The Food Corporation of India was setup under the Food Corporation Act 1964, in order to fulfill following objectives of the Food Policy:

• Effective price support operations for safeguarding the interests of the farmers.

• Distribution of foodgrains throughout the country for public distribution system

• Maintaining satisfactory level of operational and buffer stocks of foodgrains to ensure National Food Security

Details of operations of FCI are available on www.fciweb.nic.in

FCI has around 2000 depots all across the country for storage of foodgrains.

FCI proposes to organize a contest on the MyGov platform for designing a template for sign boards to be placed in all FCI depots.

The design of the templates should be as per the following specifications:-

1) The template should be so designed that it should be possible for FCI to use them in different sizes depending on the size of the depot and it should also be possible to get it painted on the walls of depot or even the roof of FCI depots.
2) The ratio of length to breadth should be 3:2
3) The design template should necessarily have the logo of FCI(available on the FCI website www.fciweb.nic.in) and the words “Food Corporation of India” and “BhartiyaKhadya Nigam” in English and Hindi fonts respectively. It should be possible to write Food Corporation of India and BhartiyaKhadya Nigam in Regional language also, depending on the location of the depot on the same design template.
4) The design template should also have place holder for mentioning the capacity of the depot as well as the name and address of the District at which it is located.
5) Creative use of design and colours on the template can be made sothat the design template looks attractive.
6) The objective of the contest is make the design of the sign boards standard across all FCI depots so that it becomes the signature of the FCI depots.

The last date for submission is 19.02.2014.

The winning entry will be awarded a cash prize of Rs.10,000/-.

The entries received in ‘Contest for designing a template for Sign Boards to be put on FCI Depots’ http://mygov.in/task/contest-designing-template-sign-boards-be-put-fci-depots/ competition earlier would also be considered during fresh evaluation. Those who had already submitted signboard designs as per the earlier notification may also participate for submitting new entries during this time.