Food Corporation of India was set up on 14 January 1965 having its first District Office at Thanjavur - rice bowl of Tamil Nadu - and headquarters at Chennai under the Food Corporations Act 1964 to implement the following objectives of the National Food Policy :

-Effective price support operations for safeguarding the interests of the farmers

-Distribution of foodgrains throughout the country for Public Distribution System

-Maintaining satisfactory level of operational and buffer stocks of foodgrains to ensure National Food Security

-Regulate market price to provide foodgrains to consumers at a reliable price.

Boards of Directors:

Shri Yogendra Tripathi C&MD
Shri P.K.Jha
Shri U.K.S.Chauhan
Shri Sanjay Lohiya
Shri Harpreet Singh
Shri Ashok Kumar Barnwal
Shri Surinder Singh Khurana
Shri A. Gopalkrishnan,
Shri Raj Kamal Chaudhuri


Food Corporation of India has the following categories of employees:

-Category-I -Designation - Assistant General Manager, Deputy General Manager, General Manager, Executive Director

-Category-II -Designation – Manager

-Category-III - Assistant Grade-I, Assistant Grade-II, Assistant Grade-III

-Category-IV - Dusting operator,Watch man and Picker etc.

FCI coordinates its functions through a country-wide network of offices with Headquarters at New Delhi with five Zonal Offices, twenty-five Regional 2 Offices and 170 District Offices under its control.

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