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The Union Minister for <\/span>Consumer Affairs, <\/span>Food<\/span> and Public Distribution has suggested a five-point reform agenda for the <\/span>Food Corporation of India(FCI)<\/span><\/a> on the occasion of the 58th Foundation Day of the FCI.<\/span><\/p>\n \u2013 <\/b>Change the public perception of FCI<\/strong> from being inefficient & corrupt to dynamic, inclusive & honest.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n \u2013 <\/b>Focus on integrating end-to-end tech solutions<\/strong> right from procurement to delivery to achieve operational efficiency & leakage free distribution \u2014 reduce PDS response time, beneficiary tracking etc.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n \u2013 <\/b>Establish a grievance redressal mechanism<\/strong> to react rapidly to farmer\/Farmer Producer Organisation in distress. Reaching out to farmers through \u201cJan Jagrukta\u201d programmes at the grass-root level to spread awareness.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n \u2013 <\/b>Plan for modern infrastructure & logistics<\/strong>. Upgrade warehouses to international standards. Improve storage capacity for the growing need \u2013 Power backup, CCTV, robust network facility.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n \u2013<\/b> Adopt the best<\/strong>\u00a0Global practises<\/strong> making India a \u2018Food hub<\/span><\/p>\n Source<\/b>: This post is based on the article \u201c<\/b>Consumer Affairs Minister suggests 5-point reform agenda for FCI<\/b>\u201d <\/b>published in Indian Express <\/b>on 14<\/b>th<\/b> January 2022.<\/b><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" What is the News? The Union Minister for Consumer Affairs, Food and Public Distribution has suggested a five-point reform agenda for the Food Corporation of India(FCI) on the occasion of the 58th Foundation Day of the FCI. What is the five-point reform agenda suggested by the Food Minister for FCI? \u2013 Change the public perception… Continue reading Consumer Affairs Minister suggests 5-point reform agenda for FCI<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10317,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1566,7965,9],"tags":[10500],"class_list":["post-162050","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daily-factly-articles","category-miscellaneous-daily-factly-articles","category-public","tag-indian-express","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":{"total":0,"cached_at":"","cached_date":1704932410},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/162050","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10317"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=162050"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/162050\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=162050"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=162050"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=162050"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}What is the five-point reform agenda suggested by the Food Minister for FCI?<\/b><\/h5>\n