The Public Distribution System (PDS) would be made free from black marketeers and the State Government officials should expedite the preparation of manual of State food security commission. State Food and Civil Supplies Minister Pritam Singh said this while addressing a meeting of officials related with National Food Security Scheme, State Food Security scheme and end to end computerisation at his Vidhan Sabha office on Tuesday.
In the meeting the minister was informed that a state has earmarked a total of 1330404 families which are eligible under the National Food security scheme. He was also informed that appointment of District Grievance Redressal officer as required under National Food security Act has been done.
The minister held detailed discussions with the officials on the progress of end to end compurtization and PDS portal. The officers said that the process of digitization of forms of eligible candidates under the NFSS is completed and the process of digitization of cards under the state scheme is under progress.
The Minister ordered that the process should be completed by March 31. The additional secretary Food supplies Chandresh Yadav informed that the department has purchased a special machine for computerization of 196 godowns in the state and once completed it would help in increasing transparency.
The department would link the machine with 08 PDS shops in beginning as pilot project and later all the shops would be automated by the year 2017.
The department has also started a toll free number (1800-180-2000) and linked the samadhan portal with the portal of the department. The minister expressed his displeasure on slow pace of process of linking ADHAR cards of the consumers and asked them to complete it soon. The minister also asked for more physical inspections of PDS shops by the officials.
The meeting was attended by Principal Secretary Food and civil supplies Radha Raturi and others.