Full fledged FCI office
Source: The Sangai Express
Imphal, June 11 2020:
The FCI regional office located at Old Assembly complex is now a full fledged office.
Food Cooperation of India issued an order to this effect on June 10.Meanwhile Transporters and Drivers Council (TDC) president H Ranjit has conveyed gratitude to Union CAF&PD Minister Ram Vilas Paswan, Chief Minister N Biren, CAF&PD Minister Karam Shyam, Chairman cum Managing Director of FCI headquarters, New Delhi and the Executive Director of FCI North East Zonal Office, Guwahati for making the FCI Imphal regional office a full fledged one.
Speaking to media persons at their MG Avenue office today, H Ranjit remarked that upgrading of the FCI Imphal regional office as a full fledged one is a big achievement for the whole State.
On a trip to Imphal on January 22, 2014, the then Union CAF&PD Minister KV Thomas opened an FCI regional office at the Old Assembly complex.
Subsequently, the State Government made all correspondences with the regional office regarding foodgrains particularly rice which hitherto were done with Guwahati and Dimapur, Ranjit said.
Transport contractors of Manipur faced many difficulties when there was no FCI regional office at Imphal.
At several instances, they were deliberately kept out of tenders when all FCI related works of Manipur were handled by the regional offices located at Shillong and Dimapur, said the TDC president.
Even though an FCI regional office was opened at Imphal in 2014, it was not made a full fledged one for the last six years.
Following repeated appeals of TDC to the Union CAF&PD Minister, the Chief Minister and the CAF&PD Minister, and the State Government's sincere efforts, an order was issued yesterday whereby the FCI Imphal regional office was declared as a full fledged one, Ranjit said.
He said that bus drivers and handymen who transported returnees from different States of India from Jiribam to their respective district headquarters are being quarantined.
Many TDC officials have also been quarantining themselves in a hotel, he added.