A new software will be developed to plug leakages in the supply of kerosene being provided to the poor through fair price shops in the State. The National Informatics Centre (NIC) has been instructed to develop the software by the Telangana state civil supplies department.
The announcement was made by civil supplies commissioner CV Anand on Wednesday after speaking to representatives of the oil companies and wholesale kerosene dealers as well.
Anand pointed out that there was no proper coordination among oil company authorities and wholesale dealers which were causing delays in lifting and supply of kerosene. The commissioner stressed the need for measures to sort out delays in supply to Fair Price (FP) shop dealers.
To curtail diversion of kerosene and to sort out the problems in the existing system, the commissioner has instructed the NIC authorities to develop the software under which the entire allocation to wholesale dealers and fair price shop dealers till the shop level to be done through online only.
At present, the allocation, lifting and distribution of rice, sugar and other commodities except kerosene is exclusively being done online in the ePDS application. All the concerned officers should bring kerosene into the ambit of the ePDS application as well, Anand said. This is to ensure that kerosene is supplied to all card holders from the start of the month to 15 of the same month.
He asked the representatives of dealers not to commit irregularities in the process of supply otherwise stringent action would be taken against violators. He informed that there were several complaints on diversion of kerosene and that GPS devices are being installed to kerosene tankers. The commissioner also assured the dealers that their grievances will be addressed but subject to the condition that they do not indulge in irregularities.
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