2.82 lakh Fair Price Shops Install PoS devices so far

The website www.annavitran.nic.in is functional and is used to monitor the electronic transactions happening at the Fair Price Shops for the distribution of foodgrains to NSFA beneficiaries with the help of PoS devices. As per information received from States/UTs out of total 5.27 lakh FPSs, more than 2.82 lakh FPSs have been automated so far. State/UT wise statement is at Annexure.

The purposes of installing electronic Point of Sale (ePoS) devices at FPSs are authentication of beneficiaries and electronic recording of subsidised foodgrain distribution to beneficiaries.

As compared to earlier practice of manual record-keeping of the transactions, the ePoS based transactions have the advantage that the FPS dealers are not required to manually make separate/repetitive entries of foodgrain distribution in registers and ration cards of the beneficiaries.

 

Connectivity to ePoS devices at FPSs is ensured by State/UT Governments. In case connectivity is not there ePoS devices can also work in offline mode.

In accordance with The Food Security (Assistance to State Governments) Rules, 2015 under NFSA, GoI is providing financial assistance to States/UTs for installation of ePoS devices at the rate of Rs. 17/quintal of foodgrains distributed through ePoS devices, towards the expenditure incurred for the purchase, operations and maintenance of the ePoS devices. Such expenditure would be shared between Centre and State Governments on 75:25 basis for special category States/UTs and on 50:50 basis for General category States/UTs.

State/UT wise statement showing number of Fair Price Shops having PoS devices as on 05.12.2017

Sl. States/UTs Total No. of Fair Price Shops No. of FPSs with Operational ePoS1 Andhra Pradesh 28,663 28,6632 A & N Islands 482 3733 Arunachal Pradesh 1,731 04 Assam 38,238 05 Bihar 41,483 596 Chandigarh 0 07 Chhattisgarh 12,299 11,8988 D & N Haveli 62 629 Daman & Diu 51 5110 Delhi 2,260 1411 Goa 446 4212 Gujarat 17,209 17,20913 Haryana 9,513 9,51314 Himachal Pradesh 4,928 4,88815 Jammu &Kashmir 5,970 016 Jharkhand 23,356 23,11517 Karnataka 20,383 14,79918 Kerala 14,335 019 Lakshadweep 39 020 Madhya Pradesh 22,469 22,46921 Maharashtra 52,505 51,07922 Manipur 2,154 023 Meghalaya 4,651 024 Mizoram 1,247 025 Nagaland 1,691 026 Odisha 13,306 13,30627 Puducherry 0 028 Punjab 16,657 029 Rajasthan 25,928 25,79330 Sikkim 1,421 2031 Tamil Nadu 34,773 34,77332 Telangana 17,159 11,33933 Tripura 1,807 2534 Uttar Pradesh 80,457 13,18635 Uttarakhand 9,212 836 West Bengal 20,278 0 5,27,163 2,82,684

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