Jammu and Kashmir government is in the process of devising supply-chain management system (SCMS) to check pilferage of foodgrains coming from Food Corporation of India (FCI) to the state.
"National Informatics Centre (NIC), the executing agency, has been directed to expedite the work on developing the system so that the amount of foodgrains leaving FCI and reaching the state godowns can easily be tracked," Minister for Consumer Affairs and Public Distribution (CAPD) Chowdhary Zulfkar said addressing a meeting here.
SCMS is one of the important components of Electronic Public Distribution System (EPDS) that CAPD department is implementing to keep track of the entire distribution system and ensure zero per cent pilferage.
The Minister has ordered constitution of a high-level committee consisting of Secretary Information Technology (IT), Secretary CAPD, Director NIC and Director Finance to monitor the progress on SCMS and EPDS.
The committee would be headed by the Secretary IT.
The Minister also directed all the agencies including State Road Transport Corporation (SRTC) and the oil companies to install GPS trackers within a month on the vehicles that ferry food or petroleum products for CAPD department.
A control room would also be set up to monitor the movement of the CAPD trucks and oil containers in entire state, the minister said.
During the meeting, it was also decided that Point of Sale (PoS) machines would be installed on pilot basis at Samba and Kulgam.
