GPS to monitor PDS goods: Alappuzha to be first in the State

State’s first Global Positioning System to track the goods of Public Distribution System will be launched on an experimental basis at Alappuzha. The District Collector, P. Venugopal urged it as a move to check black marketeering and hoarding widely prevalent in the existing system.

On a trial basis the system will be commissioned in Cherthala and Chengannur taluks and depending on its success will be extended to the other four taluks in the district. The National Informatics Centre will develop a software to interlink all the ration shops in the district, thereby detecting the movement of essential goods from the FCI godowns to these shops. The ration shops will be sought to make the stock monitoring system fully successful, the sources said.

Currently, Meghalaya, Orissa and Chhattisgarh have successfully employed the Global Positioning System into their PDS and the officials there are of the opinion that, this was an effective way to control black marketeering and hoarding in the states.

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