Special Focus on Quality of Fine Rice

Commissioner of Civil Supplies C.V.Anand has directed officials to pay special attention to the supply of fine rice for the Mid-Day-Meals Scheme without any compromise on its quality.

The Telangana Government is supplying almost 1.20 lakh metric tons of fine rice (BPT 5204, Sona Masuri) to government hostels and for implementation of Mid-Day-Meals Scheme.  Of late, many complaints had come on quality of fine rice and hence instructions were issued to all collectors and joint collectors.  With an idea of making distribution of fine rice to schools/hostels more transparent, accountable and responsible, detailed guidelines were issued.  Education Department was also requested to communicate the guidelines to all their field staff for proper implementation, Anand said.

Henceforth, school headmaster shall certify that the rice delivered, after cooking, is fine rice.  Once rice is off-loaded at the school premises (received by the HM), within 24 hours, the HM shall get the rice cooked and certify that it is fine rice(sanna biyyam).  If, after cooking, it is found that the rice is “doddu biyyam (though by look, it is fine rice) the concerned HM shall inform the Tahsildar and return the rice within 24 hours.  In such cases, action would be taken against the DT (CS) route officer and Tahsildar.

Once certified by HM that the cooked rice is of fine rice quality, if later, during inspection or based on any complaint it is found that the rice used for cooking is doddu biyyam, action shall be initiated against the concerned HM.  This shall be done every month, MEOs shall get the certificate of cooked rice from every HM and forward it to DEO. The DEO shall certify that only fine rice is cooked and given to children for the entire district.

These instructions are necessary to ensure that fine rice alone is made available to the schools under MDM scheme. All the collectors are requested to issue similar instructions in their districts. They may ensure that the above instructions are scrupulously followed in the schools and the HMs and MEOs be made responsible for proper check and submission of the certificate that the rice cooked and made available to the children under MDM Scheme is fine rice.

Banking at fair price shops

The Civil supplies Department was implementing a project to facilitate bank transactions through the e-POS terminals at the fair price shops spread across the state.There are 17,200 fair price shops, many of them at remote places where banks do not have their branches.

The fair price shops can be the points of Aadhaar enabled payment system, where bills can be paid online through biometrics or iris scan.This will be effective in the context of the push for digital transactions post-demonetisation.

"The project will be initiated in a month’s time, and implemented phase-wise in all FP shops by April next year.The present e-POS system is based on Linux operating system, and needs to be changed to Android,” Mr. Anand said.

The Department would be calling for tenders soon for purchase of Aadhaar-linked Android-based e-POS machines, the Commissioner Civil Supplies said.

Ton of joy for C V Anand

C. V. Anand hit an unbeaten 100 to guide Secunderabad Club to a six-wicket win over Amberpet CC, which had made 239 for 5 in 35 overs. IPS officer Anand led the willow charge for Secunderabad Club with his belligerent knock as the team overhauled the target in 33 overs to hand Amberpet their first defeat in 13 games this season. The Sporty Supercop made good on a promise he had made earlier in the week to hit a century in the upcoming league match.

CSC introduces road transport of gunny bags

The Civil Supplies Corporation had commenced exercise to recover gunny bags which are lying with the rice millers for a long time as it entails saving of Rs. 66 crore.

Civil Supplies Commissioner C.V. Anand focussed his attention on the recovery of gunnies as they were lying stagnant with millers. It was a practice of the Civil Supplies Corporation to provide bags to millers for sending the procured paddy for custom milled rice. It was mandatory for the millers to send back the rice after milling in the same bags, they were, however, keeping the remaining bags with them and this resulted in piling up of the bags.

The Civil Supplies Commissioner held discussions with the millers in this regard and directed the officials concerned to prepare detailed lists of millers from whom the bags were due. The Commissionerate also decided to transport new gunnies from Kolkata by road as it would save huge amount to the corporation besides cutting down the time delay. Adopting this method, the corporation was expected to save Rs. 8 crore at Re. 1 on each bag.

In addition, it was decided to purchase four lakh metric tonne of ‘doddu biyyam’ (coarse variety rice) from rice millers to meet the requirement of the public distribution system. It was accordingly agreed to purchase the rice at Rs. 2,400 a quintal with an understanding that the corporation would bear the cost of two gunnies costing Rs. 106. As this could lead to financial losses to the corporation, discussions were held with millers and they were convinced to utilise gunnies already lying with them under the CMR accounts for delivering the coarse rice and the move had resulted in saving of Rs. 13.27 crore to the corporation.

GPS to track PDS trucks

Telangana Civil Supplies Commissioner C V Anand on Sunday said that all vehicles supplying commodities, especially rice, from godowns to fair price shops would be equipped with Global Positioning System (GPS) gadgets to prevent black marketing.
Addressing a review meeting with the transport contractors here, the Civil Supplies Commissioner said that all Stage-I and Stage-II vehicles carrying rice and other commodities from the FCI godowns to MLS points would be equipped with the GPS. This would ensure that the vehicles carrying PDS rice are not diverted to other routes.
He appealed to the contractors to support the initiative as it would prevent black marketing of PDS items. Anand, said that his department was making all out efforts to prevent diversion of PDS stocks and was keeping a strict watch on the movement of stocks from Civil Supplies Corporation godown  to Fair Price shops to ensure that the essential commodities reach the genuine beneficiaries and that no malpractices and diversions takes place.

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The Commissioner said that installing GPS systems in vehicles will not put any additional burden on the operators as it can be recovered with increased profits once the system was in place and diversion of food grains was checked.

He made it clear that the vehicles carrying stocks should not cross the district border without obtaining prior permission of the civil supplies corporation. He said all concerned must ensure that only one telephone number was allotted to each vehicle on a permanent basis. Transport contractors will be given special ID and password to know the whereabouts of their vehicles.
Responding to the request of the transport contractors to give them two years term instead of one year, the Commissioner said the term of the contractors, who worked honestly without any complaints will be given extension for one more year.

Distribution of ration cards in new Telangana districts completed

Less than two months into the formation of districts, the civil supplies department has completed the distribution of ration cards among all the 31 districts. Hyderabad stands first with more than 5.77 lakh ration cards holders while Asifabad district has the least number of ration cards holders with just 1.37 lakh cards.

With the division of ration cards, the entire system of Public Distribution System (PDS) has been brought in tune with the administration of new districts in a record time.

As far as Ranga Reddy, Hyderabad and Medchal districts are concerned, orders would be released on Tuesday due to the introduction of modified E-PoS in these districts.

In all 1,40,538 MTs of rice, 69,54,000 packets of sugar, 69,72,029 kgs of salt have been earmarked to be distributed among 69.73 lakh card holders for the month of Dec. Before the bifurcation of districts, 85 lakh cards were in circulation in the 10 districts.

The commissioner gave clear instructions to officials to distribute the items properly and in time without any delay.

Civil supplies corporation in TS to raise Rs 3000 cr loan

Due to dearth of funds, the state government allowed the civil supplies department to raise Rs 3,000 crore loan to buy paddy.The decrease in revenues of the state government due to demonetisation and the subsequent impact on trade affected paddy procurement this season as civil supplies department procures around 20,000 tonnes paddy every season.

The decision to raise loan was taken in the maiden governing council meeting of Telangana civil supplies corporation.Later, the department issued orders permitting the corporation to avail cash credit limit of Rs 3,000 crore from Corporation Bank, Indusind Bank, Andhra Bank or any other bank.

The orders said the state government will stand guarantee for the cash credit limit.

Meanwhile, the governing council meeting of the corporation also decided to further strengthen the corporation by filling the vacant posts and appoint staff on temporary basis waiting for the state government’s nod.

Civil supplies commissioner C.V.Anand conducted a  meeting and discussed at length 15 major issues including the financial position of the corporation. The meeting decided to set up enforcement, IT, finance and technical wings and recruit accountants and other technical staff. It also ratified the new logo of the corporation. The enforcement wing will have retired police and revenue officials. It was decided to appoint a financial advisor to the corporation to avoid financial mismanagement.

Rs 120 cr saved in the purchase of rice

The Civil Supplies Corporation has convinced the rice millers to supply fine rice varieties at Rs.30.50 per kilogram to welfare hostels and Mid Day Meals programme, thereby saving Rs.40 crore for the exchequer, a press release from the Civil Supplies Department claimed on Tuesday. Further, Rs.80 crore would be saved in the purchase of rice for public distribution, the note said.

Old stocks of steamed rice, BPT-5204, Sona Masuri and Samba Masuri varieties will be supplied for the next three months. Though new stocks have arrived, the new rice will be sticky till it becomes old, the note said.

The corporation has also persuaded the millers to purchase paddy at not less than Rs.1,800 per quintal, the note said. A total of six lakh tonnes will be supplied by millers who were also brought around by the corporation to supply at Rs.2,400 per quintal for Grade-A and Rs. 2,350 per quintal for ordinary variety, inclusive of market fee and gunny bags. This will save Rs.80 crore of public money.

Automate Ration Shops, Install CCTVs In Godowns: C.V.Anand

Fair Price Shops are proposed to be fully automated with ePOS (electronic point of sale) machines in Telangana, where plans are also afoot to install CCTVs in godowns, as the government looks to improve the public distribution system.The state's Civil Supplies Department has floated a tender for selection of system integrator for implementing Aadhaar-enabled PDS in the state, which has a total of 17,200 FPS.

Commissioner of Civil Supplies, C.V.Anand said the vendor, who would implement the project on a Build-Own-Operate mode, is expected to be finalised next month, and added that the automation is proposed to be completed in the state by February.

As of now, FPS level transactions are being conducted manually in the state, except in Greater Hyderabad Municipal Corporation (GHMC) area, department officials said.

CCTVs are being planned in each of the 171 godowns (mandal-level stock points), and have them connected to Joint Collector's and the Commissioner's offices adding that a project report in this regard is being prepared.

All civil supplies transport vehicles are being monitored through GPS at the head-office, he said.

The department also planned to send bulk SMS to FPS dealers and ration card holders on availability and movement of stocks. A WhatsApp number would be soon be made available to the public through which they can lodge complaints. This is in addition to other complaint channels, Anand said.

For example, a ration-card holder can send photos of closed FPS when it's supposed to be open, he explained.With online procurement and supply management systems already in place in Telangana, the decision to demonetise Rs. 500 and Rs. 1,000 notes did not have any impact on farmers as money is being transferred to their accounts, Anand said.

"Telangana is one of the few states where 100 per cent Aadhaar seeding has been done for the ration cards. We are in a very good position to leverage the benefits of e-POS machines and Aadhaar-based transactions. There are a total of 2.75 crore PDS beneficiaries in the state," he said.

Officials said the IT-based initiatives would ensure that PDS benefits are delivered only to intended beneficiaries, prevent diversion of essential commodities and improve transparency and accountability in operations.

Legal Metrology Department to adopt latest technology

The Legal Metrology Department of Telanagana State is going to adopt latest available technology to make it more dynamic and fruitful. ‘The efforts are on in this direction and to start with we are equipping 45 employees with laptops in the first phase’, declared C.V. Anand, Commissioner, Civil Supplies Corporation and Legal Metrology Department while reviewing the performance of the Metrology Department in Civil Supplies Bhavan on Saturday. DLMOs (District legal Metrology Officers) participated from all the 31 districts.

The meeting discussed about the jurisdiction of officers and their duties. The Commissioner clarified that the officers can respond on 43 trading issues while emphasizing their focus on frauds in weights and measures, selling more than MRP, irregularities in petrol pumps, Gold jewellery shops, paddy purchase centres etc. He had also indicated to earn almost two times more revenue if the stamp fee is raised.

While providing a direction to the department, he said “ Now all 31 districts are having a DLMO each and as such the jurisdiction of DLMO is amply reduced as districts are now smaller comparatively. This should reflect more here after on the efficiency of DLMO. All the field officers henceforth should be pro active in the discharge of their duties. From now on targets would be fixed to each District Officer, which helps in the increase of revenue. Every day a report should reach the HQ on the performance of each unit. “Here after, all the cases registered by DLMOs and other important information would be put online, said the Commissioner. He also informed the meeting that a separate manual would be put in place shortly for the department.

C.V.Anand suspends corrupted employees

Cracking down on corrupt staff members, Civil Supplies Department Commissioner CV Anand suspended four temporary employees on charges of corruption.In a meeting held at his office with district managers and technical staff on Friday, Commissioner Anand expressed dissatisfaction over the allegations faced by some employees in the Quality Control Wing.

Asking the employees to not indulge in corrupt practices, the commissioner warned of stringent action, including dismissal of employees from duties. “The government will not hesitate to sack the corrupt staff, for the betterment of public,” he warned. The employees removed from services were MSA Saleem (Karimangar), J Bhasker Reddy (Nalgonda), V Venkata Ramana (Khammam) and A Balreddy, all worked in the Quality Control Wing. It is high time for the employees of all the wings to change their attitude, he said.

Farmers have expressed dissatisfaction about the payments of their production. The staff were asked to take necessary steps to help the farmers in paddy purchasing centres, the commissioner said, asking the officers to give letters for delay in online payments to the notice of head office.

He also assured of recruitment in technical and accounting departments, to overcome the staff shortage

Cash transfer to farmers an instant hit

The new system of online cash transfer to farmers within two days introduced by the Civil Supplies Corporation has helped it procure 4,500 metric tonnes of paddy for the Kharif season; and, that too, in just a week after the procurement centres opened. 

The Corporation, which has already opened 400 centres, most of them in places like Nalgonda and Karimnagar districts, has plans to open more than 2,000 centres throughout the State for the first time during the season.

According to officials, previously the cash payment to farmers used to be delayed for days on end, and sometimes even months, discouraging them from selling rice to the government. However, recently a decision was taken at a high-level meeting to provide them MSP (Minimum Support Price) within a couple of days of procurement. 

Apart from introducing this mechanism, orders were issued to maintain procurement centres with all the equipment ready needed for smooth functioning. An officer of the Deputy Tahsildar cadre is also being appointed as the validation officer at each of the centres being currently operated. 

“We began conducting awareness amongst ryots about farming activity in the districts, production, and the market position. Handbills and posters have been spread out as part of awareness and precautions needed to be taken by the farmers,” said an official. 

The government had announced Rs 1,470 for ordinary quality and Rs 1,510 for ‘Grade A’ per quintal of paddy. For this Kharif season, the Corporation has targeted procurement of 30 lakh metric tonnes of paddy, through more than 2,000 centres. Last year, during the same season, in all 1,671 centres were opened.

The procured paddy is being immediately supplied to the rice mills for Custom Milling Rice (CMR). Interestingly, within the set deadline, 220 metric tonnes of CMR was received from the milling stations by the Corporation, which was earlier delayed by months.

It may be mentioned here that during a recent meeting, Commissioner of Civil Supplies CV Anand had stressed that CMR should be returned before 30 days of delivery of paddy. “As per the norms prescribed by the Central government, CMR should be handed back within 15 days. But owing to the ground level problems, we have extended it by another 15 days,” he explained

C.V.Anand asks rice millers to do business honestly

Civil Supplies Commissioner C.V. Anand was paying special attention to the issue of delivery of 57781 MTs of CMR rice worth Rs 134 crore from 115 rice millers from 2010-11 to 2014-15.

After holding a series of meetings with millers, the Commissioner convened a special meeting on October 25 and put forth the following proposals before them and the final decision will be taken after discussing with Finance Minister Etela Rajender. Only on delivery of 100% CMR dues the government will consider lifting of criminal cases, 6A cases and recovery under RR Act. If the millers deliver 100% CMR dues before November 30, cases will be lifted and seized mills will be re-opened and allot paddy for custom milling as per milling capacity.

If they deliver 75% CMR dues now, paddy will be allotted for custom milling as per milling capacity provided the balance 25% CMR is delivered before January 31, 2017. Those who deliver 50% CMR dues now, the balance 50% should be delivered before March 31, 2017. No. relaxation is allowed for the millers who deliver CMR below 100 MT. Millers have to deliver CMR in their own gunnies.
Those who are not in a position to deliver CMR, they are allowed to permit cash as per the market rate. On these proposals, millers represented to exempt payment of interest delivery of 50% CMR dues in the present Kharif season and the balance 50% in the ensuing Rabi season.

Responding to the request of the millers, the Civil Supplies Commissioner informed them that due to on-delivery of CMR as per schedule, Civil Supplies Corporation was forced to pay interest running into crores on cash credit and hence there was no possibility of exempting interest. While disagreeing with the proposal of millers, he advised them to make best use of the opportunity given by the Government.

The Commissioner advised the millers to do their business honestly and rice milling industry should not get bad name in the eyes of public for the illegal activities of 10 out of 100 millers as the rice milling industry is also a part and parcel of CS department, Government will always extend its full cooperation as long as they do business honestly. The Commissioner assured them that there will not be any problems form their staff and the government will always extend full cooperation. Finally the Commissioner of Civil Supplies advised the millers to have social responsibility towards the society without looking at everything on commercial angle.

Special Drive to recover 5 cr Gunny bags worth Rs 2oo cr

Civil Supplies commissioner C.V.Anand has ordered a special drive to recover gunny bags from rice millers. Nearly 5 crore gunny bags worth Rs 200 crore have been missing for the last five years.

The Government had supplied stocks in these gunny bags for customised milling rice meant for public distribution system. The millers failed to return the bags and the government is facing severe shortage to make fresh paddy purchase from farmers.

Mr.Anand held a video conference with joint collectors and department officials of all districts on sunday.He directed to submit a mill-wise list of the gunny sack hoarders.The officials were asked to conduct special drives to collect jute bags from the millers immediately.

All time record in collecting CMR dues

The Civil Supplies Corporation has set an all-time record by collecting 98 per cent of the dues of Custom Milling Rice (CMR), a press release from the department informed on Saturday. A total of 1.58 lakh metric tonnes of rice worth Rs. 421 crore has been collected from millers within a month’s time during the special drive launched by the commissioner C.V. Anand, the note informed. This is part of the 15.65 lakh metric tonnes of total custom milled rice collected by September 30 for this year, out of 15.88 lakh metric tonnes due.

The State government had purchased 23 lakh MT of paddy grain from various purchase centres, and gave them to the millers subject to the central government’s guidelines of 68 kilograms of boiled or 67 kgs of raw rice for every quintal of paddy. The delivery has to be done on 15 days, but the rice millers delayed it, the note said. Total dues were recovered in Karimnagar, Medak, Nizamabad, Khammam and Ranga Reddy districts, the note said, and praised the role of Joint Collectors in achieving the result.

Instructions were also issued to prepare an action plan for recovery of dues worth Rs.133.99 crore for non-delivery of 57,781 MT of paddy by 115 rice millers between 2010-11 and 2014-15. The commissioner has directed for stringent action against the defaulting millers, it said. Furnishing of bank guarantees by millers to avoid delays is being mulled over, the note warned.

Proactive Administration

In tune with the formation of new districts, the Civil Supplies Department saw a churning of its employees with the long standing officials in Hyderabad and Ranga Reddy districts shifted to the newly created districts through counselling that was personally monitored by head of the department C.V. Anand till late on Saturday night.

After completing the process, Mr. Anand, who is the Commissioner, ordered all those who were allotted to the new districts to collect their orders by Monday and asked them to report at their designated places on Tuesday, positively at 10.41 a.m., the time fixed for issue of final notification on new districts.

Mr. Anand in a statement said that counselling was taken up for three wings - Civil Supplies Department, Civil Supplies Corporation and Legal Metrology. Seniority, past performance, reputation and long standing at a particular position were taken into consideration for shifting the officials.

As the process was conducted openly, several issues like deputations and long pending transfers were solved to the maximum satisfaction of the employees.

Mr. Anand said that the existing employees of the department have been adjusted among all the 31 districts. The designation and the status of officers have also been altered at the district level of the three wings. The District Supply Officer (DSO) at the district level here after would be called DCSO, and Assistant Supply Officer (ASO) would be changed as ACSO.

Similarly, all the inspectors of Legal Metrology at the district-level would hereafter be called District Legal Metrology Officers (DLMO).

Deleted ration cards to be re-issued

Commissioner of Civil Supplies C.V. Anand has directed the officials concerned to stop the exercise of deleting ‘ineligible’ food security cards (ration cards) from the database as it has been found that certain eligible ration cards are also being deleted in the process.

He assured that all the eligible households whose ration cards have been deleted from the database would be re-issued fresh cards and the related database re-activated. In a statement, Mr. Anand said on Sunday that it had come to his notice that certain genuine cards were deleted on the grounds that the beneficiaries did not draw ration for three months or were owning four-wheelers or for being property tax payers for their 50 to 70 square yards houses.

The Commissioner made it clear to the authorities that detailed inquiry had to be carried out if any card had to be eliminated based on reasons amounting to the action. He also asked the households whose genuine cards were eliminated to apply for fresh cards in the circle offices concerned so that necessary action is initiated. About 3,800 cards eliminated in spite of being eligible were re-activated during the last few days, he explained.

The exercise of eliminating bogus/ineligible cards after March this year, since when the distribution of essential commodities had been started through e-PoS machine, had revealed that some households had taken ration/food security cards for the purpose of availing benefits under Aarogyasri and fee reimbursement schemes.

New Rules Come into force

Civil Supplies corporation is taking crucial steps to prevent diversion of PDS Rice. Government is spending 23 rupees per kilo and distributing it to the poor people at just one rupee per kilo through ration dealers.

Till date the enforcement and vigilance teams are registering cases on the ration dealers, active black marketers   who are indulging in diverting PDS rice. But after detailed enquiry  it has been brought to the notice of the CS department that few card holders are also selling the rice at 10/- per kilo in open market. As there are no predefined rules about the action to be initiated against the card holders, the criminals are not getting punished in courts.

Therefore the Telangana Government modified the control order 17(introduced in 2008) by adding clauses D,E which allows to register criminal cases on card holders too.Apart from that ration card will be cancelled and fine will be imposed.The new control order will reduce diversion of PDS rice.

Preview of Change in Millers Attitude

TS Civil Supplies Dept. gets five awards

Various electronic initiatives by the Telangana Civil Supplies Department in procurement and supply have been chosen for ‘Skoch Award’ in five segments, which were given away at the 45 National Skoch Summit at HICC on Thursday.

The five awards were for the EPoS, ePDS, Supply Chain Management, Online Procurement Management System, and grievance redress projects, which were part of the 100 projects chosen countrywide, a press release informed on Thursday.

The EPoS or Electronic Point of Sale system is being implemented in 1,545 fair price shops in the Greater Hyderabad region, which has resulted in 30 per cent savings in the supplies.

ePDS is to register the details of supplies delivered to the shops, while supply chain management rules out the diversion of supplies through online linkage, the note said.

Online procurement management system will ensure payment of minimum support price within 48 hours, while the grievance redress mechanism has been set up as part of the Food Security Act, it informed.

Commissioner, Civil Supplies, C.V. Anand, expressed happiness and said the use of information technology will be extended for curbing irregularities.

Government puts Millers on Notice

Rice millers in the State have been set a deadline of September 30 to supply to Civil Supplies Department 1.81 lakh tonnes of rice worth Rs 482 crore which is yet to be delivered by them as part of custom milling.

The government had procured 23 lakh tonnes of foodgrains from procurement centres in 2015-16 and handed over the stock to millers for custom milling. The millers milled the grains and produced 14 lakh tonnes of rice which was supplied to the government. As much as 1.81 lakh tonnes of rice was still due from them, Civil Supplies Commissioner C.V. Anand was informed by departmental officials at a meeting.

Mr. Anand asked them to take steps to get the stocks by September 30. He also directed cases against millers who defaulted in custom milling. Commissioner addressed letters to Joint Collectors of all districts furnishing names of millers who did not return the rice. He asked them to take steps to get the remaining quantity of rice from millers. 

Call for fresh tenders for super fine rice

The State government has decided to call for fresh tenders for super fine quality rice being supplied to hostels and for mid-day meal scheme to schools.Though the government had called for tenders earlier, the process could not be taken forward as the bidders were not willing to supply the rice for less than Rs 40 a kg. The government is insisting that they supply for Rs 37 a kg. 

According to CV Anand, Commissioner, Civil Supplies there are wide range of varieties of ‘super fine quality rice’ starting from Rs 19 to Rs 55, but it wants best quality at reasonable price, hence it proposes to go for fresh tenders. 

He said the department would give clear specifications to the bidders, so that the quality of rice before and after cooking remains the same. All the players would be invited for discussion and open tenders would be called again.

On the other hand, the department would also set up a ‘Task Force’, consisting of retired senior officials, who would report to the higher officials towards curbing corruption within the department. The officials engaged for quality check would be responsible for the quality of the rice during the process of procurement. They shall also regularly inspect the warehouses and MLS (Mandal Level Stocklist) points, Anand added.

Top Priority to Enhance Transparency in Civil Supplies Department

 Civil Supplies Commissioner C.V.Anand started framing a road map  to deliver services more transparently and efficiently through the department. He conducted a meeting today with the officials and discussed about E-pass system that yielded good results in Greater Hyderabad Limits.

"We would like to replicate the E-Pass System in entire state.We will implement supply chain management system and ensure that the supply and distribution is monitored online.Installation of CCTVs at 172 Mandal Level Stock points, GPS fitted trucks will also reduce diversion, corruption " he said.

Usage  of Information Technology, supply and distribution of PDS rice, kerosene through ration shops and other key issues were reviewed by Mr.Anand in this meeting.

Mr.Anand took charge as Civil Supplies Commissioner

Anand's posting as Civil Supplies Commissioner riles IAS officers

The appointment of senior IPS C.V. Anand as commissioner of civil supplies department has upset IAS officers.Normally, the post of commissioner in non-police departments are held by IAS officers but the TS government started a new trend appointing an IPS officer to head the civil supplies department, triggering off a fresh row between IAS and IPS officers. The Association has sought appointment of Chief Minister  to take up the issue. 

The officers brought to the notice of the CS about the strong resentment being expressed by both junior and senior IAS officers on IPS officers being given priority in administrative jobs. They pointed out that already, IPS officers were being appointed to top jobs in RTC, social welfare residential schools etc., and the latest appointment in civil supplies and proposed appointment of one more IPS officer as transport commissioner was objectionable.

They said that the IPS officers have only regulatory experience and not administrative experience. But how could the IAS lobby jump to such conclusion. IPS officers tend to exhibit regulatory experience only during critical Law and Order Situations, major events.IPS officers also deal with administrative issues in their daily chores.

The CM has decided to appoint Mr Anand as he wants a strict police officer to head the department, which is plagued by diversion of huge quantity of PDS food grains to the black market, bogus ration cards etc. 

In fact, When Anand was holding the post of Cyberabad police commissioner, an investigation team headed by him uncovered a major scam that had taken place in the civil supplies department where in some employees had colluded with the traders to divert huge quantity of subsidised rice alloted to the public distribution system to open market.

C.V.Anand is civil supplies chief

CV Anand, the 1991 batch IPS officer and former Cyberabad police commissioner, was on Tuesday appointed as commissioner, consumer affairs, food & civil supplies department.He was given this posting after his return from foreign countries.

Raidurgam Police Station Revamped

Stay Fit!!

Cyberabad Police Commissioner C.V.Anand advised the police officers and personnel to practice exercises to maintain fitness and health. He inspected the running track under construction at Cyberabad Commissionerate. Later, speaking to the police officers, Anand said that CTC training batch, police officials and gunmen can utilise the running track.Coinciding with the ensuing ‘Haritha Haram’, about 1,200 saplings were planted along the 2.5-km track. 

Anand released a book on "Police Welfare"

Cyberabad Police Commissioner C.V.Anand unveiling  the first copy of book in his office along with association members. 

Glimpse on welfare measures taken by C.V.Anand 

-> Pension Papers on the day of retirement

-> Providing cremation expenditures and arranging a vehicle for the same.

-> Policy bonds for 7000 police personnel 

-> Grievance day on every first saturday to resolve personnel problems.

-> CPS, DA arrears(9 years)  Rs 3 crores settled.

-> Reforms in police co-operative society.

-> Canteen, Mineral water plant in CPO

-> SBH ATM cum CASH deposit machine in CPO

-> Walking track, tennis court and Badminton court in CPO

-> Free medical camps, exclusive passport mela for police personnel and their families.

-> Transparency in transfer, launch of Telegram channel.

Cyberabad Police Honors its Police Officers & Men

The Cyberabad Police recognizes the efforts of officers & Men who performed outstanding work in Crime Prevention, detection, maintenance of public order.  Every quarter, Best police officer & men are identified and are awarded with appreciation letter and cash reward by the Commissioner of Police, Cyberabad. During the 2nd quarter of 2016 (153) police men and officers ((11) Inspectors, (34) SIs/RSIs, (4) ASIs, (21) HCs, (61) PCs, (4) WPCs, (6) Home Guards, (2) Out sourcing and (1) senior Assistant) are identified and rewarded on 10.06.2016 at CP Office with certificates and cash rewards ranging from Rs. 1000/- to Rs. 5000/-.

The best efforts of above officers and men resulted in 20% reduction in over all crime of Cyberabad and also the CCS police recovered property worth 4.88 crores in the 1st quarter.  Because of the great efforts of other wings, the fares, festivals, VIP & VVIP BB Duties, IPL matches during the 1st quarter went off incident free and total peaceful. CP Cyberabad appreciated all the above recipients and rewarded them with appreciation letters and cash rewards.      

Cyberabad Traffic Police introduces ‘Eye worn Cameras’ for the first time in India

Cyberabad police Commissioner C.V.Anand distributing
Eye worn Cameras

Following the introduction of body worn cameras for Traffic officers 2 years ago, the Cyberabad Traffic Police  introduced ‘7 Eye worn cameras’ for its officers. These cameras are worn as Goggles and are fixed to the right of the frame and have the advantage of capturing pictures as they are seen by the eye of the Traffic officer. This is the first time any police force is using eye worn cameras in duty. They are sturdy and have recording facility for both audio & video. With  32 GB internal memory it  can record upto 21 Hours continuously.

 In addition to the 25, additionally 75 Body Worn Cameras have been procured by Cyberabad Police to be used by enforcement officers while working to capture the interaction with public. The footage is also recorded and fed into the PS computers every day. This will supplement the existing Video and digital Cameras. This Camera is worn on the body and will prevent allegations of bad or suspicious behave on part of the Police Officers, apart from keeping a watch on conduct of the 

-> Tabs: Tabs were distributed to all enforcement officers to carry and enforcement without having to use books etc.

-> Kit Bags: Traffic Police in their line of duty are constantly exposed to the elements of weather as well as pollution. While the duty is such that not much option is there to modify the working environment, as effort is being made to mitigate the effect as far as possible by issuing kits containing the following.

Each Kit Bag Contains:
a) SHOE
b) WATER BOTTLE 
c) SUN GLASS
d) NOSE MASK
e) REFLECTIVE JACKET
f) RAIN COAT

All hands together nabbed chain snatchers

Cyberabad Police Commissioner C.V.Anand appreciated the efforts of citizens, patrolling team, homeguard and command control personnel who played an active role in catching two chain snatchers. 

Community involvement in policing is needed for a peaceful society. It also strengthens the relation between police and public and serves as a gateway for effective exchange of information.Rumour mongering, sensitive disputes can be cleared off easily and  police can handle the problems arising out of thin resources more  efficiently.

Five Zonal Clues Teams in Cyberabad

C.V.Anand flagging off  clues team vehicles

TODAY ON.06.06.2016 SRI.C.V. ANAND IPS, COMMISSIONER OF POLICE, CYBERABAD INAUGRATED FIVE ZONAL CLUES TEAMS. 

The five Zonal Clues Teams in Cyberabad are created to respond faster to the calls from the Police Stations and reaching the crime scenes immediately to prevent the damage of physical evidence and left them for assisting in investigation work.

OBJECTIVES: 

1. To reach the crime scene faster by responding to calls from Police Stations  

    Across Cyberabad in the shortest time.

2. To divide the work among various Zonal teams and prevent wastage of time.

3. For better and efficient management of staff and resources.

4. Collect the physical evidence without being disturbed.

TEAM PARTICULARS:

Each Zonal Clues Team comprises of (02) PCs, (02) HGs & (02) Drivers with a four wheeler vehicles, out of which a PC, HG & Driver will work on a (24) hours shift. The teams have undergone one-week training at TSFSL in the various divisions for preservation, gathering & shifting to the laboratory the various material objects of biological, serological, toxic ballistic, physical & documentary evidence encountered in various crime scenes. They are also issued kits used for handling all kinds of material evidence which are latest in technology. The teams also underwent training in developing, lifting and photography of latent finger prints along with the crime scene reconstruction.

FUNCTIONS:

(1) Preservation of crime scene.

(2) Recording of the crime scene using videography and photography by using   

       Modern technology.

(3) Developing, photography and lifting of latent finger prints in crime scene

(4) Collection, packing and shifting material objects (maintaining proper chain

      of custody) to the laboratory for analysis, there by helping the investigating   

      Police in detection and conviction of cases.                

Farewell to retired officers

Retired Officers marking their farewell with Commissioner C.V.Anand

Cyberabad Police Commissioner C.V.Anand felicitated retired Police Officers with Rs 15,000/- each from Police employee benefit fund & Co-operative credit Society, Cyberabad and handed over Pension papers to them.

The details of the retired officers are mentioned below 

Sl.No	Name	Rank	Place of Working
1	Sri Rangam	SI	LB Nagar PS
2	J.Mallaiah	SI	CSB
3	M.Yadaiah	ARSI	CSW
4	O.Danaiah	AR HC 1440	CAR Cyberabad
5	M.Hanmanth RAo	HC 1839	Rajendranagar PS
6	G.Devadanam Devid	HC 2108	RGIA Traffic
7	K.Gundappa	HC 1787	Shamirpet
8	Maniyamma	Sweeper	Balanagar PS (VRS on medical invalidation)

Sl.No

Name

Rank

Place of Working

1

Sri Rangam

SI

LB Nagar PS

2

J.Mallaiah

SI

CSB

3

M.Yadaiah

ARSI

CSW

4

O.Danaiah

AR HC 1440

CAR Cyberabad

5

M.Hanmanth RAo

HC 1839

Rajendranagar PS

6

G.Devadanam Devid

HC 2108

RGIA Traffic

7

K.Gundappa

HC 1787

Shamirpet

8

Maniyamma

Sweeper

Balanagar PS (VRS on medical invalidation)

CCTV project inaugurated in Cyberabad commissionerate

Telangana DGP today inaugurated the first-of-its-kind CCTV project police station on the premises of Cyberabad Police commissionerate.           

So far, 450 CCTV cameras were installed in 44 police stations, ACP and DCP offices under Cyberabad Commissionerate at a cost of Rs 1.46 crore to watch various vital areas with viewing facility in the concerned SHOs’ rooms or GD writers’ rooms. For the first time, IP based cameras, ranging from 5 to 12 in each of the 44 law and order police stations in Cyberbad have been installed. Each camera is 2 mega pixel, IP, IR with 30 days storage facility. These cameras can be logged into and viewed from the Central Command and Control centre in Gachibowli and goings on in each police station could be watched. The DCPs and ACPs can also watch what was happening in their jurisdictional police stations.

The DGP also inaugurated the Rs 2 crore Video conferencing facility for Cyberabad for 126 locations, including CP, Jt CP to all police stations, Traffic Police stations, ACPs/DCPs and other wings like CCS, SOT, CSW. This is an internet-based Conferencing Facility and the NIC has provided software free of cost. This will prove very beneficial to police officers, including CP, Jt CP, DCPs and ACPs to conduct meetings, reviews, briefings, presentations, trainings and so on to their desired groups without having to summon them frequently over the vast jurisdiction of Cyberabad Police Commissionerate. 

Cyberabad Police Honours its ‘Good Citizens’

   

The Cyberabad Police had started the practice of recognizing the efforts of public and citizens whenever they went out of their way to help policing, catch criminals, maintain peace and order, or give vital information.  Every quarterly, such ‘Good Citizens’ are identified and are awarded a ‘Good Citizen Certificate’ and a cash reward of Rs.1,000/- by the Commissioner of Police, Cyberabad. This is part of an effort to involve the community in policing.     

This time, 9 citizens were listed out, who in various ways, helped Cyberabad Police. Cyberabad Police Commissioner C.V.Anand appreciated them and presented cash rewards, good citizen certificates.

C.V.Anand reviews SCSC functioning

The bi-monthly Executive Committee (EC) meeting of Society for Cyberabad Security Council (SCSC) that was held on 17th May 2016 at Infosys, Gachibowli, rolled out to be a great success in taking decisions for the future implementation of plans for the Society.

The meeting was presided by honourable chairman for SCSC Shri. C.V. Anand, IPS and the bi-monthly (EC) report of the Society was presented by  the secretary for SCSC which included the revenue details and activity scale ups in the last two months. The forum leaders presented the initiatives of their respective forums in the last two months and the forthcoming events were discussed to gain more direction and inputs. The EC members welcomed the new Treasurer and Associate Director of SCSC. 

Speaking on the occasion, the honourable Chairman Shri. C.V. Anand appreciated SCSC for its efforts in installing 150 CCTV Cameras in and around the IT Corridor, which has in the past and continues to be a key resource in helping the law enforcement agencies.Mr.Anand praised the success of the She Shuttle busses, in promoting a safer commute. He also praised SCSC for the wide variety of activities and initiatives it has taken up over the years and encouraged new blood to take SCSC further in their endeavours and addressed the committee to play an active role in furthering all the initiatives of the Society.

During the bi-monthly report presentation the secretary for the societyhighlighted the success story of the SHE-Shuttle. 

The launch of She Safe App, a Pilot initiative by SCSC, has immense potential in promoting women safety and is another jewel in SCSC's crown. 

The benefits of SHE-Safe App are: 

• Call to Police even when there is no cellular connection, in case of emergency

• Dedicated Control Desk by Cyberabad Police – When there is a panic alarm, Panic Location as well as the User Track through-out are seen by the Police

• WhatsApp messenger to chat with the respective Cyberabad/Hyderabad Police WhatsApp desks, as additional communication mechanism during emergency

•  SMS to Family & Friends with the track URL, for proactive tracking

The detailed Audit report was also one of the main agenda in the meeting and the EC reviewed 2015-16 financials and approved its expenses and finally concluded with the release of the 5th edition of Cyber-Shield- the Newsletter.