The Telangana government’s prestigious ePOS (Electronic Point of Sale) system introduced to remove malpractices in public distribution system is gaining good results. The ePOS system received huge response as it benefited beneficiaries and also government. Till now (Thursday, 04.10.2018) more than 10 crores transactions are done through this system in Telangana state wide.
The Telangana government introduced this system on pilot project basis in 2016 March at 1545 ration shops in Greater Hyderabad region to check irregularities and for smooth distribution of ration commodities to eligible beneficiaries. After successful result this system was implemented state wide. Earlier this year on 1st March ePOS was implemented in 17,027 ration shops state wide. With introduction of this system not only eligible beneficiaries get their commodities without any difficulty, government also saved up to 10 to 15 per cent of commodities. The Commodities distribution with biometric system helped reduction in irregularities. The Difference in weight, depreciation in commodities has been stopped. Distribution is done very transparently. Total of 85 lakh families avail ration state wide. State government supplies 1.75 lakh metric tons of rice to meet the requirement. To make sure that this rice reaches to beneficiaries Telangana Civil Supplies Department introduced bio-metric systems in all the ration shops.
From 2016 March to 4th October, 2018 more than 10 crores ePOS transactions had been done. Highest number of ePOS transaction were done in districts of Hyderabad 1.57 cr, Ranga Reddy 1.10 cr, Medchal 78.77 lakhs, Mahabubnagar 50.78 lakhs, Sangareddy 44.33 lakhs, Nizamabad 39.59 lakhs, etc. total of 10,01,11,544 transactions were done.
The Civil Supplies Department officials were very cheerful as they reached another milestone on completion of 10 crore mark. They said this milestone was achieved with National Informatics Centre cooperation. With introduction of ePOS biometric system state wide portability has been implemented. State wide 2.75 crore beneficiaries can get their ration from anywhere in the state.
