Fair Price Shop
Fair Price Shop is a government-authorized retail outlet that sells essential goods like food and household items at subsidized rates to low-income families, ensuring affordable access to basic necessities.
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SCF&S/ ROs will complete their work within 15.04.22 and the DCF&Ss/ DDRs will do theirs within 30.04.22. After completion of work at the field level, reconciliation of the data with live database will be taken up by the Reforms Cell.
Seeding and validation of Aadhaar will be done instantly at FPSs through ePoS machine on the basis of Aadhaar based Biometric Authentication. Aadhaar seeding process is started from 22.07.2021 onwards.
Social audit on the functioning of Fair Price Shops, Public Distribution System and other welfare schemes shall be conducted under section 28 of the Act.
In case of lifting of food grains from a Fair Price Shop dealer, the ration card holder shall have the option to lift the allocated quota of foodgrains, a) for current week; or b) following weeks
The size of the godown should be minimum 400 sq. ft. along with a covered space of 2.00 sq. ft. adjacent to the godown to be used for office purpose and for FPS automation.
Finance bids of technically qualified applications were opened and given below are the name of the Hospitals and name of the organisations offering highest discount in the concerned hospital.
Fair Price Diagnostic Scheme which includes services like MRI Scan, CT Scan, Digital X-Ray & Dialysis Services is being implemented under PPP at 47 government hospitals. Under this scheme the equipments are being provided through West Bengal Medical Service Corporation.
This Order extends to the whole of West Bengal except the areas where the West Bengal Urban Public Distribution System (Maintenance & Control) Order, 2013 is in force.
Scheduled time for capturing ration card data at Fair Price Shop level has been extended for the 11 districts viz. Kolkata, North 24 Parganas (excepting municipal areas), Howrah, Hooghly, Purba Medinipur, Purulia, Birbhum, Bankura, Burdwan, Dakshin Dinajpur and Coochbehar.
Fair Price Medicine Shops through PPP for 31 Hospitals – Name of Organizations who have become H1 Bidders after opening of Financial Bids (i.e. % of Discount offered on MRP) of all technically qualified applicants.
Assistant Superintendent (NM) attached to District and Sub-Divisional Hospitals will be designated as Nodal Officer of Fair Price Medicine Shops.
MSVPs of all medical college & hospitals and Superintendents of hospitals where such fair price shops are located shall procure drugs & consumables under JSSK from these shops.
Whereas the Governor is of opinion that it is necessary and expedient so to do for maintaining supplies and securing availability and distribution of essential commodities under the Public Distribution System;