  SMT. DELKAR KALABEN  MOHANBHAI:

Will  the Minister of CONSUMER AFFAIRS, FOOD AND PUBLIC DISTRIBUTION be pleased to state:

- (a) whether the  Government has assessed the  loss of  foodgrains in  the  stock of  Food Corporation of India (FCI)  during the last five  years;
- (b) if  so, the details thereof  including monetary value of  the loss State, year, item and FCI godown-wise, particularly  for Dadra and Nagar Haveli;  and
- (c) the details of loss offoodgrains  due to inadequate FCI warehouse  and the steps taken by the Government to prevent such loss of foodgrains in future?

## ANSWER

## MINISTER OF STATE FOR MINISTRY  OF CONSUMER AFFAIRS, FOOD & PUBLIC DISTRIBUTION

(SHRIMATI NIMUBEN JAYANTIBHAI BAMBHANIYA)

(a) and (b): Yes. The Government has assessed the damage  to foodgrains in the stock of  the Food Corporation of India (FCI). The year-wise and State-wise details of the damaged  foodgrains over the last five  years are as under:

F in MTs

| Region        | m2q2 2   | no   | 2024-25   |
|---------------|----------|------|-----------|
| Bihar         |          |      | 0.56      |
| Jharkhand     |          |      | 0         |
| Odisha        |          |      | 0.02      |
| West Bengal   |          |      | 0.14      |
| Assam         |          |      | 0         |
| NEF           |          |      | 0         |
| Delh          |          |      | 2.83      |
| Hal),ana      |          |      | 0         |
| J &K          |          |      | 0.09      |
| Punjab        |          |      |           |
| Rajasthan     |          |      | 1.02      |
| Uttar Pradesh |          |      | 2254.32   |
| Uttarakhand   |          |      | 0         |

| Andhra Pradesh   |         |
|------------------|---------|
| Telangana        | 484.74  |
| Kerala           |         |
| Karnataka        | 0       |
| Tamil Nadu       | 3001.39 |
| Gujarat          | 13.27   |
| Maharashtra      | 1985.68 |
| Madhya Pradesh   | 1.83    |
| Chhattisgarh     | 0       |

(Figs. are rounded off)

The item-wise details including the monetary value of damaged foodgrains over the last five years are as under:

|           | ommodity   | ,ccrued uantity of amaged foodgrains n Lakh 'onnes   | IOfftake luantlty   | %of IDamaged :!;ille IaJF: ke luantrt)   | alue in :rore (in Rs.)   |
|-----------|------------|------------------------------------------------------|---------------------|------------------------------------------|--------------------------|
| 020-2 1   | Wheat      | ,01                                                  | ;23.92              | ,002                                     | no                       |
| 020-2 1   | mc         | no                                                   | b 64.64             | ,004                                     | 13                       |
| ,02 1 -22 | Wheat      | .006                                                 | [45.948             | 0.001                                    | ,73                      |
| ,02 1 -22 | Rice       | .011                                                 | 120.133             | 0.003                                    | 1.78                     |
| ,022-23   | ml         | lm                                                   | 160.334             | mo                                       | no                       |
| ,022-23   | Rice       | .012                                                 | 15.492              | no                                       | ,06                      |
| ,023 -24  | Wheat      | .0564                                                | :46.784             | .023                                     | .688                     |
| ,023 -24  | mc         | .0470                                                | :23.935             | mo                                       | .796                     |
| ,024-25   | ml         | .0067                                                | 195.187             | no                                       | no                       |
| ,024-25   | Rice       | .0718                                                | ;9.550              | no                                       | 13.059                   |

There is no FCI godown located in Dadra and Nagar Haveli.

- (c): No central pool  foodgrains got damaged  due to insufficient FCI godowns.

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