Minister wants officials to follow up on ePOS to ensure quota of PDS beneficiaries
Shillong, May 30: Food, Civil Supplies and Consumer Affairs Minister Comingone Ymbon has urged the officials of his department to follow up on electronic Point-of-Sale(ePOS) machines by the Fair Price Shop dealers so that each beneficiary gets his or her entitlement without fail.
The suggestion was after holding a review meeting chaired by Ymbon and Pravin Bakshi, Commissioner & Secretary, of the department in the city attended by department officials along with DCs/SDOs, on Tuesday.
The meeting was held to assess various initiatives undertaken by the department like One Nation One Ration Card (ONORC), Aadhaar seeding, e-POS usage, capturing of all FPS GPS coordinates for route optimisation and tracking of movement of food grains across Meghalaya and others.
The One Nation One Ration Card has been implemented in the state to enable NFSA beneficiaries to lift their foodgrains from any Fair Price Shop in the state or country provided their Aadhaar number is seeded in the PDS database. To ensure transparency and accountability, electronic Point-of-Sale has been installed in each Fair Price Shop across the state. The minister also wanted to ensure 100% Aadhaar enrolment so that there is no cut of allocation. The minister commended the department for piloting the online tracking of movement of foodgrains in East Khasi Hills as this will help prevent diversion.
