Live
- GMR Airports Unveils AI-Powered Digital Twin Platform to Transform Airport Operations
- India poised to become leading maritime player: PM Modi
- Top Causes of Kidney Stones and How to Recognize Silent Symptoms
- India’s renewable energy capacity logs 14.2 pc growth at 213.7 GW
- Winter Session of Odisha Assembly adjourned sine die
- Biden calls Trump's tariff approach 'major mistake'
- After Drama Over Eknath Shinde’s Chief Minister Race, Maharashtra Cabinet Formation Faces New Tensions
- Egyptian FM, Blinken discuss recent developments in Syria
- Iran's supreme leader says Syria's developments result of US-Israeli 'plot'
- Elon Musk to Purchase $100 Million Luxury Mansion Next to Donald Trump's Mar-a-Lago, Report Reveals
Now, FPS activities turn see-through
Food and Civil Supplies Minister Eatala Rajender launched ‘T-Ration’, a mobile application for card holders aimed at ensuring more transparency, at the Civil Supplies Bhavan here on Friday.
Hyderabad: Food and Civil Supplies Minister Eatala Rajender launched ‘T-Ration’, a mobile application for card holders aimed at ensuring more transparency, at the Civil Supplies Bhavan here on Friday.
Speaking on the occasion, Telangana Civil Supplies Commissioner C V Anand said the ‘T-Ration’ app would erase distances between the government and the beneficiaries. There are 2.75 crore PDS (Public Distribution System) beneficiaries in the State.
Anand said a card holder, after downloading this app in his/her mobile phone, could view the live status of Civil Supplies commodity stocks from any place of his comfort and get direct access to the operational statistics (stock position, distribution pattern and others), precisely of that time in the ration shop concerned.
“This app designed with the help of National Informatics Centre (NIC), also allows the officers concerned to discharge their duties from anywhere by accessing 13 applications positioned for the purpose,” he said.
“By connecting to this app, and by entering his/her card number, the card-holder virtually can locate the nearest rations shop, and gets direct access to live activity of that shop and even know the complete information of several things like the monthly quota allotted, and drawn, how much a card holder is getting, availability of types of commodities,” he explained.
Apart from this, one can also know the status of their ration card, the stocks available in godowns, loading and unloading details from seven applications under G2C (services of the government to its citizen) excluding 13 applications meant for the government. The card holder can even get the transactions made through ePOS (electronic point of sale) machines. On ration shop location, Anand said the facility of ration portability was already available to all card holders.
“With this one can draw their ration from any ration shop of their choice other than that allotted to him/her. To make this task much easier to the beneficiary, all shops are getting geo-tagged,” he said. The government service (G2G) section of the app contains 13 applications and is exclusively meant for the officials of the department. Anand said a total of 17,500 Fair Price Shops in the State would be fully automated with ePOS machines by November this year, adding, “Tthese machines are installed in 8,546 shops spread over in 14 districts. So far, two crore transactions had taken place.”
“The closed-circuit cameras installed in the godowns would also be linked to the Command Control Centre shortly,” he said. Anand said they were also making arrangements to purchase paddy and other related payments through this app. “With this, common man can watch the activities of the department in the real time from the comforts of their place,” Anand added.
