The Hindu Business Line : Details display made mandatory for PDS vehicles

The Department of Food and Public Distribution made it mandatory for vehicles carrying commodities for public distribution, from centralised godowns to the fair price shops of various States and Union Territories, to display details about the items they are carrying.

Trucks and vehicles, which do not display banners containing the above information will be returned without load by Food Corporation of India and Central Warehousing Corporation.

The order would come into effect from December 1. The move is aimed at checking leakages in the public distribution system (PDS) operations.

The details have to be displayed prominently in the windshield as well as the rear end. Trucks and vehicles are required to display — on PDS Ration Duty — followed by the destination of the vehicle, commodity being carried and agent's name, said an official release.

There have been several instances of foodgrains loaded on to trucks in FCI godowns by State Agencies being diverted to the open market. The move is aimed at "minimising diversion and leakage of foodgrains, so that foodgrains issued under the targeted PDS reach the targeted beneficiaries," added the release.

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