The government is going to introduce Point of Sale (PoS) machines at fair price shops in seven more districts with an aim to ensure more accountability and transparency.
Minister for Food, Civil Supplies and Consumer Affairs and Tribal Affairs Chowdhary Zulfkar Ali said this during a stock taking meeting today to review the progress on implementation of electronic Public Distribution System (e- PDS).
The new seven districts to be covered under e-PDS are Anantnag, Bandipora, Kulgam of Kashmir region while Reasi, Kathua, Poonch and Udhampur of Jammu region would be provided PoS machines by mid-January 2018, the minister said.
The endeavour is aimed at enabling the department to keep track on all kinds of financial transactions, he added.
The minister directed Linkwell Tele systems to install PoS machines in all left-out Fair Price Shops (FPSs)in the already covered districts by December 31.
In view of inclement weather, officials were directed to mobilise all resources to ensure adequate availability of food grains and LPG, besides other essential commodities, he added.
Reviewing the status of division wise target of ration cards for Aadhaar seeding, the Minister assigned the target of 31,000 beneficiaries for Aadhaar seeding in Jammu and 22,500 for Kashmir, exhorting the officers to complete it by December-end.
Strengthening of the monitoring system in the department by geo-tagging of its assets through Geographical Integration System was also discussed.
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