To ensure maximum participation of people in monitoring of Public Distribution System (PDS) in the State, Haryana Chief Minister Manohar lal on Wednesday directed the officers concerned to reconstitute all vigilance committees from depot to State level.
These committees have been constituted at various levels i.e. depot, sub division, district and State level with an aim to monitor the distribution of essential commodities that are being distributed through the PDS.
The Chief Minister presided over a review meeting of Food and Supplies Department here.
While reviewing the functioning of the Department, the Chief Minister directed to launch awareness campaign so as to apprise people about various activities of the Department.
He said that open darbars and camps should be organised in the entire State to provide information about availability of ration, quality and its distribution. Also, the grievances of the people concerning the Department should also be redressed, he added.
Manohar lal also suggested that training programme of depot holders should be carried out by the Department. Apart from this, the toll free PDS and Consumer Helpline Numbers 1967 and 1800-180-2087 should be publicised in a big way.
The Chief Minister also asked to prepare a scheme for increasing the income of depot holders in the State.
During the meeting, Minister of State for Food and Supplies Karan Dev Kamboj informed that Central Government has fixed a target of 9.5 lakh Metric Tonnes (lMT) capacity for construction of steel silos in the state.
Out of the total, five lMT capacity steel silos would be created by Food Corporation of India and remaining of 4.5 lMT capacity would be constructed by the State government. The state has identified the areas where different state procurement agencies will set up these silos. The department and other procurement agencies were also constructing scientific storage for a capacity of 2.2 lMT, he added.
It was informed in the meeting that digitisation and verification of beneficiaries data has been completed. Digitization of 9352 Fair Price Shops and 479 godowns had also been completed by the department. Apart from this, supply chain management would be implemented in the entire state from next month.
