Under this Fair Price Shop automation system, fake and bogus ration cards would be easily identified and minimise the leakages in the distribution of PDS items. Beneficiaries will get food grains through ePOS (Electronic Point of Sale) device with proper authentication like Aadhar or OTP. – Manipur chief Minister.
KRC TIMES Desk
For an transparent, error free public distribution system, PDS, in the state, Manipur Chief Minister N. Biren Singh launched the Fair Price Shop Automation system on Tuesday.
Speaking at the function, the Chief Minister said that such system would bring transparency and streamlined the distribution of PDS items to the beneficiaries. Under this Fair Price Shop (FPS) automation system, fake and bogus ration cards would be easily identified and minimise the leakages in the distribution of PDS items, he added. He mentioned that beneficiaries will get the food grains through ePOS (Electronic Point of Sale) device with proper authentication like Aadhar or OTP.
Chief Minister highlighted that the FPS automation would be made available in 10 FPS for the first phase in the State.
There would be 2324 Fair Price Shops and 23,87,949 beneficiaries with 5,69,688 ration cards in the State. The monthly allocation of National Food Security Act (NFSA) rice in the State is 131632.45 quintal.
Deputy Chief Minister Y. Joykumar, Minister for Art and Culture L. Jayantakumar, Minister for CAF&PD Karam Shyam, Minister for Forest and Environment Th. Shyamkumar, Minister for PHED, Losii Dikho, Minister for Agriculture V. Hangkhanlian, MLAs, Chief Secretary, Commissioner, DCs, Director and officials of CAF&PD, Agents of FPS attended the function where officials made a demonstration on the usage of the ePOS machine.
