The person gets the ration in the shop and the data is immediately sent to the server and uploaded on the website
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Udupi: By October end, Udupi will be the first district to install Point of Sale (POS) Machines in all the Public Distribution System (PDS) Shops of Udupi. Udupi has been chosen for a pilot project of installing POS Machines. Based on the results and the experience of two months in the district (November and December), the state government will extend it to other districts. At present there is no system to know the real time details of ration in the PDS shops at the month end.
So there are possibilities of shop owners selling the remaining food material to others for higher price instead of distributing it to the real beneficiaries. POS is a small machine with a sim card and provides real time details about ration. The person who comes to purchase ration in the PDS shop has to give his thumb impression in this machine which matches it with the data and generates a chit of the products allotted by the government to him.
The person gets the ration in the shop and the data is immediately sent to the server and uploaded on the website. Thus the department gets real time details of ration sold in each shop.
This will in turn help the officials in stopping black marketing of PDS material. Once POS Machines are installed, authorities will get the exact details of the material sold in the ration shops. There will be no room for cheating by PDS shop owners.
“The data needed for the POS is being prepared and the process of feeding Aadhaar inputs is in progress. Aadhaar details and EPIC data are matched with the ration card data of each card holder. This will be completed by October end after which ration will be distributed through POS Machines,” Deputy Director of Food and Civil Supplies S. Yogeshwar told Deccan Chronicle.
“PDS shop owners too will benefit from this system. They will be provided Rs 17 extra (per quintal of the food material they sell) by the government (in addition to the present handing charges). This will help the PDS shop owners too. All have agreed to install the machines,” he said.
The process of installing this machine in all 289 PDS shops will be completed in the district by October end. “This is a pilot project in Udupi. The pros and cons of the system would be studied for the next two months before enforcing it in other districts from next year,” he added.
( Source : deccan chronicle )
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