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| Govt to implement ePDS to end pilferage in JK: Zulfkar | | Minister visits FPS, food godowns of Tamil Nadu | |  Early Times Report
Chennai (Tamil Nadu), Oct 12: Minister for Food, Civil Supplies and Consumer Affairs, Chowdhary Zulfkar Ali visited Tamil Nadu and took stock of the successful implementation of 'electronic Public Distribution System' (ePDS) in the southern state.
The Minister also hold meeting with senior functionaries of Tamil Nadu government regarding implementation of end to end computerization.
As a part of study tour to study successful implementation of Electronic Public Distribution System (ePDS) in different parts of country, Chowdhary Zulfkar Ali along with senior officers of Food, Civil Supplies and Consumer Affairs of the State visited various Fair Price shops and Food Godowns in Chenni city and its rural where they get in-depth knowledge about successful implementation of ePDS.
The Minister during his field visit interacted with officials and officers associated with Public Distribution System and also received knowledge about the smart functioning of the Civil Supplies and Consumer Protection Department of Tamil Nadu.
He also checked automation of Fair Price Shops in Chenni and also visited hi-tech godowns and got brief about the automation system by Commissioner of Civil Supplies and Consumer Protection Department Tamil Nadu along with other officers during field visit. The Tamil Nadu Officers briefed Minister about online transaction by using AADHAR and OTP system, offline transaction through local ePDS database, billing compliance through SMS. Officers also briefed about working of public portal for beneficiaries, G2G service by web portal, Integrations of DPC, FCI, Godowns and FPS, operations and maintenance and accountability system in the state.
They also briefed about software application technology of open source -cloud based, structured database with configurable entitlement engine & SLA Management, Application Software, Multilingual support of software and other serious techniques used to bring transparency in the Department.
He said that J&K Government is also going to install these machines in the state so that to bring total transparency in the system. He said state government led by Chief Minister Ms Mehbooba Mufti is committed to bring 100 per cent transparency in the state and his Department is working day and night to realize the dream.
Asserting Tamil Nadu government has implemented ePDS in highly efficient manner and has lessened the chances of pilferages, J&K Minister said that he also want to stop the practices of pilferages in Jammu and Kashmir and for the same. "Our Department is adopting ways and means to make the system fully transparent, he underlined and added that the objective of the visit is to get information about ePDS and end to end computerization so that the same is implemented in Jammu & Kashmir in more efficient manner."
The Minister appreciated toll free grievance redrassal mechanism in Tamil Nadu and also lauded them for Escalation Matrix Monitoring & Alert system, Live Chat, Email Services, Knowledge base for stakeholders and SMS service and hoped that they would also start SMS notification for consumers in the state in near future.
The minister was accompanied with a team officers from Tamil Nadu and JK Government comprising Dr K Gopal, Principal Secretary TN Government and Managing Director Tamil Nadu Civil Supplies Corporation, S Madumathi, Commissioner Civil Supplies TN, P Raman Saraswati Joint Commissioner TN and Nissar Wani, Special Secretary, FCS&CA, J&K. |
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