The Civil Supplies Department of Telangana has launched a mobile app, T-Ration, for providing better services to the families having household supply or ration (food security) cards for drawing various commodities supplied by the government at subsidised prices.
Minister for Finance and Civil Supplies E. Rajender launched the android-based app developed by National Informatics Centre (NIC) here on Friday. Commissioner of Civil Supplies C.V. Anand stated that a Telugu version of the app was also being developed by the department with the help of NIC and it would be made available to users soon.
Explaining the features of the mobile app, the Commissioner stated that it would offer 7 G2C (Government to Citizen) and 13 G2G (Government to Government) services.
Apart from allocation of commodities to a particular ration card, ration card search, ration shop location, allocation of commodities to a ration shop, current stock at ration shop and ration card transactions, it would also provide information on the department's services linked to Mee Seva services.
Ration shop number, dealer’s name, address, mobile phone number, stock position of commodities and whether a particular shops is open or closed could also be know with the help of the app, Mr. Anand said, adding that information on live e-PoS sales would be available to the officials of the department among status on 12 other aspects related to department’s functions.
Speaking on the occasion, the Minister requested people to surrender ration cards if they have taken them for purposes like Aarogyasri health cards, as address proof, and for college fee reimbursement scheme. He stated that ration cards were no more useful for availing such benefits and only those families which would consume/use the commodities supplied by the government should have ration ration cards.
Stating that the department had undergone a sea change in the recent past, the Minister said the position in stock points/godowns could be known live from the command control centre set up in the Commissioner’s office with the help of the closed-circuit cameras installed there. He complimented the department for procuring ₹8,000 crore worth paddy last year after bumper harvest in the State without any glitch.
