Annexure-1 dated 06.04.2017

Allocation of work of Joint Secretaries

Sl. No. / Name / Designation / Job Description
1. / Shri Prashant Trivedi / Joint Secretary (Policy, FCI
CVO) / Administrative control and supervision of work of Policy I to IV, FC Accounts and FC.I and FC.II & III section. The concerned subject matters mainly relate to Food Policy, Operational matters of FCI including labour issues, funding and accounts & audit related matters of FCI, costing of foodgrains & release of food subsidy to FCI & States, procurement and management of foodgrains including their disposal, procurement of rice through levy, movement of foodgrains. Hill Transport subsidy, supply of packaging material etc., He represents the Department in the Board of Directors of FCI.
Adoption of DCP by States.
Formation of uniform quality specification for procurements of Rice, Wheat and other cereals
Relaxation of quality specification for rice, wheat and other grains as demanded by various State Govt. from time to time.
Vigilance matters.
2. / Shri Subhasish Panda / Joint Secretary (Sugar & Admn.) / Matters relating to sugar, sugar price policy, monitoring of cane price arrears, fixation of margins for States and distribution of sugar through PDS, litigation matters relating to above work. Matters pertaining to Sugar Development Fund Act, 1982, i.e. subsidy on buffer stock of sugar, loans of sugar factories for modernization rehabilitation of plant and machinery, co-generation, ethanol projects and for cane development, grant to institutions for research work connected with sugar industry. Establishment matters relating to NSI, Kanpur and Directorate of Sugar.
Adoption of Online Procurement Management system by States.
Establishment, Administration Coordination,
Parliament and GA of the Department, Welfare, CMT.
3. / Shri Deepak Kumar / Joint Secretary (Public Distribution) / Allocation of foodgrains from Central Pool for TPDS and other Welfare Schemes, its off-take and distribution, Plan Scheme for strengthening of PDS, Implementation, monitoring and evaluation of PDS/TPDS, Buffer Stocking Policy of food grains, Computerization of TPDS operations.
4. / Shri Suresh Kumar Vashishth / Joint Secretary (Storage & PG) / Storage and Warehousing, Director on the Board of Directors of Central Warehousing Corporation & CRWC, Administrative matters of CWC, CRWC & WDRA.
Public Grievances.
5. / Shri T.K. Manoj Kumar / Joint Secretary (Impex & IC) / Policy matters relating Edible Oils (including HVOC) Imports/exports of food grains, storage and Research Division/IGMRI, International Cooperation.
Matters relating to Official Language, Information & Communication Technology, RTI, e-Governance, Citizen Charter.
Matters relating to Committee of Secretaries (CoS) on Price Control and Policy matters relating to price rise, Essential Commodities Act (excluding levy on rice), Crop Weather Watch Group (CWWG) Meeting, Price Stabilization Fund Management (PSFM) Committee and Consultancy for Wheat/ Rice/ coarse grains market scenario.
6. / Shri Nilambuj Sharan / Economic Advisor / Implementation of NFSA.
Plan Coordination.
7. / Smt. Rachna Chopra / Principal Advisor (Cost) / Advising AS&FA on all matters relating to the subjects submitted by FC A/cs and Sugar Division. Advising Joint Secretaries concerned on matters relating to cost analysis concerning functioning of FCI/CWC & Storage, HVOC, Directorate of Sugar & Vegetable Oils, pricing of levy sugar/sugar cane and cost issue of Sugar Division, guiding & finalizing the reports/analysis of the Procurement Incidental Cell (P I Cell) on finalization of incidentals, subsidy claims & sugar margins and any other issue assigned by Secretary (F&PD)
8. / Shri Sharad Ganesh Acharya / Advisor (Cost) / Assisting Principal Advisor (Cost) on all matters relating to the subjects submitted by FC A/Cs and Sugar Division. Advising Joint Secretaries concerned on matters relating to cost analysis concerning functioning of FCI/CWC & Storage, HVOC, Directorate of Sugar & Vegetable Oils, Pricing of levy sugar/sugar cane and cost issue of Sugar Division, guiding & finalizing the reports/analysis of the procurement Incidental Cell ( P I Cell) on finalization of incidentals, subsidy claims & sugar margins.

Allocation of work of AS&FA

Name / Designation / Job Description
Shri Nikhilesh Jha / Additional Secretary & Financial Adviser / AS & FA heads the Integrated Finance Division of the Department of Food & Public Distribution
All the budget proposals of the Department submitted to the Finance Ministry are approved and routed through him
He is the concerned authority responsible for reviewing the progress of expenditure of Department under various budgetary heads.
He advises the department on all matters falling within the ambit of delegated powers including Plan/ Non-plan expenditure proposals.
Advises the Hon’ble Minister and Secretary on formulation of various schemes, projects and other important expenditure proposals of the Department.

Directors/Deputy Secretaries

S. No. / Name / Designation / Job Description
1. / Shri P K Dash / Director
(Storage) / Storage and Warehousing, Coordination of Annual and Five Year Plans, Administration of CWC and WDRA. Plan scheme/projects of RC Division namely, PEG Scheme, Silo Projects & Construction of godowns in NE. Liaison Officer for OBC and matters relating to Hindustan Vegetable Oils Corporation(HVOC).
2 / Shri Manoj Kumar Gupta / Director
(FC A/cs) / FC A/Cs
Fixation of procurement incidentals to the State Governments and its procuring agencies for procurement of wheat to the Central Pool, Fixation of procurement incidentals for Custom Milled Rice for the State Governments and its procuring agencies for Central Pool, Fixation of incidentals of coarsegrains for State Governments and its procuring agencies for Central Pool, Fixation of administrative and forwarding charges for procurement of levy rice, Fixation of gunny prices for State Governments and its agencies for procurement of wheat and Custom Milled Rice for Central Pool, Payment of Food Subsidy to the FCI. Payment of Food Subsidy to the state governments for procurement of foodgrains under Decentralized Procurement Scheme.
Settlement of outstandings of FCI against the various State Governments.
Policy-III
Under the E.C. Act- Issue and amendment of statutory orders to give effect to Government's policy relating to foodgrains, Grant of Central Government prior concurrence to the promulgation of statutory orders on foodgrains by State Governments and Union Territory Administrations, Delegation of powers to State Governments and Union Territory Administrations in respect of foodgrains, Giving of interpretations and clarifications sought by State Governments/ Union Territory Administrations and the public.
Policy regarding procurement of B.Twills bags by DGS&D on behalf of indenting organisation, FCI, State Governments, etc.
Matters regarding requirement of gunny/jute bags by FCI and various State Agencies.
3 / Smt. Simerjit Kaur / Director (FCI) / Establishment and Financial matters of FCI; administration of Food Corporation Act, 1964 (excluding Plan scheme/projects of RC Division namely; PEG Scheme, Silo Projects & Construction of godowns in NE)
4 / Shri Dinesh Kumar Gupta / Director (PD) / Policy matters relating to PDS, Inter-Ministerial Committee for allocation of PDS Commodities, Plan Schemes for strengthening PDS infrastructure, implementation, monitoring and evaluation of PDS/TPDS. Matters concerning Implementation of Food Security.
5 /

Shri Rama Kant Singh

/ Director
(Movement) / Responsible for proper and efficient movement of food grains, sugar etc., to various States, liaison with Railway authorities, liaison with FCI regarding movement of food grains. Matters relating to flour milling industries, disposal of damaged food grains.
Procurement of foodgrains under price support and examination of support price proposals from Ministry of Agriculture, Important matters relating to implementation of Procurement Policy.
Policy regarding sale of wheat in the open market by FCI, Policy regarding sale of rice/ paddy in the open market by FCI, Disposal of foodgrains by FCI/ State Governments.
6 / Shri G. S. Sahu, / Director (Sugar Policy) / Sugar Policy Desk.
Additional charge of Directorate of Sugar & Vegetable Oils.
7 / Dr. Bhagwan Dass, / Joint Director (Plan & NFSA) / National Food Security Act (NFSA), Plan Coordination.
8 / Shri Nand Kishore Kashmira / Director (SDF) / Matters pertaining to Sugar Development Fund Act, 1982, viz., subsidy on buffer stock of sugar loans to sugar factories for modernisation, rehabilitation of plant and machinery and for cane development, grant to establish institutions for research work connected with sugar industry.
9 / Sh. Kham KhanpauvaGuite / Dir/DS (SRA & EOP) / All Establishment matters in respect of all non-Secretariat Gr. A & B., Gr. C posts at HQ and Jr. Acctt-cum-Storkeeper in QCC Offices.
Policy matters relating to Edible Oils and Administrative matters of S&R Division.
Liaison Officer for SCs/ STs.
10 / Shri R.K. Pandey / Director (Finance) / To render advice to Additional Secretary& Financial Adviser on financial matters.
11 / Smt Hema Jaiswal / Deputy Secretary (Py-II & FC-II & III) / Appointment of officers, statutory transfers, Industrial disputes, legal matters of FCI. Court cases relating to EC Act/ Sales Tax, Shipping matters, handling/transport contracts, Accounts matter etc and Control Room.
12 / Shri Karmvir Singh / Director (Vigilance) / Vigilance and Staff Grievances.
13 / Vacant / Deputy Secretary (Welfare& Gen.) / Matters relating to Parliament, Welfare, departmental library, canteen and General Administration.
14 / Shri Suresh Sharma / Deputy Secretary (Admn.) / Matters relating to Administration, Coordination and CMT.
15 / Sh. Rajiv Mahendru / Deputy Secretary (SA & SL) / Sugar litigation I and II, Sugar Administration.
16 / Sh. K.M.S. Khalsa / Deputy Secretary (BP) / Allocation of Food grains from Central pool to States/UTs under TPDS and other Welfare Schemes administered by various Ministries/Departments. Allocation of food-grains to Defence Services.
17 / Dhirendra Kumar / Deputy Secretary (Impex & IC) / Matters relating to Official Language, International Cooperation(IC) and ICT.
Matters relating to Import and Export of Food grains

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