While addressing a review meeting of Food & Civil Supplies department Chief Secretary RS Sharma said extensive changes are needed in the areas of Food Security, subsidies should be eliminated in phases and Global Positioning System should be used to make the supply chain better.
CS said there are a number of schemes for ensuring food security however due to lack of implementation intended beneficiaries are getting benefit of the schemes. He instructed the department to conduct survey and prepare a report to ascertain the reach of welfare schemes and to find out deficiency in implementation. Significantly, Sharma showered praise on Andhra Pradesh, Chhattisgarh for their impressive performance in public distribution system and asked the authorities to study the system in these states and implement schemes on the same pattern.