Proxy labourers in FCI :CAG Report

New Delhi Aug 5: Some irregularities have been unearthed.
Comptroller and Auditor General of India (CAG) has submitted an audit report o on the performance of the Food Corporation of India (FCI) for the years 2011-2016. several shocking irregularities have come into lime light.

* Laborers at its various depots were handling 998 to 1,776 bags per day.
* Proxy labors being paid by the food corporation.
* Currently laborers must lift only 105 bags per day.
* The laborers were actually handling 110 to 197 bags every hour, continuously for nine hours a day.
* FCI which lost a substantial quantity of its food grains lying in open areas
* 4.72 lakh tonnes of wheat valued at Rs 700 crore deteriorated and was declared unfit for public
distribution during 2007-12.
* Payments of more than Rs 230 crore towards unusual labor cost.

The auditor has recommended
# Elimination of proxy labor
# Proper documentation of prescribed details in the booking-cum-output slips
# Expediting installation of biometric attendance system
# Closed circuit television installations