Excelsior Correspondent
JAMMU, Nov 17: Amit Sharma, Director Food, Civil Supplies and Consumer Affairs (FCS&CA), here today inspected major food store of the department.
He visited Food Store, Chatha-Satwari and pointed out lot of issues including conduct of repairs and renovation work in the store on top priority, arrival at a decision for dispensation or defunct and rotten old food grain stocks involved in an old dispute by the concerned Committee, requesting Food Corporation of India to provide two vacant sheds to FCS&CA department for temporary storage of food grains during repair phase, building-up road and related infrastructure, installation of webcams with night vision for 24×7 surveillance of movement of stocks, strict implementation of FIFO inventory management mechanism in all stores of department.
After this, the Director held a review meeting with all Assistant Directors of the department functioning in ten districts of Jammu division in which Project Management Unit Consultant, Dr Imran Khan also joined along with representatives of Linkwell Systems, who have provided POS Machines to the department. Apart from ensuring submission of routine reports, Director took a decision to fix direct responsibility at TSO/Area Inspector Level for removing mismatch between allocation and distribution of food grains in all the districts so as to ensure that all ration and civil supplies reach smoothly through online allocation to all legitimate ration card holders, strictly as prescribed under National Food Safety Act.
The Director issued advisories for regular disposal of Court Cases, revival of Supply Chain Management System with an active support of Department PMU, Data Correction Exercises with the support of District Committees, Completion of Aadhaar Seeding in a time-bound manner, full implementation of ePDS system, issuance of licenses to Fair Price Shop owners under fixed format, streamlining issuance and renewal of licenses to SKO retailers and wholesalers, organising Price Control Mechanism Committee Meetings in near future were taken-up.
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