Nation needs a single, technologically modern storage management infrastructure: Piyush Goyal
Union Minister Piyush Goyal on Tuesday has reviewed the Storage Plan for Essential Commodities in the country
New Delhi: Union Minister for Ministry of Consumer Affairs, Food
& Public Distribution, Railways & Commerce & Industry,
Piyush Goyal on Tuesday has reviewed the Storage Plan for Essential
Commodities in the country.
The Minister of State for Consumer
Affairs, Food & Public Distribution, Rao Saheb Patil Danve,
Secretary, Department of Consumer Affairs, Secretary Department of Food
& Public Distribution, Secretary, Ministry of Agriculture &
Farmers Welfare, CMD, Food Corporation of India, Managing Director,
NAFED, Senior Officers from NABARD and Ministry of Food Processing
Industry also attended this review meeting.
While reviewing,
Minister Piyush Goyal said that the Nation needs a single,
technologically modern storage management infrastructure. He said that
we must think in terms of Convergence and aggregation of all storage
infrastructure in the country. Goyal said that “whole of the Government
approach" is needed rather stand-alone departmental storage plans. He
said for this land aggregation for storage from States, Government
Undertakings may be explored. Goyal further advised all to have more
synergy between the effective utilisation of Agriculture Infrastructure
Fund and creation of modern storage infrastructure.
He further
added Location specific master plans and schemes and environment should
be created for boosting Public private partnerships, Investment,
initiatives, enterprises. Goyal said master plan for land and storage
should be prepared so that optimisation of space and use may be
achieved.
Goyal said that the modern, cost efficient storage
infrastructure at grass roots level and at block level is great way to
increase farmers income.
In India, warehouses are spread over
different undertakings and authorities at 20,433 locations. They Include
Railway Goodsheds-7400, PMC Principal & sub-marketyard- 7320,
Fci-545, CWC-422, SWC’s 2245, NSC, NAFED, NCCF-73, CONCOR-60+,
cooperatives- 2000+, Warehouses with State Govt. HAFED-100+, Highway
Logistics Park (under process) -35, Inland Waterways Complex-8,
Ports-200+ Airports(cargo)-25, where warehousing infrastructure of
required type & size can be developed, upgraded or modified for safe
storage of essential commodities. He informed that EOI has been called
for development of Cold chain facility for perishable commodities,
including onions through Private Entity.
It may be noted that
CWC/SWCs are having presence at about 2668 locations, in Tier-I to
Tier-V cities. These are most suitable for development of warehouses, in
consumption as well as production area, being in prime area &
outskirt of the cities.
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