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Minister thanks FCI workers for timely delivery of grains amid lockdown

Taking to Twitter, Union Minister for Consumer Affairs, Food and Public Distribution, Ram Vilas Paswan thanked officials and workers of the Food Corporation for ensuring the availability of food grains in the country amid the nationwide lockdown.

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Published : Apr 4, 2020, 3:09 PM IST

New Delhi: Union Minister Ram Vilas Paswan on Saturday thanked officials and workers of the Food Corporation (FCI) for ensuring the availability of food grains in the country amid the nationwide lockdown.

Taking to Twitter, he thanked 80 thousand workers and the district and block level officials of the FCI.

Paswan said that FCI has so far supplied a total of 13.36 lakh tonnes of foodgrains through 477 rail racks. "Thanks to 80,000 laborers, including FCI officers and staff of district and block level, who work hard to ensure timely supply of food grains across the country, due to which grains are reaching 81 crore beneficiaries," he wrote on Twitter.

  • पूरे देश में समय पर खाद्यान्न की आपूर्ति सुनिश्चित करने में दिन-रात तत्पर @FCI_India के डिपो स्तर और क्षेत्रीय स्तर के अधिकारियों और कर्मचारियों सहित 80 हजार मजदूरों को धन्यवाद जिनकी कड़ी मेहनत के बदौलत 81 करोड़ लाभुकों तक अनाज पहुंच रहा है। 1/2 @narendramodi #IndiaFightsCorona

    — Ram Vilas Paswan (@irvpaswan) April 4, 2020 " class="align-text-top noRightClick twitterSection" data=" ">

"Committed to timely delivery of food grains to the beneficiaries, the FCI has supplied a total of 13.36 lakh tonnes of foodgrains since March 24 through 477 rail racks. On April 3, a total of 1.93 lakh tonnes of food grains were loaded through 69 rail racks and sent to different parts of the country," he said.

In his address to the nation on March 24, Prime Minister Narendra Modi had announced a 21-day lockdown in the country to contain the spread of novel coronavirus.

ANI report.

Also read: COVID-19: 70 train coaches to serve as isolation wards in Gujarat

New Delhi: Union Minister Ram Vilas Paswan on Saturday thanked officials and workers of the Food Corporation (FCI) for ensuring the availability of food grains in the country amid the nationwide lockdown.

Taking to Twitter, he thanked 80 thousand workers and the district and block level officials of the FCI.

Paswan said that FCI has so far supplied a total of 13.36 lakh tonnes of foodgrains through 477 rail racks. "Thanks to 80,000 laborers, including FCI officers and staff of district and block level, who work hard to ensure timely supply of food grains across the country, due to which grains are reaching 81 crore beneficiaries," he wrote on Twitter.

  • पूरे देश में समय पर खाद्यान्न की आपूर्ति सुनिश्चित करने में दिन-रात तत्पर @FCI_India के डिपो स्तर और क्षेत्रीय स्तर के अधिकारियों और कर्मचारियों सहित 80 हजार मजदूरों को धन्यवाद जिनकी कड़ी मेहनत के बदौलत 81 करोड़ लाभुकों तक अनाज पहुंच रहा है। 1/2 @narendramodi #IndiaFightsCorona

    — Ram Vilas Paswan (@irvpaswan) April 4, 2020 " class="align-text-top noRightClick twitterSection" data=" ">

"Committed to timely delivery of food grains to the beneficiaries, the FCI has supplied a total of 13.36 lakh tonnes of foodgrains since March 24 through 477 rail racks. On April 3, a total of 1.93 lakh tonnes of food grains were loaded through 69 rail racks and sent to different parts of the country," he said.

In his address to the nation on March 24, Prime Minister Narendra Modi had announced a 21-day lockdown in the country to contain the spread of novel coronavirus.

ANI report.

Also read: COVID-19: 70 train coaches to serve as isolation wards in Gujarat

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