IMPHAL, Oct 12: A six members team of Food Corporation of India (FCI) headed by the Executive Director (North East Zonal ) office Guwahati, Surender Singh is on a visit to the state capital today to take first hand account of stock positions of essential items under the FCI at the major godowns in the state.
According to an official source, the official team from the FCI headed by the headed by the executive director (North East Zonal ) office Guwahati, Surender Singh accompanied with Romeo K Das AGM (FCI) HQ, H Venkeshorele, AGM (FCI) HQ Store, Ph Surchandra Manager (CE) FCI Dimapur, Dr James, area manager FCI Imphal, soon after their arrival to Imphal this morning conducted the stock positions of the essential items that have been stored at the existing FCI godawn at Sagaiprou and Koirengei this morning itself.
The official source further mentioned that the joint team comprises of the visiting officers along with the director Consumer Affairs and Food Distribution (CAFD) and M Meghachandra OSD (CAFD) will have surprise visit to the FCI godawn at Tamenglong tomorrow and their inspections will continue till next two days by visiting the Bishnupur and Chirachandpur district on October 14, the source added.
It may be mentioned that, the current visit of the official team of FCI will be very much connected with the multiple complaints that been raised from various circles and village level over the failure of regular supplies of the essentials items by the state FCS department, and matter has been taken seriously by the centre as a result the selected official team have been sent to the state to stalk of the stock situations of the essentials items that have been delivered under the FCI to the state which are supposed to be store to the maintained godawns in the state.
Besides, there will be visible responses from the visiting central leaders after they have completed the their inspections to various major godowns, the source added.
