Haryana Chief Minister Manohar lal on Friday announced that the State Government will soon launch a new programme namely ‘Food Net’, in order to ensure transparency and prevent the leakage and diversion of the farmers’ produce.
The Chief Minister, who was speaking after launching of Automation of Fair Price Shop at Panchkula, said that under the Food Net programme, the entire details right from the sowing of seeds by the farmer in the fields upto the storage of produce in godowns would be recorded, thus leaving no space for its diversion.
Further, this programme would be linked with these Fair Price Shops, he added.
On this occasion, the Chief Minister distributed 25 kilogram wheat, two kilogram sugar and seven litres kerosene oil to five beneficiaries of Panchkula under the Public Distribution System by using Point Sales Device (POSD).
The aim of Automation of Fair Price Shop is to ensure the distribution of ration to the real beneficiaries under the Food Security Act in a transparent manner. Initially, Automation of Fair Price Shop would be implemented in five districts of the state, namely Panchkula, Ambala, Yamunanagar, Karnal and Panipat.
later, it would be rolled out in the entire state by March 31, 2016. As per this system, Fair Price Shops would be provided POSD having biometric system which would allow the real beneficiary to get ration without any delay. The POSD would also generate an electronic slip mentioning the details of the beneficiaries, like rate and quantity of ration delivered. Thereafter, the beneficiary would receive an SMS alert on his or her mobile phone within two minutes. Simultaneously, the account of the beneficiary would be debited on the database of the main server of the Department.
Manohar lal said that the aim of the present State Government is to ensure that the last beneficiary in the row gets the benefit through end-to-end computerisation.
He said that the State Government has also decided to disburse the social security pension in the Haryana directly into the bank accounts of the beneficiaries. At present there are total 22 lakh beneficiaries, out of which bank accounts of 14 lakh beneficiaries have been opened and they are getting pensions directly into their accounts.While speaking on the occasion, Minister of State for Food and Supplies, Karan Dev Kamboj said that Automation of Fair Price Shop would discourage those people who manage to get the ration through fake signatures.
The beneficiaries in the state are being linked with Aadhar Card and so far, 73 per cent families have been linked with Aadhar.
He said that the in case the beneficiary faces any problem in getting ration, they could dial toll-free numbers 1800-180-2090 and 1967 to register their complaints.