The Central Warehousing Corporation, Bhubaneswar celebrated its 61st foundation day on Thursday. The corporation was established on March 2, 1957 to provide scientific warehousing facility to a wide range of clients for the storage of agricultural produce and other notified commodities.
On the occasion former Union Food Secretary and adviser, State Planning Board RN Das, former Regional Manager, CWC, Bhubaneswar AK Jena, GM FCI HK Jain, ARD, Government of India Dr UK Mishra and RM, CWC, Dr HB Das were present.
It was stated that the regional office, Bhubaneswar achieved the record turnover of Rs 38.48 crore during the financial year 2015-16.
The corporation is engaged in diversified activities other than its core activity of warehousing like operation of Container Freight Station (CFS)/ Inland Container Depot (ICD), land custom station at international borders, operating container trains, pest control services (PCS) and consultancy services in the field of warehousing.
Regional office, Bhubaneswar is operating 20 warehouses with a capacity of 3.22 lakh MT for storage of food grains primarily for FCI and OSCSC ltd. The corporation is also helping cooperatives like IFFCO, NAFED, MARKFED, OAIC etc. The corporation is also contributing for various social activities by means of conducting farmers training programme at district level.