Civil Supplies

ADMINISTRATIVE SET UP

The District Office of Telangana State Civil Supplies Corporation, MEDCHAL MALKAJGIRI is headed by District Manager, assisted by Assistant Manager, and supporting staff. The Joint Collector is the Ex. Officio & Executive Director on behalf of Telangana State Civil Supplies Corporation in the District.

The District Office, Medchal is maintaining 6 Mandal Level Stockiest points (MLS P’s) in the district for distributing all the PDS Commodities to 636 FP Shops and other welfare schemes to Government SC, ST & BC Hostels / Sub-Jails and other welfare Institutions

PRESENTLY,THE CIVIL SUPPLIES CORPORATION IS ENGAGED IN THE FOLLOWING ACTIVITIES:

• As the Nodal Agency of the State Government to purchase, transport, storage, handling and distribution of rice, sugar, wheat under Public Distribution System as per allotment.

• Distribution of rice under various welfare schemes viz., PDS, AAY, AP, Hostel, Mid-Day-Meal Scheme, WBNP, ICDS etc. .
• Distribution of other Commodities i.e. Sugar and Wheat
• Purchase paddy under Minimum Support Price Operations to ensure MSP to farmers, custom milling thereon and deliver to CSC/FCI.

PROGRESS OF SCHEMES

• Public Distribution System:
• Telangana State Civil Supplies Corporation Ltd. is a State Agency appointed by the State Government for distribution of rice under PDS along with other essential commodities and purchase of paddy on MSP. It is the responsibility of the Corporation to undertake transportation, storage and delivery of the stocks under PDS at the door steps of the Fair Price Shop Dealers.

SUPPLY OF ESSENTIAL COMMODITIES UNDER PDS

The Corporation has been distributing various essential commodities under PDS to the BPL card-holders of Telangana state under various schemes. Details of commodities issued under PDS are as follows:

• Rice::
  Rice is being supplied under PDS through various schemes like NFSA schemes and other welfare schemes.
• RICE UNDER NFSA SCHEMES:
• TSCSCL has been supplying rice under various NFSA schemes like Priority, Antyodaya Anna Yojana (AAY), etc. As per instructions of State Govt, TSCSCL has been releasing rice under PDS @ 6 Kgs per head without any limit on number of members in a family.

RICE UNDER WBNP – SCHEMES:

• Rice is being released a Qty of 45.585 Mts per month to 793 anganwadi centers (3 ICDS Projects) of Women Development & Child Welfare Department @ Rs.4.82 per Kg under WBNP Scheme.

MID DAY MEALS SCHEME:

• Mid day meals (MDM) Scheme is a scheme to provide meals to Primary and upper primary school children under Central Government Scheme and to IX & X Class children under state Government Scheme. Rice(Sannabiyyam) under MDM scheme is released free of cost to school education department by Civil Supplies Corporation.
• From 1st January’ 2015 onwards preferred varieties of Rice (Sanna Biyyam) is procuring and released to the Schools under Mid Day Meals Scheme in the State as per instructions of Telangana state Govt
• In Medchal District a Quantity of 151.798 Mts per (strength 89215) month of Sannabiyyam is being released to 637 schools.

WELFARE HOSTELS & OTHER INSTITUTIONS :

• From 1^st January’ 2015 onwards preferred varieties of Rice (Sanna Biyyam) is procuring and released to welfare hostels (SC/ST/OBC) and other welfare institutions @ Re.1/- per Kg as per GOI instructions.
• In Medchal District a Quantity of 182.824 Mts per (strength 18278) month of Sannabiyyam is being released to 78 institutions.

Sannabiyyam Supplied to Jails:

• In Medchal District a Quantity of 70.278 Mts per month of Sannabiyyam is being released to prisons.

TRANSPORTATION OF ESSENTIAL COMMODITIES

• There are two stages in transportation of PDS commodities for delivery of stocks to the door steps of the Fair Price Shop Dealers. Transportation from FCI godowns/buffer godowns to MLS Points is known as Stage-I transportation and transportation from MLS Points to Fair Price Shops is known as Stage-II transportation.
• District-wise Stage – I Transport Contractors are appointed at Head Office through e-tenders on e-procurement platform for transportation of food grains from FCI godowns/buffer godowns to MLS Points.
• Stage – II Transport Contractors are appointed at District Level through Tender Process by District tender committee with due approval of VC & Managing Director.
• MDM Rice is being transported by stage II tr-contractors upto School points.

PADDY PROCUREMENT UNDER MSP-OPERATIONS

• The main objective of procurement of paddy is to protect the farmer community from distress sale under Minimum Support Price (MSP) declared by GOI. Paddy is procured in two seasons i.e. Khariff (1st October to 31st March) & Rabi (1st April to 30th September) on demand.
  • The State Government has entrusted the purchase of paddy to Civil Supplies Corporation as a Nodal Agency from the KMS 2000-01.From KMS 2006-07, the CSC has taken up the procurement of paddy with the help of women Self Help Groups (SHGs) of IKP, PACS, ITDA, DCMS in all paddy growing districts by opening PPCs nearer to paddy production areas to facilitate farmers to sell their
  • Produce at village level. TSCSCL is paying commission fixed by GOI to the procuring agencies.
• The required infrastructure such as paddy cleaners, moisture meters, weighing scales with weights, calipers, tarpaulins, winnowing machines, polythene covers, etc. for purchase of paddy at PPCs is provided by Marketing Department.
• The gunnies are being positioned in all the paddy procuring districts by TSCSCL well in advance as per seasonal requirement. Gunnies are purchased through Jute Commissioner, Kolkata which is GOI institution having control upon the entire Jute Gunnies Manufacturing Industry in India.
• OPMS (Online Paddy Procurement Software) package was developed for capturing real time data on paddy procurement operations from KMS 2015-16.
• Farmer payments are mandatorily being made online directly into farmer bank accounts.
• The paddy procured is shifted to designated rice mills for immediate custom milling through authorized district-wise paddy transport contractors appointed by District Tender Committee headed by Joint Collector.
• Paddy delivered to mills is kept under the Joint Custody of miller and local officer appointed by Joint Collector for safety of stocks.
• The Rice miller will deliver the custom milled raw rice & boiled rice at 67% & 68 % respectively. The milling charges will be paid to rice millers accordingly.
• TSCSCL forwards claims to FCI for custom milled rice delivered to FCI under central pool either Raw or boiled rice as per provisional rates of CMR communicated by GOI for realization of amount.

SUCCESS STORIES

• Installation of GPS devices and CC Cameras in MLS Points:
• GPS vehicle tracking system has been introduced in TSCSCL to track the movement of vehicles transporting PDS commodities under Stage-I & Stage-II by installing GPS tracking devices to the dedicated vehicles used in Stage-I and Stage-II transportation.
• The details of GPS devices installed in the Stage-I transportation and Stage-II transportation vehicles are as follows:

• For transparency in distribution of essential commodities to public all the MLS points in the district are installed with CC cameras and the MLS Point wise list is as follows.

ENFORCEMENT

• Various Control Orders for licensing dealers in various essential commodities like food grains, petroleum products, pulses, edible oils etc. both under the PDS and in open market for maintaining stock limits for preventing hoarding, blackmarketing and maintenance of supplies of essential commodities without any scarcity have been issued under the Essential Commodities Act, 1955.
• The enforcement official’s viz. right from the UDRI to the Collector inspect the business premises to ensure that there is no hoarding, black-marketing, diversion etc., seizure of the stocks is effected and to file cases under the relevant Control Order for confiscation the stock and also cancellation of the licenses, etc.
• An enforcement wing in the Civil Supplies Department has been constituted with the Superintendents of Police (Retd.), Commercial Tax Officers (Retd.) and Tahsildars (Retd.) to get the inspections done in respect of dealers in essential commodities, FP shops, mills which have been given paddy for CMR, MLS points and godowns of the Civil Supplies Corporation Ltd. And to get the cases booked by the competent enforcement officials under their supervision. The wing is functioning in the Civil Supplies Department under the overall control of the Commissioner of Civil Supplies.

IMPLEMENTATION OF GPS VEHICLE TRACKING SYSTEM

• GPS Vehicle Tracking System has been introduced in TSCSCL to track the movement of vehicles transporting PDS commodities under stage-I & stage-II transportation system and Kerosene tankers (in two districts) by installing tracking devices in all the vehicles. A command control center has been established at CSC head office to monitor state wide activities. Specific personnel have been appointed by M/s Trans Global Geomatic Pvt.ltd. to assist in monitoring the state wide tracking both at head office and at district level.

SUPPLY CHAIN MANAGEMENT

• Supply Chain Management is being implemented under end to end computerization of TPDS operations by TSCSCL in MLS Points/Godown space hired by TSCSCL for buffer storage.
• Separate login Id’s have been provided to all the stakeholders of PDS for active participation. (Commissioner, VC & MD, FCI at Central level and at District level all the District Managers , Tahsildars , MLS Point Incharges and Buffer godowns Incharges)
• The real time stock position at each MLS points can be verified online at http://www.scm.telangana.gov.in/SCM/ through specified logins.
• As part of computerization SCM portal has been integrated with e-PDS portal for effective real time flow of information pertaining to PDS.
• All RO-wise transactions (Release Order for issue of commodities from MLS Point to FP shops at mandal level) have been computerised by integration of Mee-Seva portal with e-PDS and SCM portal for real time flow of FP Shop payment details pertaining to lifting of commodities.