Nagaland Food and Civil Supplies to implement new module from November

DIMAPUR — The Department of Food & Civil Supplies (F&CS) informed that the Government of India has migrated its earlier applications utilised under NFSA Act, 2013 to SMART PDS, wherein a new module called integrated Aadhaar enabled supply chain management (IAeSCM) is being followed.

It stated that under this module, systematic steps starting from indent generation to FCI and issue of release order by FCI up to ePoS transaction by the FPS have to be performed sequentially. It informed that all stakeholders like the department of FCI, PDC in-charges, FPS operators and ration card holders play a vital role to complete the flow chain of the supply chain management system which functions on real-time mode. It added that any disruption in the sequential system adversely affects the normal flow.

Also read: Fellowship of Naga Baptist Associations condemns drone attack on innocent civilians

It reminded all the concerned fair price shop operators (both village council-run FPS/ urban FPS) that manual mode of transaction has been completely stopped as per the directive during the NE conference held on January 30 and 31 in Guwahati under the chairmanship of joint secretary, Ministry of Consumer Affairs, DoFPD, GoI. It, therefore, stated that transaction performed only on online mode or partial offline mode through ePoS devices would accounted.

It further stated that the non-transacted quantity would remain as closing balance (CB) which would be carried forward to the subsequent month and reconciled/ adjusted accordingly. It added that the reconciliation of closing balance would be initiated from the month of November 2025.