The State Government is going to introduce ‘Apni Suvidha-Apna Ration Yojana’ (ASAR) at all fair price shops in Bhopal Municipal Corporation area from October. Food and Civil Supplies Department has directed Collector Bhopal in this regard.
Training of salesmen and their assistants (one each) of fair price shops in Bhopal city is beginning from September 23. During the training, information will be given about functioning of Point of Sale Machines. For implementation of the scheme in Bhopal, every Junior Supply Officer has been entrusted responsibility to post names, Aadhar Numbers of fair price shops’ salesmen, name, code and mobile number of fair price shops on Samagra portal. Junior Supply Officers have also been directed to physically verify initial stock of ration materials available as on October 1, 2015 and post the same on the portal.
There would be no compulsion of allotment of food grains to fair price shops from Directorate of Food under ASAR. Materials will be supplied on demand by fair price shops by Madhya Pradesh State Civil Supplies Corporation.
Under the system, a fair price shop can be allotted upto maximum 3 times
more than its initial monthly allotment. Under the scheme, eligible families whose Aadhar Numbers are registered in database can purchase food grains from any fair price shop of their choice in the city.
Remaining families will get materials from their fair price shop only. A member of the family will take eligibility slip to a fair price shop. After entry of Samagra ID of the family in Point of Sale Machine, list of its members will appear.
The machine will select the name of the person who has reached the fair price shop. His membership will be verified on thumb impression of right hand on POS machine. later, ration as per availability and receipt from machine will be given.