-The Hindu
Delhi Food and Supply Minister Haroon Yusuf on Wednesday launched the Electronic Public Distribution System (e-PDS) from a newly-constructed building for Circle Office of Food and Supplies Department at Gandhi Nagar in East Delhi.
The Minister said the e-PDS system will reduce complaints of divergence and other corrupt practices. With the launch of this system, he said consumers would be able to get online information regarding their ration shops, availability of food grains and distribution of essential commodities.
Besides, Mr. Yusuf said the consumers would also get to know the status of ration cards and number of registered card holders through this system. “Electronic PDS will certainly end the corruption in the public distribution system. A minimum of 1,000 ration card holders can get registered from every PDS shop now,” he added.
Delhi Education and Transport Minister Arvinder Singh Lovely, who was also present at the inauguration of the system and the building, said e-PDS would improve the Public Distribution System by bringing more transparency in the supply chain management. “Consumers of East Delhi would be able to get ration cards from the new state of art and modern circle office of Food and Supply Department,” he added.