Ration distribution

Recently Chief Secretary, held meetings of Food, Civil Supplies and Consumer Affairs (FCS&CA) Department and Legal Metrology Department regarding their performance and functioning here in the UT.

It was further revealed that the Department is distributing fortified rice to all the beneficiaries covered under different schemes. The meeting was also apprised that more than a million deletions were made while carrying out the de-duplication exercise and 67000 households added to PDS on shifting to RCMS.

About the digitization of ration cards, Aadhar seeding and automation of FPS, the meeting was apprised that these had already been saturated by the Department. It was further disclosed that 3736 IDs had been created after entering into an MoU with the CSCs for transformation of fair price shops in J&K.

Regarding One Nation One Ration Card policy, the meeting was informed that the facility is available across the UT on 6377 POS devices using which consumers can avail rations from anywhere they prefer. It was given out that 35 lakh portability transactions were made here till now.

While highlighting the future course of action it was disclosed that the Department is envisaging e-KYC of all the beneficiaries under all the schemes which currently stands at 83% for NFSA and 66% for Non-NFSA consumers besides implementing smart PDS and inclusion of PDS left out e-Sharm registrants.