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Department of Food in brief


1. Directorate of Food is the only agency under the Ministry of Food of the Government of the People's Republic of Bangladesh. During the colonial period in 1943 to deal with famine in Bengal, the then provincial government issued Bengal Rationing Order/1943 and Bengal Civil Supplies Dept. by establishing. From 1955 to 1956, the Civil Service Department was phased out. As a result of the extinction, the price of food products increased abnormally and the country became chaotic. As a result, in 1956, the then government hastily re-established the food department as a private supply department. In 1957, the Food Department was converted into a permanent department. After independence, the Food Department was established under the Food and Civil Supplies Ministry with the previous institutional structure consisting of five departments called 'Food and Civil Supplies Department'. Later, the current institutional form was given by reorganizing and reorganizing under the name of Directorate General of Food. Since in the past there were food shortages in different parts of the country; Therefore, the Department of Food became one of the most important departments of the Government of Bangladesh. At present, the Food Directorate is serving as a very important institution of the Bangladesh government with the aim of building up the country's emergency stock and ensuring food security.


2. Directorate of Food is the only agency under the Ministry of Food. The current Food Directorate was established under the name of Civil Supply Department to deal with the Great Famine that arose in undivided Bengal during the Second World War. When British India was partitioned in 1947, the Food & Civil Supply Department started its journey in the then East Pakistan under the name of Food & Civil Supply Dept. Although permanent structure of the Food Department was provided in 1957, the Departments of Administration, Collection, Supply, Distribution and Rationing, Movement and Storage, Inspection and Quality Control, Accounts and Finance continued to perform their functions separately. In 1984, as a result of the administrative reform program, 6 Directorates were merged and the reorganized Directorate General of Food was established. In the late nineties, a new department called Training was added to the Food Directorate. The Director General holds overall responsibility as the Chief Executive of the Food Department. An Additional Director General provides overall support to the Director General in operational activities. 7 directors are engaged in 7 departments of the directorate for the various activities of the director general. The officers and employees at different levels of the Directorate of Food perform their respective duties assigned under the Directors. The entire country has been divided into 7 regions in line with the administrative divisions of the country to carry out overall food management activities at the field level. The District Food Controllers are in charge of the districts under the Regional Food Controllers who are in charge of the regions and departments. 1 upazila food controller is employed in each upazila. There are a total of 5 silos, 13 CSDs and 631 LSDs across the country. The present effective storage capacity of these food warehouses is about 19.50 lakh tonnes. silos, CSDs at strategic locations across the country and at least 1 LSD in each upazila of almost all districts of the country, Administrative and operational functions of food management are carried out through two or more LSDs in important upazilas. 

In continuation of this, from 1984, Kalkini upazila of Madaripur district started its journey as "Office of Upazila Food Controller".