FCI raises Uttarakhand wheat allocation, employees donate to PM's Relief Fund

Food Corporation of India (FCI) has decided to increase wheat allocation to Uttarakhand to 50,000 tonnes during this month in view of the floods and landslides there.

Employees of the corporation have also decided to donate a day's salary to the Prime Minister's Relief Fund to mitigate the suffering of the flood affected in Uttarakhand and Himachal Pradesh.

FCI normally inducts 15,000 to 20,000 tonnes of wheat every month to meet the PDS requirement of Uttarakhand from the nearby states like Punjab and Haryana. "However in view of the calamity, FCI has planned 50,000 tonnes of wheat for induction during July in Uttarakhand, which has been devastated by cloudbursts, floods and landslides, leaving a trail of death and destruction," said FCI Chairman and Managing Director C. Viswanath.

FCI has taken adequate measures to beef up its food grains stock in Uttarakhand. "We have been regularly monitoring our stock position of rice and wheat in depots in three FCI districts of the state - Dehradun, Haldwani and Srinagar," Viswanath said.