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Ration shops to double up as financial service providers in Chhattisgarh

Besides banking correspondent services through tie-ups with banks, the shops will be allowed to sell other commodities and general store items

Food subsidy, ration shops, Public distribution system, PDS, food grains, poor, poverty, welfare schemes
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The scheme is called CORE (Centralised Online Real-time Electronic) PDS

R Krishna Das Raipur
The Chhattisgarh government has decided to set up model fair-price shops (FPS) in each district and encourage owners to act as banking correspondents for providing financial services.

The state has around 12,300 fair-price shops across 33 districts. The state government is, however, encouraging FPS owners to provide a host of services besides acting as a banking correspondent. “The model government fair-price shops will be started in all the districts of Chhattisgarh in a phased manner,” state’s food secretary Topeshwar Verma said.

Department officials have been asked to start preparations for this. The shop will be identified in a district after

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