Bhubaneswar: The state-level conference of food supply and civil supplies corporation officials concluded today at the Lok Seva Bhawan Convention Centre, heavily emphasizing structural improvements in the Public Distribution System and the scaling up of paddy procurement operations. Minister Shri Krushna Chandra Patra chaired the Meeting.
Principal Secretary of Food, Supplies, and Consumer Welfare, Shri Sanjay Kumar Singh, directed the state’s district and additional supply officers to prioritize efficiency and technological integration to optimize these core supply networks.
Addressing the CSOs, Principal Secretary Shri Singh stressed that transparency remains foundational to delivering essential commodities effectively to the grassroots level. He focused extensively on updating the Public Distribution System through digitization, revealing that 96 percent of food security beneficiaries have successfully completed their biometric e-KYC verification.
To fully secure the state’s supply framework against discrepancies, Shri Singh urged field officers to launch a final push toward achieving a 100 percent verification rate across all districts. He added that 144 fair price shops have reached absolute completion of this process, establishing a benchmark for the remaining fair price retail network to achieve full compliance rapidly.
Shifting the agenda to agricultural procurement management, the Principal Secretary detailed the vast scale of operations executed during the previous Kharif cycle. A total of 78 lakh metric tonnes of paddy was successfully acquired, drawing directly from a pool of approximately 19 lakh registered farmers across Odisha.
Shri Singh highlighted that this massive logistical undertaking ensured the direct financial disbursement of nearly 24 thousand crore rupees to farmers, covering both Minimum Support Price allocations and critical input assistance.
The conference underscored that robust monitoring of mandis, combined with technology-backed supply tracking, remains indispensable to preserving the integrity of Odisha’s food security and agricultural supply lines.