Free and Subsidized food
Government of Jammu and Kashmir is streamlining the distribution of food grains on subsidized rates and free food grains for poor.
Recently Chief Secretary, held meetings of Food, Civil Supplies and Consumer Affairs (FCS&CA) Department and Legal Metrology Department regarding their performance and functioning here in the UT.
The Controller, Legal Metrology, Majid Khalil Drabu while throwing light on the performance of the Department made out that it enforces provisions of the Legal Metrology Act to regulate weights & measures here by way of their verification/ re-verification besides licencing of dealers, manufacturers and importers of packaged commodities.
Regarding the performance of the Department it was divulged that out of the 75,871 applications the Department has approved 70,158 applications with remaining with the applicants for certain clarifications.
During current financial year, it was given out that 120 verification camps were held across different districts of the UT. It was said that 203 petrol pumps were also verified with calibration of 2407 nozzles during this period.
About generation of revenue from stamping/verification by the Department it was enunciated that an amount of Rs 299 lakhs were collected besides Rs 12.29 lakh on account of user charges from weighbridge crane.
