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The A.P.State Warehouse Corporation (APSWC) was established in August, 1958 under Sub-Section 1, Section 18 of the Warehousing Corporation Act, 1958 (Central Amended Act of 1962) enacted by the Parliament.  The Warehousing Scheme envisages providing storage facilities for food grains and other agriculture commodities, seeds, manures and fertilizers to minimize losses and deterioration in storage.  The scheme also aims to enable farmers to have easy and cheap credit facilities from Banks against pledge of the Warehouse Receipt to improve the holding capacity of the producer to avoid distress sales in harvesting season. 

     To realise the above objectives, the APSWC is empowered to acquire and build Warehouses for storage of agricultural produce, seeds, fertilizers and other notified commodities and also to act as an agent of the Central Warehousing Corporation or of the Government, for the purpose of purchases, sales storage, distribution etc.,  of Agricultural Commodities in time of need. 

ORGANIZATIONAL SET UP OF THE CORPORATION :

          According to Section20(a) of the Warehousing Corporation Act 1962, the General Superintendence and Management of the affairs of the State Warehousing Corporation are vested in the Board consisting of 11 Directors of whom 5 are nominated by the Central Warehousing Corporation,  the remaining 6 Directors are from the State.  The Chairman of the Board is appointed by the State Government with the prior approval of the Central Warehousing Corporation. 

ADMINISTRATIVE SETUP OF THE CORPORATION AT OFFICE AS WELL AS IN DISTRICT:

 The Management of the Corporation is organised in three tier system:

1.Head Office
2.Regional Office
3.Warehousing Centers 

    The Managing Director is assisted by Secretary, Executive Engineer and Four General Managers for Finance and Accounts, Personnel and Administration, Business and Logistics, Material and Quality Control.

REGIONAL OFFICES ARE LOCATED AT:

S.NO

Name of the Region

Operational Districts

1

VIZIANAGARAM

SRIKAKULAM,VIZIANAGARAM

2

KAKINADA

EAST GODAVARI

3

T.P.GUDEM

WEST GODAVARI

4

VIJAYAWADA

KRISHNA ,GUNTUR, PRAKASAM

5

CUDDAPAH

PRAKASAM,NELLORE,CHITTOOR,CUDDAPAH,
ANANTHAPUR,KURNOOL

6

HYDERABAD

MAHABOOBNAGAR,R.R.DISTRICT,TWIN CITIES,MEDAK

7

NALGONDA

NALGONDA,KHAMMAM

8

KARIMNAGAR

NIZAMABAD,KARIMNAGAR,WARANGAL,ADILABAD

Each Region is headed  by a Regional Manager and is provided with an Assistant Manager (Technical) to look after the Quality Control work of the Food grains stored in the Region and also supporting staff like Senior Assistants, Junior Assistants, Typists, etc. The Regional Manager, besides attending to the improvement and extension of business  activities of the Corporation will regularly inspect the Warehouses for physical verification of stocks, records quality control work and proper preservation of stocks stored in the warehouses. They are delegated with necessary administrative and financial powers for effective and smooth function.

 The Warehousing Centers have been classified as Grade-I, II and III depending upon the capacity of the Warehouses. Staff consisting of Warehouse Manager, Asst.Manager(Technical), Asst.Warehouse Manager, Junior Assistants, Gauard-cumPeon have been provided.

  Click here to See the Warehouse Employees Hierarchy  Chart 

                                          

 

 

 

 

                                                                Andhra Pradesh State Warehousing Corporation