Haryana Chief Minister Manohar lal on Tuesday directed the concerned department and food procurement agencies to work in close coordination for the timely implementation of ‘Food Net Programme’ envisaged to ensure transparency and plug leakage and diversion of farmers produce.
The ‘Food Net Programme’ is being implemented with the concept of ‘Earth to Mouth’ and would have online details right from sowing of crops in the fields to the consumption of produce.
The Chief Minister while presiding over a meeting on ‘Food Net Programme’ here said that the implementation of the programme would help in keeping online record of various agriculture activities like actual quantity of foodgrains produced and its procurement, billing and storage which would ensure transparency by way of plugging leakage and diversion of their produce.
During the meeting, it was apprized that Haryana State Agricultural Marketing Board (HSAMB) has completed the task of verifying the licenses of all arhtiyas in the state. Online data of all mandis upto September 2015 is available with the Board and the online seeding of the remaining data after this period is in progress and 70 per cent of this work has been completed.
All fair price shops in Haryana would be made online on November 1 and these shops would also be linked to the Food Net programme.