The Haryana government today said it has decided to distribute manually essential commodities for November and December at fair price shops where point of sale (POS) devices have not been installed or are not functional due to any reason.
While stating this today, Minister of State for Food and Supplies (Independent Charge), Karan Dev Kamboj, said that a decision to this effect was taken during a meeting presided over by Chief Minister Manohar Lal Khattar here today.
He said that under the Public Distribution System, the State Government was distributing ration after biometric authentication of the beneficiaries through FPS automation.
However, reports had been received from various places that distribution of commodities was being delayed due to technical issues with the point of sale devices and servers and other related issues.
Therefore, as a stopgap arrangement until the redressal of these issues, beneficiaries would be provided essential commodities after 30 seconds of their attempt to register their thumb print on the point of sale devices at fair price shops such devices have already been installed.
This would allow registration of all data of the beneficiary concerned in the device. Work to implement this system has been undertaken on war footing and it is expected that the system would become functional within the next four days, he added.
He said that the sale of all essential commodities for November, 2016 would end at midnight on December 3, 2016.
Following this, allocation of all essential commodities for December would be carried out.
Those beneficiaries who have already received their ration in November would be provided ration only for December, and those who did not receive ration in November would get ration for both months in December, he added.
He said that the Food and Supplies Department has started work to resolve the technical issues on war footing.
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