The Chief Secretary of Nagaland, J Alam, IAS stated that State Government Departments should work towards bringing public services online which will save time and bring about ease of doing business for both Government offices and citizens of the State and enhance transparency and accountability in the working system. Alam said this while addressing the Departmental Review meeting of Food & Civil Supplies and Land Records and Survey at the Chief Secretary’s Conference Hall, Kohima on 27th May 2022.
Chief Secretary Alam stated that with the State Government banning all check gates in the State, prices of essential commodities should come down and directed the Department of F&CS to monitor the situation.
Director F&Cs V Lovitoly Sema while giving a power point presentation on the activities taken by the Department stated that the Department has been implementing various welfare schemes and programmes of the State and Central Governments across Nagaland.
Sema also stated that the Grievance Redressal Mechanism was in place and the Department was conducting Social Audits and maintaining Grievance Redressal System. She also added that one could check the details of NFSA Ration Card, Allocation , Supply Chain, Online Sales and Other services (such as “Know Your Ration Entitlement”) at https://feast.nagaland.gov.in/ while details of foodgrains transaction under “One Nation One Ration Card” (ONORC) i.e. Implementation of Ration Card portability “One Nation One RATION Card” could be found at http://www.impds.nic.in/portal.
The Director also informed Nagaland was the 1st State in the North East to launch the sale of 5Kg FTL Cylinder through FPS with the assistance of IOCL and added that Cylinder is available in 78 FPSs under Dimapur Sadar and the same will be rolled out in other districts in phase-wise manner. She further stated that the department has completed 100% online allocation, 100% Supply Chain Management i.e. generation of indent to FCI for Lifting of Foodgrains till the distribution of foodgrains at Fair Price Shop Level using ePoS Devices, 95.06% Aadhaar seeding Status as on 1st March 2022 for the NFSA Ration Card.
Chief Secretary Alam said that due credit must be given to the Food & Civil Supplies Department for successfully seeding 95.06% of Aadhaar Status for the NFSA Ration Card holders. With the availability of a robust Grievance Redressal and Social Audit mechanisms, all complains should be taken up on priority basis.
The Department of Land Records and Survey in their presentation stated that the Department is in the process of creating a Record of Rights from their level as well as digitize all existing maps and upload it online to enable the public to access their land records. The Department was advised to rollout an online single window system for land transactions for the benefit of the citizens.
(Akummeren, IA)
