A review meeting was chaired by Food, Civil Supplies and Consumer Affairs Minister, Comingone Ymbon, and Commissioner and Secretary of Consumer Affairs, Pravin Bakshi, here today.
The meeting was held to assess various initiatives undertaken by the department, like One Nation One Ration Card (ONORC), Aadhaar seeding, electronic Point-of-Sale (e-POS) usage, capturing of all fair price shop GPS coordinates for route optimization and tracking of movement of food grains across Meghalaya, etc.
ONORC has been implemented in the state to enable beneficiaries to draw their foodgrains from any fair price shop (FPS) in the state or country provided their Aadhaar number is seeded in the public distribution system (PDS) database. To ensure transparency and accountability, electronic Point-of-Sale has been installed in each FPS across the state.
Ymbon urged the officials to take note of the usage of ePOS machines by the FPS dealers so that each beneficiary gets his entitlement without fail and also to ensure 100 percent Aadhaar enrolment so that there is no in of allocation.
The minister also commended the department for piloting the online tracking of movement of foodgrains in East Khasi Hills as this will help prevent diversion in the near future.