Friday, September 21, 2012

Digitised PDS cards in offing soon in Balangir FRIDAY, 21 SEPTEMBER 2012 22:50 PNS | BALANGIR


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FRIDAY, 21 SEPTEMBER 2012 22:50
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The days of old ration cards are numbered with the process of introduction of digitised PDS (public distribution system) cards in Balangr block of the district being underway to ensure transparency, check manipulations and to ensure PDS entitlements of people.
People of the 23 gram panchayats of Balangir block are to get their first-ever digital PDS cards as part of the digitisation process on a pilot basis.
A campaign for the purpose was launched in August in all the 23 panchayats of the block. All the eligible people were covered under the scheme, and photographs of the beneficiaries were taken. Meanwhile, a total of 27,571 persons have been photographed and 23,470 accounts have been opened in banks and post offices.
This digitisation process would go a long way in checking corruption in the PDS, besides ensuring entitlements of the people,” said AC Sahu of the Balangir unit of the Odisha Modernising Economy, Government and Administra
tion (OMEGA).
Another major advantage of the digitised PDS card is that it can be easily updated with information like addition of new member due to birth and its deletion due to death in a family which was a time-consuming process in case of the earlier traditional ration card.
Moreover with the prevalence of the digitised card, each family is sure to get its PDS entitlements and the scope of manipulations would not be possible with online records, said District Support Officer of OMEGA Debendra Bedbag. From November this year, the old cards would cease to be in use.  Meanwhile, the validations process is going on in the area to check whether correct data have been entered in the cards or changes are needed to make the exercise final. The final digitised cards will first be distributed on October 2 in Tusurabahal GP of Balangir block.

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