New Delhi: Union Minister of Consumer Affairs, Food and Public Distribution Ram Vilas Paswan has directed the Food Corporation of India (FCI) to deliver four months of grain to every part of the country to meet the requirements of food grains under government schemes. The Union Minister has given this instruction to FCI in view of the difficulties arising due to transportation during the rainy season.

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Paswan said on Sunday through a tweet, "The rainy season is commencing. In view of this, the Food and Public Distribution Department and the FCI have instructed that sufficient grains for the next four months reach the mission mode in every part of the country be delivered as soon as possible so that there is no shortage of food grains due to transportation problems in the rain. " With the arrival of the monsoon, it is raining in different parts of the country and during the four months of the rainy season, it is difficult to deliver food especially in the mountainous areas which are not connected by rail and road. FCI is using goats to deliver food from the Pangla godown of Pithoragarh in Uttarakhand to inaccessible areas of the Himalayas.

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Paswan said in a tweet, "FCI is undertaking the difficult task of transporting food grains from inaccessible to inaccessible hilly areas of the country. From Pangla Godown in Pithoragarh in Uttarakhand to the inaccessible villages of the Himalayas where even the horses do not reach, there are hillbilly goats delivering grain. 

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