Reassuring to streamline the public distribution system in Madhya Pradesh, State Food and Civil Supply Minister Vijay Shah on Tuesday said the consumers would get food grains by using fingerprint in six districts from January next year.
While talking to media persons here on Tuesday, Shah said, “Initially, the system is going to be introduced in Bhopal, Indore, Hoshangabad, Khandwa, Harda and Burhanpur districts and later it will be introduced in other districts too.”
He said bills would also be provided to consumers by the PDS owners from January 1. Shah said he met Union Food and Civil Supply Minister Ramvilas Paswan recently and urged him to provide additional five per cent food-grains to the state. Paswan obliged and the state started getting the food-grains.
Reiterating the state regime’s commitment to weed out corruption in the PDS, the Minister said stringent action would be taken against the corrupt shopkeepers. He informed that under the provision of the National Food Security Act, 2013, the new system in targeted PDS system under the Mukhyamantri Annapurna Yojana (MAY) began from March 1 this year.
Shah said under the new system, the consumers are getting wheat and rice at Re one per kg. The Minister said in order to check adulteration in petrol, a regular checking system would be introduced and officials would visit the petrol pumps every month. Shah said there are 22,000 government fair price shops in the state and a training programme was organised today to train the shopkeepers.