Excelsior Correspondent
SRINAGAR, Aug 9: Chief Secretary, Atal Dulloo, today held meetings of Food, Civil Supplies and Consumer Affairs (FCS&CA) Department and Legal Metrology Department regarding their performance and functioning.
Those present includes Commissioner Secretary, FCS&CA; Controller, Legal Metrology Department; Director, FCS&CA, Jammu/Kashmir and other concerned officers either physically or virtually from Jammu.
During the meeting, the Chief Secretary took note of the progress made by the department in automation of their Fair Price Shops (FPS), Aadhar authentication and addition of eligible families besides implementation of one ration card one nation programme.
He also assessed the performance of the department regarding updation and digitization of ration cards and timely delivery of ration to the consumers at government approved rates.
Dulloo took this occasion to impress upon the department to include Kashmiri Pandits in the NFSA database for extending benefits of different schemes to them. He also directed for completing the registration of e-Shram card holders under PDS as per Apex Court directions.
The Chief Secretary further took note of the transportation of ration for door step delivery to consumers in different parts of the UT.
The Commissioner Secretary, FCS&CA, Zubair Ahmad informed the meeting about the current status of ration distribution and other initiatives taken by the department to make PDS more efficient in the UT.
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.
The Controller, Legal Metrology, Majid Khalil Drabu while throwing light on the performance of the Department made out that it enforces provisions of the Legal Metrology Act to regulate weights & measures here by way of their verification/ re-verification besides licencing of dealers, manufacturers and importers of packaged commodities.
Regarding the performance of the Department it was divulged that out of the 75,871 applications the Department has approved 70,158 applications with remaining with the applicants for certain clarifications.
During current financial year, it was given out that 120 verification camps were held across different districts of the UT. It was said that 203 petrol pumps were also verified with calibration of 2407 nozzles during this period.
About generation of revenue from stamping/verification by the Department it was enunciated that an amount of Rs 299 lakhs were collected besides Rs 12.29 lakh on account of user charges from weighbridge crane.
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