Adding another feather to the cap of Uttar Pradesh, the Food and Civil Supply department has been chosen for the Excellence in Digital Governance award.
President Ram Nath Kovind will give away this award on December 30, 2020.
In order to push the agenda of UP Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath to bring in transparency in every field, the Food and Civil Supply department has used online and transparent techniques in procurement, payment to farmers and public distribution system in the state.
According to Food Commissioner Manish Chauhan, the state government has implemented an online system of procurement of wheat, paddy and maize, the despatch of these items from purchase centres and the despatch of paddy from centres to FCI depot, billing and payment in the accounts of farmers through PFMS portal.
The portability facility under ‘one nation, one card’ for ration cards has also been provided online.
He said that the Government of India had sought presentations from different states and ministries with regards to project/innovative techniques for digitisation and on the basis of the assessment, the department of Uttar Pradesh had received this honour.