Jammu: Director FCS&CA Jammu Dr Naseem Javaid Chowdhary Wednesday conducted surprise inspection of Fair Price Shops (FPS) in Bishnah area to check the compliance of guidelines and norms by FPS dealers for delivery of food grains under Public Distribution System.
He was accompanied by Deputy Director, Dr Javed Iqbal Rather, Assistant Director, Jammu Rural-II, Vipan Bhagat and other officials of FCS&CA department.
The Director visited the Government food store at Bishnah and adjoining Fair Price Shops to assess the implementation of online Aadhaar Authentication through electronic point of sale machines (epos) installed at every fair price shops and implementation of Aadhar seeding, especially through electronic point of sale machines. The Director also assessed the online sales of food grains under ongoing govt. programmes of NFSA and PMGKAY.
During the checking, Naseem Javed Choudhary also directed the concerned officers to take necessary steps to ensure its smooth functioning and to take immediate necessary measures to display of stock of food grains outside each and every FPS so that every beneficiary should know the availability of food grains in the concerned Fair Price Shop.
He further directed the concerned officers to ensure that all the prescribed information is displayed on the boards of all FPS and ensure that no laxity will be tolerated on the part of “erring” FPS dealers.
He directed the officers to conduct surprise visits more frequently and ensure that all SOP’s of COVID-19 are followed while providing the ration to the beneficiaries.
The Director was also appraised by the accompanying team that under Public Distribution scheme, Govt. is running two major programmes by the name of National Food Security Act and Pradhan Mantri Garib Kalayaan Anna Yojna and more than 80 percent food grains have been distributed in both the schemes in entire Jammu division.
