{"id":258508,"date":"2025-03-13T18:43:07","date_gmt":"2025-03-13T18:43:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/2025\/03\/13\/several-union-ministries-owe-rs-250-crore-to-fci\/"},"modified":"2025-03-13T18:43:08","modified_gmt":"2025-03-13T18:43:08","slug":"several-union-ministries-owe-rs-250-crore-to-fci","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/2025\/03\/13\/several-union-ministries-owe-rs-250-crore-to-fci\/","title":{"rendered":"Several union ministries owe Rs 250 crore to FCI"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"text-align:center\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i1.wp.com\/img.etimg.com\/photo\/msid-118990243,imgsize-168878.cms?ssl=1\" class=\"attachment-post-thumbnail size-post-thumbnail wp-post-image\" alt=\"Several union ministries owe Rs 250 crore to FCI\" title=\"Several union ministries owe Rs 250 crore to FCI\" \/><\/div>\n<div data-brcount=\"8\">Our Political Bureau<\/p>\n<p><!--\/dynamic_link.cms?msid=107107653&subsecid=1715249553&pos=toppotime:1-->New Delhi: According to a report by the <a ref=\"dofollow\" data-ga-onclick=\"Inarticle articleshow link click#News#href\" href=\"https:\/\/economictimes.indiatimes.com\/topic\/parliamentary-standing-committee\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Parliamentary Standing Committee<\/a> on Consumer Affairs, the Food Corporation of India (FCI) is awaiting more than Rs 250 crore from several ministries, including External Affairs, for food grains supplied to Afghanistan, Korea, and Egypt. The committee urged immediate action to recover these outstanding dues.<\/p>\n<p>The committee stressed the need for direct engagement with the concerned ministries and the formation of a high-level joint committee to resolve the matter promptly. It expressed concern over the long delay in clearing these arrears, highlighting that the prolonged non-payment is affecting the efficiency of the food distribution system.<\/p>\n<p>The panel has advocated for implementation of the <a ref=\"dofollow\" data-ga-onclick=\"Inarticle articleshow link click#News#href\" href=\"https:\/\/economictimes.indiatimes.com\/topic\/smart-public-distribution-system\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">smart public distribution system<\/a>.<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/economictimes.indiatimes.com\/news\/india\/several-union-ministries-owe-rs-250-crore-to-fci\/articleshow\/118990243.cms\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Our Political Bureau New Delhi: According to a report by the Parliamentary Standing Committee on Consumer Affairs, the Food Corporation of India (FCI) is awaiting more than Rs 250 crore from several ministries, including External Affairs, for food grains supplied to Afghanistan, Korea, and Egypt. The committee urged immediate action to recover these outstanding dues. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":258509,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/img.etimg.com\/photo\/msid-118990243,imgsize-168878.cms","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[602],"tags":[1955,88300,199455,199457,25221,43187,143500,199458,6953,199456],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/258508"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=258508"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/258508\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":258510,"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/258508\/revisions\/258510"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/258509"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=258508"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=258508"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=258508"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}