New Delhi, July 6 (ANI): Minister of Consumer Affairs, Food and Public Distribution Prof. K. V. Thomas has directed senior officials of his ministry to undertake tours of states within next two-three weeks to review the status of off take of foodgrains allocated to Public Distribution System (PDS).
All officers of the rank of Additional Secretary and Joint Secretary have been allocated specific states and asked to review district wise offtake of allocation of foodgrains during their visits and ensure that over all offtake position is improved immediately.
The officials have also been directed to inspect distribution centres and to see that PDS foodgrains are easily available in all the part of the States.
During these special tours, the officials will also inspect godowns of FCI and other procurement agencies to review the storage management so that the quality control is maintained at any cost.
T.S.Randhawa, Addl.Secretary in the ministry will visit Maharashtra, Gujarat and Goa while C.Viswanath, Joint Secretary, will visit Punjab, Haryana and Delhi. Girish Shankar, Joint Secretary will undertake tour of Jharkhand, Orissa, Bihar and West Bengal while Shri T.Jacob, Joint Secretary will visit Andhra Pradesh, Karnataka, Tamil Nadu and Kerala.
Dr. D.K. Bhalla, Joint Secretary has been asked to undertake tour of Arunachal Pradesh, Assam, Manipur, Meghalaya, Mizoram, Nagaland and Tripura while Naveen Prakash, Joint Secretary will visit Uttar Pradesh, Madhya Pradesh, Chhattisgarh and Rajasthan. Ravneet Kaur, Joint Secretary will tour Jammu and Kashmir, Himachal Pradesh and Uttarakhand. (ANI)
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