Excelsior Correspondent
AHMEDABAD (Gujarat), May 5: Minister for Food, Civil Supplies and Consumer Affairs, Chowdhary Zulfkar Ali today conducted field visits of various automated fair price shops in Ahmedabad city of Gujarat to get on ground operational knowledge of e-PDS in the State so that similar technology is applied in J&K.
The Minister who was accompanied by officers of J&K State, Food Department of Gujarat and Collector Ahmedabad, conducted visits in the vicinity of Ahmedabad where he checked automation operation of the Fair Price Shops. He met people visiting FP Shops and also held deliberations with Ration Dealers to know about the working experience on the automated machines installed by the Gujarat Government.
The Minister was briefed about the online services, offline services of automated machines, SMS services and grievance portal. He was given in detail presentation about the working of Point of Sale Machine. The Minister also visited various stores of civil supply material besides automobile oil shops. He was also briefed about AADHAR and OTP system, offline transaction through local ePDS database and billing compliance through SMS.
The Minister took stock of the “successful implementation of Electronic Public Distribution System (ePDS)” in the State and said that such system has brought total transparency in this State. He said that Gujarat Government has implemented ePDS in highly efficient manner where the system is benefiting consumers by lessening the chances of pilferages.
The Minister said that he also wanted to stop the practices of pilferages in Jammu and Kashmir and for that purpose his department is adopting ways and means to make the system fully transparent. He added that the aim of such visit is to get information about ePDS and end to end computerization so that the similar revolution is done in J&K state.
The Minister said that in Jammu & Kashmir all fair price shops will be provided a system having biometric machine that will allow the real beneficiary to get ration without any delay.
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