The Punjab authorities on Monday invited tenders for supply of wheat flour to about 1.83 crore beneficiaries of the National Food Security Act (NFSA).

A state authorities spokesperson stated that the tenders have been floated by the newly shaped Punjab State Cooperative Marketing Society Limited for the inclusion of supply providers and itemizing of flour mills for grinding of wheat.

On assuming energy within the month of March, chief minister Bhagwant Mann introduced to start out door-to-door supply of wheat or wheat flour to the beneficiaries giving them an possibility to decide on.

“To reduce the economic burden on the NFSA beneficiaries and ensure they get monthly wheat flour, the initiative has been taken by the state’s food and civil supplies department by launching the home delivery of wheat flour,” stated a state authorities spokesperson.

It could also be talked about that below the NFSA, the beneficiary at the moment will get wheat at 5 per kg per thirty days, which is able to now get replaced by flour.

Each beneficiary is given 5 kg flour each month, serving to beneficiaries save time and likewise leading to an annual saving of 170 crore to the beneficiaries that goes into grinding of wheat.

The complete distribution info shall be obtainable to the division on-line on a real-time foundation which shall be useful in total provide chain administration, thereby stopping any glitches.

Payment of 2 per kg may be made by means of varied digital modes like BHIM, BharatPe, Paytm and Google Pay.

With the graduation of flour distribution, every household of 4 will get 20 kg of flour per thirty days, which shall be simpler to retailer.

Highlighting the advantages of the service, the spokesperson provides that the beneficiary would now not be required to attend in lengthy queues exterior ration outlets and quit their day-to-day work resulting in a lack of wages.

He knowledgeable that for the primary time, an SMS service is being launched to tell the beneficiary prematurely concerning the scheduled time of house supply of wheat flour.

This is for the primary time that steady distribution of wheat flour would proceed all year long on a month-to-month foundation in opposition to the sooner apply of giving wheat each quarter of the 12 months. Also, in distinction to the present scenario when wheat distribution was restricted throughout March, April and May to verify the re-sale of public distribution wheat again within the mandis when wheat procurement was underway.

Elaborating on the state-of-the-art procedures, he stated that every grain of wheat from supply (godown) to vacation spot (beneficiary) shall be detected utilizing the newest methods of the proposed system corresponding to bar code, CCTV, GPS, biometric authentication with POS gadgets, and many others.