Press release | Food Corporation of India (FCI), Delhi Region has organised an awareness programme at its office situated at Mayapuri under the aegis of Smt. Shraddha Sharma, General Manager (R) and Shri Sanjay Sharma, Deputy General Manager (R). Wherein, they interacted with students of Mahatma Jyotiba Phule Cantonment board senior secondary school, Cantt, Delhi. In the programme Mrs Sharma has explained the students about FCI and its working. She also told about how FCI is serving the country by providing food security to the nation and executing various government schemes (i.e. NFSA, PMGKAY, PM-POSHAN, ICDS, OMSS(D) etc.) in public interest. To strengthen the provisions of NFSA in terms of accessibility,affordability and availability of entitled food grains for the poor and to ensure effective and uniform implementation of NFSA Act 2013, the central Govt has decided to provide free of cost food grains ( Rice,wheat and coarse grain) under PMGKAY to NFSA Beneficiaries with effect from 01.01.2023 . She also explained how introduction of Fortified Rice (FR) has helped in increasing the nutritional quotient of the country as FR is having micronutrients like iron, folic acid, vitamin B12 etc. and also helps in fighting the hidden hunger of the nation.

Further, she said role of FCI has become more important as we are celebrating 2023 as International Year of Millets. Government of India had proposed to United Nations for declaring 2023 as International Year of Millets (IYOM). The proposal of India was supported by 72 countries and United Nation’s General Assembly (UNGA) declared 2023 as International Year of Millets.Most of the millets are native of India and are popularly known as Nutri-cereals :as they provide most of the nutrients required for normal functioning of human body.  Millets are gluten-free, highly nutritious and rich in dietary fiber making them easy for the body to absorb. Rich in micro-nutrients (Calcium, Iron, Phosphorus). All millets show high antioxidant activity and some of the millets are associated with the prevention of diabetes.She also emphasised about the usefulness of OMSS (D) scheme currently going on in Delhi region for price stabilisation.

In continuation to that Mr Sharma explained the students about the different operations of FCI such as procurement of food grains from farmers at MSP, storage of the food grains, movement of food grains and its distribution. He also spoke about introduction and implementation of technologies such as DOS, HRMS, FAP, E-office etc. in daily operations of FCI. Students also interacted with the dignitaries and enjoyed the session. After that they visited the FSD Mayapuri and seen the various operations of the FCI. Other officers ShGuruprasadPasupuleti, DM (Mayapuri), SmtKamnaGyan, DM (Shaktinagar), Ms P. K. Negi, AGM(Sales) were also present and contributed in the programme.