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Hello Jammu News at 7:02:00 PM 0


SRINAGAR, DECEMBER 20:  Director Agriculture Kashmir, Syed Altaf Aijaz Andrabi today convened a high-level meeting to review the implementation of Direct Benefit Transfer (DBT) system and to review the progress on installation of Point-of-Sale (PoS) machines at all the fertilizer sale centres and outlets across Kashmir Division
Chief Agriculture Officers of all the districts of Kashmir Division, officers of Law Enforcement Agencies, other concerned officers, representatives of different fertilizer companies, fertilizer distributors and dealers were present at the meeting.
Speaking on the occasion, Director Agriculture said that the installation of Point-of-Sale machines at all the fertilizer sale outlets across Kashmir Division is one of the series of reforms adopted by the department in bringing transparency in the fertilizer distribution system. He instructed the concerned agencies to achieve 100 percent target in the installation of “PoS machines” in all the fertilizer sale centres across the Kashmir Division within the stipulated timeframe.
He said that these machines are connected to a server that uploads every transaction on the portal and can be monitored in any part of the country. He said these machines display price, quantity and other credentials of the customer, which leaves no scope for any malpractice in the system.
Director Agriculture said that the department is leaving no stone unturned in introducing digitization at its all the levels of functioning in order to strengthen transparency and accountability in the department.

He said that the installation of PoS Machines will definitely keep a check on the black marketing.
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Hello Jammu News at 7:31:00 PM 0


Exhorts officers to meet set deadlines under e-PDS

JAMMU, DECEMBER 11:  As a sequel to equip the fair price outlets with Point of Sale (PoS) machines to ensure added accountability and transparency, the government is going to launch this hi-tech facility in seven more districts.
Minister for Food, Civil Supplies and Consumer Affairs and Tribal Affairs, Chowdhary Zulfkar Ali informed this today during a meeting held with the officers of Food, Civil Supplies and Consumer Affairs department to review the progress on implementation of electronic Public Distribution System (e-PDS)
The new seven districts to be covered under e PDS are Anantnag, Bandipora, Kulgam of Kashmir region while in Reasi, Kathua, Poonch and Udhampur of Jammu region which would be provided PoS machines by mid-January 2018. The endeavor is aimed at to enable the department keep a track on all kinds of financial transactions.
The Minister, while taking stock of installation of these devices in FPSs, directed M/s Linkwell Tele systems to install PoS machines in all left out FPSs in the already covered districts by 31st December.
The Minister also reviewed the district wise target allotted and achieved under PDS besides variation under PHH, NPHH and Exclusion category. He directed the concerned to ensure that the variation in the target reports shall be reduced to zero for both PHH and NPHH category.
In view of inclement weather, the officers of FCS&CA department of both regions were directed to mobilize all resources to ensure adequate availability of food grains, K oil, LPG besides other essential commodities.
With regard to stock position of ration, LPG, petrol etc, the concerned Assistant Directors in formed that department has stocked advance ration in sale centers across the valley and hilly areas of Jammu region.
Reviewing the status of division wise target of ration cards for Aadhaar seeding, the Minister assigned the target of 31,000 beneficiaries for Aadhaar seeding in Jammu and 22,500 for Kashmir asking the officers to complete it by ending December.
Regarding strengthening of the monitoring system in the department by geo-tagging of its assets through Geographical Integration System, the meeting was informed that mapping of 6334 fair price shops has been completed against the target of 6553 and entries of details of the Vigilance Monitoring Committee on the portal has been completed for 5884 FPSs till date.
The meeting was informed that total number of 1392628 new ration cards have been distributed in Kashmir while 698380 in Jammu.
The Minister directed Commissioner Secretary FCS &CA to constitute a task force under the supervision of administrative secretary and both the directors of FCS&CA who will submit a panel of officers and task assigned to them for smooth execution of supply chain management on the portal. He directed the officers of NIC to impart training to the officers to ensure that supply chain would be implemented from Jan 01.
The Minister also directed the concerned to make all the newly established fair price shops operational within shortest possible time.

Commissioner Secretary FCS&CA Department M D Khan, Director, FCS&CA Kashmir, Joint Director, FCS&CA Jammu, Deputy Directors, Assistant Directors of Jammu Division, officers of National Informatics Centre and other departments were present in the meeting which was also attended by ADs of other districts through Video conferencing.
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Hello Jammu News at 5:20:00 PM 0

GANDERBAL, NOVEMBER 22:  Commissioner Secretary Food, Civil Supplies and Consumer Affairs (FCS&CA), Mehraj-ud-Din Khan today launched Point of Sale (PoS) machines at Nagbal Sale Centre of District Ganderbal. 
Director FCS&CA Nisar Ahmad Wani, ADDC Ganderbal, N.A Baba were present on the ocassion.
Giving details about the project, the Commissioner Secretary said installation of PoS machines is one of the important components of Government’s initiative of digitizing the entire FCS&CA department through electronic Public Distribution System and a step towards transparency of the department.
The Commissioner Secretary informed that all the PoS machines will be Aadhar enabled with an inbuilt speaker. He further said PoS machine will also calculate the amount which consumers are required to pay for their ration.
Later, Commissioner Secretary convened a meeting in Mini Secretariat, DC Office Complex Ganderbal to review stock and supply position and current scenario of his Department in Ganderbal.
In the meeting, Commissioner Secretary took stock of availability of essential commodities, winter stocking at far-flung areas of the district Ganderbal.

The AD Food Ganderbal, Erim Aziz informed the Commissioner Secretary about the stock and supply position of essentials and also informed him about the developmental scenario of the district.
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Hello Jammu News at 6:09:00 PM 0
Reviews progress of implementation of ePDS in JK
Installation of PoS Machines on Pilot basis to be launched on Nov 12
 from district Samba 


JAMMU, NOVEMBER 8 - Minister for Food, Civil Supplies and Consumer Affairs, Tribal Affairs Chowdhary Zulfkar Ali today asked the officers of the department to work with proactive approach for successful implementation of Electronic Public Distribution System (ePDS) in the state.
Speaking during the meeting convened to review the progress of implementation of ePDS in the state, the Minister said that to make the system fully transparent, it is important that every aspect of ePDS should be completed as soon as possible so that visible changes can be noticed on the ground.
The meeting was attended by Commissioner Secretary FCS&CA Mehraj-ud-din Khan, Director FCS&CA Kashmir Nasir Khan Wani, Director FCS&CA Jammu R A Inqalabi, Deputy Secretary Arun Kotwal, Joint Director FCS&CA Jammu, Deputy Directors, Assistant Directors of Jammu division and other senior officers of the department.
During the meeting, the Minister discussed district wise target reports and asked Directors Jammu/Kashmir to ensure that the variation in the target report is reduced to zero for both PHH and NPHH category immediately. He asked the officers to place right beneficiary in right category to avoid any disturbances during ration distribution.
While discussing the progress on trial run of Supply Chain Management in the state, the Minister said that on December 1, 2017, Supply Chain Management will be made operational in the state adding that all the related work needs to be completed before its formal launching.
Regarding Aadhar seeding, Zulfkar seeks district wise report and asked for achieving the given targets in 20 days. “All the generated Aadhar should be seeded immediately as it has been made mandatory for receiving ration March 31, 2018 onwards. Taking note of slow progress of Aadhar seeding especially in Kashmir division, the Minister fixed the targets for districts and asked the concerned to complete it within 15 days.
To strengthen the monitoring system in the department by geo-tagging of its assets through Geographical Integration System (GIS), the Minister sought the district wise details of capturing of GIS Information of Fair Price Shops. While discussing the progress made on this important aspect of monitoring system, Zulfkar asked for completing the same within 2 days.
Speaking about the installation of Point of Sales (PoS) machines on pilot basis in government food outlets, Fair Price Shops (FPS), the Minister said that PoS installation will be launched on November 12 from district Samba.
For entering the details of the Vigilance Monitoring Committee on the portal, the Minister directed the concerned to complete the task within 7 days. While lauding the efforts of Assistant Directors, who have shown good performance in capturing of GIS Information of Fair Price Shops and completing the task of Vigilance Monitoring Committee, the Minister asked the Commissioner Secretary FCS&CA to award appreciation letters to those deserving officers.
On the slow progress on distribution of ration cards to the beneficiaries especially in Jammu division, the Minister directed the concerned to distribute the same to the consumers immediately under all categories. The Minister was informed that in Kashmir division, the work on distribution of ration cards has almost been completed.
During the meeting, all the Assistant Directors were directed to forward daily report of Ration Cards being distributed in their respective districts to the appointed nodal officers. Zulfkar also asked the nodal officers to ensure the distribution in given time frame.
Regarding the establishment of Call Centre Cum Command and Control Room in the Directorates, it was informed to the Minister that both the directors have visited Hyderabad to check the existing system there and soon the work on the same would be initiated in the state.
 In order to maintain the old records of the department especially of Trade & Store, the Minister asked for digitalization of records for future reference.
It was also decided in the meeting that all the payments to SRTC will be stopped till they install GPRS on their vehicles carrying food grains and government order in this regard will soon be issued by the administrative department.
Later, the Minister also reviewed status of installation of Bio-Metric attendance system in  all offices and stores of the department.

Speaking to the officers, the Minister stressed on  strict adherence of instructions issued in the meetings and said the decisions taken in the review meetings should be implemented in letter and spirit. He also emphasized on need for making collective efforts in improving the functioning of the department.
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