Haryana Chief Minister, Manohar lal on Friday directed the Food, Civil Supplies and Consumer Affairs Department to establish Project Management Unit (PMU) in the department to further strengthen the Public Distribution System (PDS) in the State.
Presiding over a meeting of the Department here, he said that this would make the entire system easy for the consumers and would also help in promptly resolving the problems being faced in distribution of ration under the PDS.
The Chief Minister said that about 1.22 crore consumers were getting the benefit of PDS. He directed that where the facility of online distribution of ration is not available, arrangements for same in offline mode should be made till the system is put in place. He also directed to bring uniformity in names mentioned in Ration Cards or Aadhar Cards so that the consumers do not face any difficulty while taking ration.
He also directed to develop an Aadhar based system to make the PDS system cashless. He said that the PDS be linked with the Aadhar Cards of consumers and those consumers who did not have Aadhar Card should be given enough time to get their Aadhar card prepared.
Those present in the meeting included Chief Secretary D.S Dhesi, Principal Secretary to Chief Minister, Rajesh Khullar, Additional Chief Secretary Food, Civil Supplies and Consumer Affairs S.S Prasad, Principal Secretary Electronics and IT, Devender Singh and other senior officers of the State Government.