JK govt to implement solution to check foodgrains pilferage

Jammu and Kashmir Government is in the process of devising a supply-chain management system to check the pilferage of foodgrains coming from Food Corporation of India to the state.
"National Information Centre (NIC), the executing agency, has been directed to expedite the work on developing the system so that the amount of foodgrains leaving FCI and reaching to state godowns can easily be tracked," Minister for Consumer Affairs and Public Distribution Chowdhary Zulfkar said at a meeting here.
The system is one of the important components of Electronic Public Distribution System (EPDS) that CAPD department is incorporating to keep track of the entire distribution system and ensure zero percent pilferage.

The minister also directed to form a high level committee consisting of Secretary Information Technology (IT), Secretary CA&PD, Director NIC and Director Finance to monitor the progress on SCMS and EPDS.
The Minister also directed all the agencies including SRTC and the oil companies to install the GPS trackers within a month on the vehicles that ferry food or petroleum products for CA&PD department.
A control room would also be set up to monitor the movement of the CA&PD trucks and oil containers in entire state, the minister said.
During the meeting, it was also decided that Point of Sale (PoS) machines would be installed on pilot basis at Samba, and Kulgam, where Aadhar seeding is on the higher end, an official spokesman said.