The State Government would be adding another 8 municipal regions to its ‘Core PDS’ service under its Public Distribution System (PDS) in the State from the first week of September.
This was informed at a training programme held for district-level officers of Food Department besides officials of National Information Science centres and Food Controllers, an official release issued here stated.
Under the ‘Core PDS’ system a ration card holder is able to pick up food grains from the shop of his or her choice. The ‘Core PDS’ system would be operational in two shops each of Bhilai, Dhamtari, Jagdalpur, Bilaspur, Raigarh, Korba, Ambikapur and Chirimiri municipal regions from the first week of September.
Thereafter, from the month of October the ‘Core PDS System’ would be operational from all municipal regions in the aforesaid districts by the name of PDS-Meri Marzi (PDS My Choice).