Ration from anywhere gets huge success in Telangana:C V Anand

Commissioner for Civil Supplies C.V. Anand has said Statewide portability has received huge response from the card-holders which is beyond their expectations. “We are very happy that more than five lakh transactions were done through portability State-wide in a span of just ten days after the implementation on April 1. The policy is very helpful to the people, who migrate to urban areas in search of work. The number of transactions in Hyderabad, Ranga Reddy, Medchal was clear evidence of the tremendous success”, the Commissioner said.

The policy has brought revolutionary changes in public distribution system, he said. “Now the situation is different, previously cardholders used to wait for the commodities, but now the dealers are waiting for the beneficiaries to take commodities. Dealers are competing for providing better services to the card holders. All measures are been taken prevent technical problems. Every shop is allocated 15 to 20% extra stock for the portability transactions. Keeping view that in Hyderabad there are more number of card holders and portability transactions ration shops will supply commodities to the beneficiaries from 1st to 20th of every



month. 

In other districts, it will be completed by 15th of every month”, he added.

In a statement here today, C.V Anand said the Civil Supplies Department’s efforts worked. Ration from anywhere (Portability) gained huge success. The number of card-holders, who took commodities by portability was in lakhs, he said. In Telangana , 2.75 crore beneficiaries were benefitted with this scheme and the policy has turned as a gift to the poor people. Till now, from 1st to 10th in 10 days… out of 17,023 ration shops all over the State, transactions were done in 13,082 shops and 5,44,378 people have taken ration. Hyderabad recorded highest transactions of 1,16,632; followed by Medchal 83,057; Ranga Reddy 43,381; Nizamabd 29,252 and Warangal 28,944.

After EpoS came into implementation 12 to 15% of beneficiaries are not taking ration commodities, i.e. every month near about 70 to 75 lakh families are taking ration. Out of 85 lakh families, 52.57 lakh have (71%) have already taken their ration in this month. In Hyderabad only, more than one lakh portability transactions are done.