The District Administration has decided to computerise the Fair Price Shops of Mahasamund district by next month.
Collector Umesh Kumar Agrawal during a review meeting on Tuesday directed officials to send the proposal for constructing additional godowns after assessing the storage capacity of the fair price shops.
All the fair price shops should maintain a required Board Price list, Distribution Register and file complaints and suggestions, said the Collector.
Officials were also told to keep a watch on the meetings of the Monitoring Committee and verification on the arrival or non-arrival of the food grains.
Agrawal asked to streamline the management of fair price shops. He further asked of holding Paddy Festival on fixed dates. Apart from fair price hops, the Collector directed to do Aadhaar seeding and registration of bank account numbers.
Directions on providing ration cards to the left-out applicants including widows, destitutes, single women, differently abled persons and families of backward classes were given by the Collector.
Inquiry on connecting the names of these families with the database will be carried out, stated officials.Those who are still devoid of Aadhaar card or have not linked Aadhaar number with ration card should be covered under the service by sending teams for Aadhaar registration to these areas, said the Collector.