Anand inspects paddy purchase centers in four districts

Civil Supplies Commissioner C.V. Anand today made a surprise visit to check Rabi season paddy purchase centers in four districts — Yadadri, Janagaon, Warangal Urban, Warangal Rural. He enquired about the conditions and problems in the paddy purchase centers with concerned district officials and farmers. 

He said that strict action would be taken against officials concerned, if any irregularity was found in gunny bags used for carrying paddy and other supplies.

“Gunny bags are carried to agriculture fields and other places, and several complaints have come to my notice mainly in Paddy Purchase Centers under Primary Agriculture Cooperation Societies (PACS) in Warangal and Jangaon areas,” he said.

Anand, who extensively toured four districts- Bhupalpally, Peddapalli, Karimnagar, and Jagtial, on Friday and held review meetings with Collectors, Joint Collectors, FCI, Civil Supplies Department, and marketing officials.

He warned the officials that if gunny bags were not utilised according to the norms, those found guilty would be blacklisted and criminal cases would booked against them.

The Commissioner visited parboiled rice mills in Dhanwad village in Kataram Mandal of Jayashanker Bhupalapally and Peddapalli districts, and inspected Paddy Purchase Centers in Durshed village of Karimnagar.

Paddy output beyond expectations in Telangana

Paddy purchase during Rabi season in Telangana is very high as production has exceeded the expectation like never before in the state, said Mr.C.V.Anand, Commissioner, Civil supplies, here today. 

More than 25.95 Lakh Metric Tons of paddy has been purchased till now , which is 18.65 LMTs more than the last year Rabi season, the Commissioner said in a release here. 

The department also procured record scale with Minimum Support price from the farmers, he said. 

According to fresh estimates, till now the production reached 42.44 LMT, exceeding the expectation of 37 LMT.In 2015-16, 7,28,829 metric tons of paddy was purchased from 1,51,950 farmers through 1262 purchase centers in Rabi season. 

Special focus by officials, especially by Joint Collectors was set on purchase of paddy and transport from ground level. Mr Anand said there is no shortage of gunny bags as 9.25 crore bags were available. 

As per the demand of about one crore bags are already in position at district godowns while another 30 lakh bags required will be given before the allotted bags are used. 

All the details of paddy procurement from farmers are entered in the website, and the bills are been cleared. 
Amount is transferred online to farmer bank accounts, he added

Telangana Chief Minister Appreciates C.V.Anand

At the inaugural address of the statewide police conference #Telangana #Chief Minister paid special compliments to Civil Supplies commissioner Mr.C.V.Anand.,IPS for saving Rs 850 crore for the Government. He praised Anand for his dedicated effort and said that if right people were in right positions, results will come in this way.

Enforcement teams in CS dept yielding good results

Specially constituted enforcement teams from the Civil Supplies Department conducted raids on fair price shops of 179 areas in various districts over three months and seized large quantities of rice and paddy meant for public distribution. Between February and April, the Enforcement wing had seized 3,507 quintals of PDS rice and 937 quintals of custom milled paddy, besides sugar,LPG cylinders and kerosene.

Civil Supplies Commissioner C.V. Anand said the department had arrested illegal transportation of superfine rice and rationed rice valued at Rs. 3.16 crore.Nine criminal cases were filed against the errant, apart from 56 other cases.

The teams were formed with retired police officers and officials from Revenue, Commercial Taxes and Civil Supplies departments.C.V.Anand stated that the enforcement task force teams set up with retired police officers to check malpractices and corruption in distribution of essential commodities under PDS were proving extremely helpful. 

He said frequent raids also showed growth in the performance of mandal-level stock points(godowns) and ration shops.Strict measures at the state border have resulted in decrease in the illegal supply of PDS rice to other states, he said.

The department appointed an enforcement wing with five teams of 20 members each.Civil Supplies and Legal Metrology depts., conducted raids on the petrol/diesel filling stations across the State, only two cases were registered for short filling.

Special drive to check benami ration dealers

After introducing reforms in almost all aspects of functioning, right from rice millers to milling units, transportation, storage and the like, the Civil Supplies Department has embarked on reforming the Fair Price (FP) shops. The Civil Supplies Department has been keeping surveillance on benami ration dealers to check black-marketing in public distribution scheme.

The department has started to identify benami dealers in Greater Hyderabad Zone as business has been conducted by unauthorised dealers for several years. Efforts were being taken to make cashless transactions in all FP shops, Civil Supplies Commissioner C V Anand said. The Commissioner held a meeting on Thursday in Civil Supplies Bhavan with DCSOs, ACSOs, Enforcement officials of Hyderabad, Ranga Reddy and Medchal districts in Greater Hyderabad Zone to review performance of ration shops. 

As per the directions of Chief Minister, measures were being taken to see that commodities reached the needy and eligible sections of the society through Fair Price shops, Anand said.Officials came to know that some FP shops were run by benamis and some are being run by unauthorised people, who are not related to license holders. It has come to the notice of the officials that some dealers have five to 20 shops in their hands. By introducing ePOS system in Greater Hyderabad, the department managed to save up to Rs 280 crore.

 Still, some benami dealers are continuing their business, the Commissioner said and instructed officials to use technology and conduct ground level raids to spot these benamis.Officials found 179 shops out of 1,545 in Greater Hyderabad are not performing either due to some 6A cases, death of dealer or on leave. Transferring dealership to another dealer is creating difficulties to the beneficiaries. Instructions will be passed to all the FP shops dealers to conduct business within the allotted time. 

The Commissioner passed orders to officials that steps should be taken to rationalise all cards in ration shops and notices should be issued to the dealers who are on long leave. Ration cards should be cancelled if beneficiary is not taking commodities for the past six month. The Commissioner issued action plan to eliminate benami Dealers.

All FP shops should be inspected by concerned area inspectors of all ACSO circle offices and the inspector should verify FP shop Form B license which was issued to the authorised dealer and to verify whether he/she is conducting the FP shop business. Later, the officials of DCSO office will cross check the authorisations issued to dealers, which were with the DCSO office. This work will be completed within ten days positively

Telangana cautions officials on security of Aadhaar data

The civil supplies department has swung into action to protect the confidentiality of Aadhaar data after the Centre alerted all state governments of possible leakage as has occurred in some parts of the country.

Commissioner of civil supplies C.V. Anand alerted officials of his department on the necessity of keeping Aadhaar data a secret.He said that it was the responsibility of every employee not to disclose the demographic as well as other information collected from the beneficiaries at the time of issuance of ration cards.

If the data was still on display at any place such as online sites, he told them to withdraw it immediately. It was in this manner that the leaks occurred. Mr Anand was addressing a review meeting with officials of the IT wing of his department and National Informatics Centre, on Sunday. This meeting was called after the Centre and Unique Identification Authority of India wrote to the state government about protecting the confidentiality of Aadhaar data.

Mr Anand said any act of publishing identity or information like Aadhaar number and demographic details along with personal sensitive information such as bank details, in contravention of the Aadhaar Act 2016, and the Information Technology Act 2000, must be refrained from with immediate effect.

Under various provisions of the Aadhaar Act 2016, inter-alia 29(2), 29(3), 29(4), publishing Aadhaar number or other demographic information is not allowed and such action constitutes an offence under sections 37, 40 & 41, which is punishable with imprisonment of up to three years.

Contravening these provisions in these laws by any employee, including outsourcing and contract employees, will make the violator liable to pay damages by way of compensation to persons affected, Mr Anand warned.

The commissioner said that biometric information of Aadhaar holders collected for authentication should not be stored in unprotected endpoint devices such as PCs, laptops, smart phones, etc.

Instructions to government staff

 -> Do not disclose any Aadhaar related information
      to any external or unauthorised agency or 
      individual or entity.
-> Do not locate servers or other IT storage system 
    or devices having Aadhaar data outside of locked
    and fully secured rooms.
 -> Do not let unauthorised people to access stored
      Aadhaar data
 -> Do not share authentication license key with any
      other entity

J&K Minister praises Telangana CS initiatives

Jammu & Kashmir Minister for Civil Supplies, visited the Command Control Centre in Civil Supplies Bhavan and said a similar centre would be established in his home State to control the diversion of PDS Stocks. The Minister was in the city on a one-day visit. 

The Minister observed the movement of trucks fitted with GPS devises transporting PDS stocks on live feed. He also saw the CCTVs installed at a godown in Hyderabad on experimental basis. He appreciated the installation of GPS devices in transport vehicles and the installation of CCTVs in godowns. 

The Minister said the Telangana State Civil Supplies Department stands as a role model for other States in establishing Command Control Centre. 

The same system will be implemented in Jammu & Kashmir as early as possible. C V Anand, Commissioner (CS) said diversion of PDS stocks was stooped to a great extent after establishment of Command Control Centre and CCTVs will soon be installed in all the other godowns of the State. 

Commissioner had also explained the instances on how Command Control Centre detected diversion of PDS rice through two-wheelers with the help of CCTVs.