AP Fair price shops to be interoperable

VIJAYAWADA: The Andhra Pradesh  Cabinet, which met here at the CM’s camp office on Tuesday, decided to introduce an inter-operable system across fair price shops in the state. Chief Minister N. Chandrababu Naidu said that a ration card holder could purchase essential commodities at any fair price shop across the state with the new system. Briefing the media on the Cabinet decisions, Mr Naidu said essential commodities would be delivered at home to differently abled persons. He said margin money for FPS dealers would be hiked to Rs 70 from Rs 20 per quintal. This would burden the exchequer by another Rs 77.44 crore. The Cabinet decided to invite specialist doctors to work in state-run hospitals under the NTR Vaidya Seva scheme and had drawn up modalities for the purpose, Mr Naidu said.