Chhattisgarh has achieved 100 per cent digitisation of land records in all 27 districts of the State, said officials.
The digitisation of the records had been carried out of 19,530 land records in 20,000 villages. The records included digitisation of ‘Khasra and ‘B-1’ records. The physical map have also been digitised and 95 per cent of these are available online. The rest of the maps will soon be made available online.
Chhattisgarh is among only six other States in the country out of 36 States and Union Territories which have its supply-chain management system under Public Distribution System (PDS) completely digitised so far, officials stated.
Moreover, with a view to modernising the Targeted Public Distribution System (TPDS) the Central Government has initiated a plan scheme on ‘End-to-end Computerisation of TPDS Operations’ on cost sharing basis with the States/UTs. The scheme comprises activities, namely, digitisation of ration cards/beneficiary and other databases, computerisation of supply-chain management, setting up of transparency portals, FPS automation etc. Notably, the State Government has also prepared a comprehensive action plan for ensuring total transparency in the preparation of ration cards besides evolving a mechanism for error-free identity of PDS beneficiaries.
Under the action plan, the mobile, bank account and Aadhar numbers of the beneficiaries are being collected.
Officials informed data entry of details of more than 39,40,556 PDS beneficiaries have been completed out of the popular 63,51,736 beneficiaries.
Moreover, in a bid to strengthen the Public Distribution System (PDS), as many as 2653 fair price shops have been opened in the State in past 11 years including 66 new shops in 2014-15. With this the total fair price shops in the PDS system in the State has gone up to 11111.
Officials claimed Chhattisgarh is a model state in Public Distribution System (PDS), which is transparent and ration are provided on schedule.
Officials of Food, Civil Supply and Consumer Protection Department said that the State government had implemented the Public Distribution System (Control) Order on December 23, 2004 to monitor the allotments to the fair price shops and for timely lifting and distribution of ration.
To provide ration to the beneficiaries every month, there are 11111 fair price shops in the State. This includes 9795 shops in rural areas and 1316 shops in urban areas. The gram panchayats are operating 4083 shops while cooperative societies are operating 4361 shops. Besides this 2458 shops are being run by the women Self Help Groups (SHG), 152 shops by Forest Protection Societies and 56 shops are being run by the urban bodies.
At present there are 771 shops in Raigarh, 763 in Rajnandgaon, 756 shops in Bilaspur, 622 in Janjgir-Champa, 578 in Durg, 565 in Raipur, 522 in Mahasamund, 515 shops in Baloda Bazar-Bhatapara, 424 in Jashpur, 415 in Korba, 414 in Balod and 403 shops each in Kanker and Surajpur.