Deprecated (16384): The ArrayAccess methods will be removed in 4.0.0.Use getParam(), getData() and getQuery() instead. - /home/brlfuser/public_html/src/Controller/ArtileDetailController.php, line: 73
 You can disable deprecation warnings by setting `Error.errorLevel` to `E_ALL & ~E_USER_DEPRECATED` in your config/app.php. [CORE/src/Core/functions.php, line 311]
Code Context


        trigger_error($message, E_USER_DEPRECATED);

    }
$message = 'The ArrayAccess methods will be removed in 4.0.0.Use getParam(), getData() and getQuery() instead. - /home/brlfuser/public_html/src/Controller/ArtileDetailController.php, line: 73
 You can disable deprecation warnings by setting `Error.errorLevel` to `E_ALL & ~E_USER_DEPRECATED` in your config/app.php.'
$stackFrame = (int) 1
$trace = [
	(int) 0 => [
		'file' => '/home/brlfuser/public_html/vendor/cakephp/cakephp/src/Http/ServerRequest.php',
		'line' => (int) 2421,
		'function' => 'deprecationWarning',
		'args' => [
			(int) 0 => 'The ArrayAccess methods will be removed in 4.0.0.Use getParam(), getData() and getQuery() instead.'
		]
	],
	(int) 1 => [
		'file' => '/home/brlfuser/public_html/src/Controller/ArtileDetailController.php',
		'line' => (int) 73,
		'function' => 'offsetGet',
		'class' => 'Cake\Http\ServerRequest',
		'object' => object(Cake\Http\ServerRequest) {},
		'type' => '->',
		'args' => [
			(int) 0 => 'catslug'
		]
	],
	(int) 2 => [
		'file' => '/home/brlfuser/public_html/vendor/cakephp/cakephp/src/Controller/Controller.php',
		'line' => (int) 610,
		'function' => 'printArticle',
		'class' => 'App\Controller\ArtileDetailController',
		'object' => object(App\Controller\ArtileDetailController) {},
		'type' => '->',
		'args' => []
	],
	(int) 3 => [
		'file' => '/home/brlfuser/public_html/vendor/cakephp/cakephp/src/Http/ActionDispatcher.php',
		'line' => (int) 120,
		'function' => 'invokeAction',
		'class' => 'Cake\Controller\Controller',
		'object' => object(App\Controller\ArtileDetailController) {},
		'type' => '->',
		'args' => []
	],
	(int) 4 => [
		'file' => '/home/brlfuser/public_html/vendor/cakephp/cakephp/src/Http/ActionDispatcher.php',
		'line' => (int) 94,
		'function' => '_invoke',
		'class' => 'Cake\Http\ActionDispatcher',
		'object' => object(Cake\Http\ActionDispatcher) {},
		'type' => '->',
		'args' => [
			(int) 0 => object(App\Controller\ArtileDetailController) {}
		]
	],
	(int) 5 => [
		'file' => '/home/brlfuser/public_html/vendor/cakephp/cakephp/src/Http/BaseApplication.php',
		'line' => (int) 235,
		'function' => 'dispatch',
		'class' => 'Cake\Http\ActionDispatcher',
		'object' => object(Cake\Http\ActionDispatcher) {},
		'type' => '->',
		'args' => [
			(int) 0 => object(Cake\Http\ServerRequest) {},
			(int) 1 => object(Cake\Http\Response) {}
		]
	],
	(int) 6 => [
		'file' => '/home/brlfuser/public_html/vendor/cakephp/cakephp/src/Http/Runner.php',
		'line' => (int) 65,
		'function' => '__invoke',
		'class' => 'Cake\Http\BaseApplication',
		'object' => object(App\Application) {},
		'type' => '->',
		'args' => [
			(int) 0 => object(Cake\Http\ServerRequest) {},
			(int) 1 => object(Cake\Http\Response) {},
			(int) 2 => object(Cake\Http\Runner) {}
		]
	],
	(int) 7 => [
		'file' => '/home/brlfuser/public_html/vendor/cakephp/cakephp/src/Routing/Middleware/RoutingMiddleware.php',
		'line' => (int) 162,
		'function' => '__invoke',
		'class' => 'Cake\Http\Runner',
		'object' => object(Cake\Http\Runner) {},
		'type' => '->',
		'args' => [
			(int) 0 => object(Cake\Http\ServerRequest) {},
			(int) 1 => object(Cake\Http\Response) {}
		]
	],
	(int) 8 => [
		'file' => '/home/brlfuser/public_html/vendor/cakephp/cakephp/src/Http/Runner.php',
		'line' => (int) 65,
		'function' => '__invoke',
		'class' => 'Cake\Routing\Middleware\RoutingMiddleware',
		'object' => object(Cake\Routing\Middleware\RoutingMiddleware) {},
		'type' => '->',
		'args' => [
			(int) 0 => object(Cake\Http\ServerRequest) {},
			(int) 1 => object(Cake\Http\Response) {},
			(int) 2 => object(Cake\Http\Runner) {}
		]
	],
	(int) 9 => [
		'file' => '/home/brlfuser/public_html/vendor/cakephp/cakephp/src/Routing/Middleware/AssetMiddleware.php',
		'line' => (int) 88,
		'function' => '__invoke',
		'class' => 'Cake\Http\Runner',
		'object' => object(Cake\Http\Runner) {},
		'type' => '->',
		'args' => [
			(int) 0 => object(Cake\Http\ServerRequest) {},
			(int) 1 => object(Cake\Http\Response) {}
		]
	],
	(int) 10 => [
		'file' => '/home/brlfuser/public_html/vendor/cakephp/cakephp/src/Http/Runner.php',
		'line' => (int) 65,
		'function' => '__invoke',
		'class' => 'Cake\Routing\Middleware\AssetMiddleware',
		'object' => object(Cake\Routing\Middleware\AssetMiddleware) {},
		'type' => '->',
		'args' => [
			(int) 0 => object(Cake\Http\ServerRequest) {},
			(int) 1 => object(Cake\Http\Response) {},
			(int) 2 => object(Cake\Http\Runner) {}
		]
	],
	(int) 11 => [
		'file' => '/home/brlfuser/public_html/vendor/cakephp/cakephp/src/Error/Middleware/ErrorHandlerMiddleware.php',
		'line' => (int) 96,
		'function' => '__invoke',
		'class' => 'Cake\Http\Runner',
		'object' => object(Cake\Http\Runner) {},
		'type' => '->',
		'args' => [
			(int) 0 => object(Cake\Http\ServerRequest) {},
			(int) 1 => object(Cake\Http\Response) {}
		]
	],
	(int) 12 => [
		'file' => '/home/brlfuser/public_html/vendor/cakephp/cakephp/src/Http/Runner.php',
		'line' => (int) 65,
		'function' => '__invoke',
		'class' => 'Cake\Error\Middleware\ErrorHandlerMiddleware',
		'object' => object(Cake\Error\Middleware\ErrorHandlerMiddleware) {},
		'type' => '->',
		'args' => [
			(int) 0 => object(Cake\Http\ServerRequest) {},
			(int) 1 => object(Cake\Http\Response) {},
			(int) 2 => object(Cake\Http\Runner) {}
		]
	],
	(int) 13 => [
		'file' => '/home/brlfuser/public_html/vendor/cakephp/cakephp/src/Http/Runner.php',
		'line' => (int) 51,
		'function' => '__invoke',
		'class' => 'Cake\Http\Runner',
		'object' => object(Cake\Http\Runner) {},
		'type' => '->',
		'args' => [
			(int) 0 => object(Cake\Http\ServerRequest) {},
			(int) 1 => object(Cake\Http\Response) {}
		]
	],
	(int) 14 => [
		'file' => '/home/brlfuser/public_html/vendor/cakephp/cakephp/src/Http/Server.php',
		'line' => (int) 98,
		'function' => 'run',
		'class' => 'Cake\Http\Runner',
		'object' => object(Cake\Http\Runner) {},
		'type' => '->',
		'args' => [
			(int) 0 => object(Cake\Http\MiddlewareQueue) {},
			(int) 1 => object(Cake\Http\ServerRequest) {},
			(int) 2 => object(Cake\Http\Response) {}
		]
	],
	(int) 15 => [
		'file' => '/home/brlfuser/public_html/webroot/index.php',
		'line' => (int) 39,
		'function' => 'run',
		'class' => 'Cake\Http\Server',
		'object' => object(Cake\Http\Server) {},
		'type' => '->',
		'args' => []
	]
]
$frame = [
	'file' => '/home/brlfuser/public_html/src/Controller/ArtileDetailController.php',
	'line' => (int) 73,
	'function' => 'offsetGet',
	'class' => 'Cake\Http\ServerRequest',
	'object' => object(Cake\Http\ServerRequest) {
		trustProxy => false
		[protected] params => [
			[maximum depth reached]
		]
		[protected] data => [[maximum depth reached]]
		[protected] query => [[maximum depth reached]]
		[protected] cookies => [
			[maximum depth reached]
		]
		[protected] _environment => [
			[maximum depth reached]
		]
		[protected] url => 'latest-news-updates/grand-plans-for-overhaul-of-pds-by-suman-chakraborti-8572/print'
		[protected] base => ''
		[protected] webroot => '/'
		[protected] here => '/latest-news-updates/grand-plans-for-overhaul-of-pds-by-suman-chakraborti-8572/print'
		[protected] trustedProxies => [[maximum depth reached]]
		[protected] _input => null
		[protected] _detectors => [
			[maximum depth reached]
		]
		[protected] _detectorCache => [
			[maximum depth reached]
		]
		[protected] stream => object(Zend\Diactoros\PhpInputStream) {}
		[protected] uri => object(Zend\Diactoros\Uri) {}
		[protected] session => object(Cake\Http\Session) {}
		[protected] attributes => [[maximum depth reached]]
		[protected] emulatedAttributes => [
			[maximum depth reached]
		]
		[protected] uploadedFiles => [[maximum depth reached]]
		[protected] protocol => null
		[protected] requestTarget => null
		[private] deprecatedProperties => [
			[maximum depth reached]
		]
	},
	'type' => '->',
	'args' => [
		(int) 0 => 'catslug'
	]
]
deprecationWarning - CORE/src/Core/functions.php, line 311
Cake\Http\ServerRequest::offsetGet() - CORE/src/Http/ServerRequest.php, line 2421
App\Controller\ArtileDetailController::printArticle() - APP/Controller/ArtileDetailController.php, line 73
Cake\Controller\Controller::invokeAction() - CORE/src/Controller/Controller.php, line 610
Cake\Http\ActionDispatcher::_invoke() - CORE/src/Http/ActionDispatcher.php, line 120
Cake\Http\ActionDispatcher::dispatch() - CORE/src/Http/ActionDispatcher.php, line 94
Cake\Http\BaseApplication::__invoke() - CORE/src/Http/BaseApplication.php, line 235
Cake\Http\Runner::__invoke() - CORE/src/Http/Runner.php, line 65
Cake\Routing\Middleware\RoutingMiddleware::__invoke() - CORE/src/Routing/Middleware/RoutingMiddleware.php, line 162
Cake\Http\Runner::__invoke() - CORE/src/Http/Runner.php, line 65
Cake\Routing\Middleware\AssetMiddleware::__invoke() - CORE/src/Routing/Middleware/AssetMiddleware.php, line 88
Cake\Http\Runner::__invoke() - CORE/src/Http/Runner.php, line 65
Cake\Error\Middleware\ErrorHandlerMiddleware::__invoke() - CORE/src/Error/Middleware/ErrorHandlerMiddleware.php, line 96
Cake\Http\Runner::__invoke() - CORE/src/Http/Runner.php, line 65
Cake\Http\Runner::run() - CORE/src/Http/Runner.php, line 51
Cake\Http\Server::run() - CORE/src/Http/Server.php, line 98

Deprecated (16384): The ArrayAccess methods will be removed in 4.0.0.Use getParam(), getData() and getQuery() instead. - /home/brlfuser/public_html/src/Controller/ArtileDetailController.php, line: 74
 You can disable deprecation warnings by setting `Error.errorLevel` to `E_ALL & ~E_USER_DEPRECATED` in your config/app.php. [CORE/src/Core/functions.php, line 311]
Code Context


        trigger_error($message, E_USER_DEPRECATED);

    }
$message = 'The ArrayAccess methods will be removed in 4.0.0.Use getParam(), getData() and getQuery() instead. - /home/brlfuser/public_html/src/Controller/ArtileDetailController.php, line: 74
 You can disable deprecation warnings by setting `Error.errorLevel` to `E_ALL & ~E_USER_DEPRECATED` in your config/app.php.'
$stackFrame = (int) 1
$trace = [
	(int) 0 => [
		'file' => '/home/brlfuser/public_html/vendor/cakephp/cakephp/src/Http/ServerRequest.php',
		'line' => (int) 2421,
		'function' => 'deprecationWarning',
		'args' => [
			(int) 0 => 'The ArrayAccess methods will be removed in 4.0.0.Use getParam(), getData() and getQuery() instead.'
		]
	],
	(int) 1 => [
		'file' => '/home/brlfuser/public_html/src/Controller/ArtileDetailController.php',
		'line' => (int) 74,
		'function' => 'offsetGet',
		'class' => 'Cake\Http\ServerRequest',
		'object' => object(Cake\Http\ServerRequest) {},
		'type' => '->',
		'args' => [
			(int) 0 => 'artileslug'
		]
	],
	(int) 2 => [
		'file' => '/home/brlfuser/public_html/vendor/cakephp/cakephp/src/Controller/Controller.php',
		'line' => (int) 610,
		'function' => 'printArticle',
		'class' => 'App\Controller\ArtileDetailController',
		'object' => object(App\Controller\ArtileDetailController) {},
		'type' => '->',
		'args' => []
	],
	(int) 3 => [
		'file' => '/home/brlfuser/public_html/vendor/cakephp/cakephp/src/Http/ActionDispatcher.php',
		'line' => (int) 120,
		'function' => 'invokeAction',
		'class' => 'Cake\Controller\Controller',
		'object' => object(App\Controller\ArtileDetailController) {},
		'type' => '->',
		'args' => []
	],
	(int) 4 => [
		'file' => '/home/brlfuser/public_html/vendor/cakephp/cakephp/src/Http/ActionDispatcher.php',
		'line' => (int) 94,
		'function' => '_invoke',
		'class' => 'Cake\Http\ActionDispatcher',
		'object' => object(Cake\Http\ActionDispatcher) {},
		'type' => '->',
		'args' => [
			(int) 0 => object(App\Controller\ArtileDetailController) {}
		]
	],
	(int) 5 => [
		'file' => '/home/brlfuser/public_html/vendor/cakephp/cakephp/src/Http/BaseApplication.php',
		'line' => (int) 235,
		'function' => 'dispatch',
		'class' => 'Cake\Http\ActionDispatcher',
		'object' => object(Cake\Http\ActionDispatcher) {},
		'type' => '->',
		'args' => [
			(int) 0 => object(Cake\Http\ServerRequest) {},
			(int) 1 => object(Cake\Http\Response) {}
		]
	],
	(int) 6 => [
		'file' => '/home/brlfuser/public_html/vendor/cakephp/cakephp/src/Http/Runner.php',
		'line' => (int) 65,
		'function' => '__invoke',
		'class' => 'Cake\Http\BaseApplication',
		'object' => object(App\Application) {},
		'type' => '->',
		'args' => [
			(int) 0 => object(Cake\Http\ServerRequest) {},
			(int) 1 => object(Cake\Http\Response) {},
			(int) 2 => object(Cake\Http\Runner) {}
		]
	],
	(int) 7 => [
		'file' => '/home/brlfuser/public_html/vendor/cakephp/cakephp/src/Routing/Middleware/RoutingMiddleware.php',
		'line' => (int) 162,
		'function' => '__invoke',
		'class' => 'Cake\Http\Runner',
		'object' => object(Cake\Http\Runner) {},
		'type' => '->',
		'args' => [
			(int) 0 => object(Cake\Http\ServerRequest) {},
			(int) 1 => object(Cake\Http\Response) {}
		]
	],
	(int) 8 => [
		'file' => '/home/brlfuser/public_html/vendor/cakephp/cakephp/src/Http/Runner.php',
		'line' => (int) 65,
		'function' => '__invoke',
		'class' => 'Cake\Routing\Middleware\RoutingMiddleware',
		'object' => object(Cake\Routing\Middleware\RoutingMiddleware) {},
		'type' => '->',
		'args' => [
			(int) 0 => object(Cake\Http\ServerRequest) {},
			(int) 1 => object(Cake\Http\Response) {},
			(int) 2 => object(Cake\Http\Runner) {}
		]
	],
	(int) 9 => [
		'file' => '/home/brlfuser/public_html/vendor/cakephp/cakephp/src/Routing/Middleware/AssetMiddleware.php',
		'line' => (int) 88,
		'function' => '__invoke',
		'class' => 'Cake\Http\Runner',
		'object' => object(Cake\Http\Runner) {},
		'type' => '->',
		'args' => [
			(int) 0 => object(Cake\Http\ServerRequest) {},
			(int) 1 => object(Cake\Http\Response) {}
		]
	],
	(int) 10 => [
		'file' => '/home/brlfuser/public_html/vendor/cakephp/cakephp/src/Http/Runner.php',
		'line' => (int) 65,
		'function' => '__invoke',
		'class' => 'Cake\Routing\Middleware\AssetMiddleware',
		'object' => object(Cake\Routing\Middleware\AssetMiddleware) {},
		'type' => '->',
		'args' => [
			(int) 0 => object(Cake\Http\ServerRequest) {},
			(int) 1 => object(Cake\Http\Response) {},
			(int) 2 => object(Cake\Http\Runner) {}
		]
	],
	(int) 11 => [
		'file' => '/home/brlfuser/public_html/vendor/cakephp/cakephp/src/Error/Middleware/ErrorHandlerMiddleware.php',
		'line' => (int) 96,
		'function' => '__invoke',
		'class' => 'Cake\Http\Runner',
		'object' => object(Cake\Http\Runner) {},
		'type' => '->',
		'args' => [
			(int) 0 => object(Cake\Http\ServerRequest) {},
			(int) 1 => object(Cake\Http\Response) {}
		]
	],
	(int) 12 => [
		'file' => '/home/brlfuser/public_html/vendor/cakephp/cakephp/src/Http/Runner.php',
		'line' => (int) 65,
		'function' => '__invoke',
		'class' => 'Cake\Error\Middleware\ErrorHandlerMiddleware',
		'object' => object(Cake\Error\Middleware\ErrorHandlerMiddleware) {},
		'type' => '->',
		'args' => [
			(int) 0 => object(Cake\Http\ServerRequest) {},
			(int) 1 => object(Cake\Http\Response) {},
			(int) 2 => object(Cake\Http\Runner) {}
		]
	],
	(int) 13 => [
		'file' => '/home/brlfuser/public_html/vendor/cakephp/cakephp/src/Http/Runner.php',
		'line' => (int) 51,
		'function' => '__invoke',
		'class' => 'Cake\Http\Runner',
		'object' => object(Cake\Http\Runner) {},
		'type' => '->',
		'args' => [
			(int) 0 => object(Cake\Http\ServerRequest) {},
			(int) 1 => object(Cake\Http\Response) {}
		]
	],
	(int) 14 => [
		'file' => '/home/brlfuser/public_html/vendor/cakephp/cakephp/src/Http/Server.php',
		'line' => (int) 98,
		'function' => 'run',
		'class' => 'Cake\Http\Runner',
		'object' => object(Cake\Http\Runner) {},
		'type' => '->',
		'args' => [
			(int) 0 => object(Cake\Http\MiddlewareQueue) {},
			(int) 1 => object(Cake\Http\ServerRequest) {},
			(int) 2 => object(Cake\Http\Response) {}
		]
	],
	(int) 15 => [
		'file' => '/home/brlfuser/public_html/webroot/index.php',
		'line' => (int) 39,
		'function' => 'run',
		'class' => 'Cake\Http\Server',
		'object' => object(Cake\Http\Server) {},
		'type' => '->',
		'args' => []
	]
]
$frame = [
	'file' => '/home/brlfuser/public_html/src/Controller/ArtileDetailController.php',
	'line' => (int) 74,
	'function' => 'offsetGet',
	'class' => 'Cake\Http\ServerRequest',
	'object' => object(Cake\Http\ServerRequest) {
		trustProxy => false
		[protected] params => [
			[maximum depth reached]
		]
		[protected] data => [[maximum depth reached]]
		[protected] query => [[maximum depth reached]]
		[protected] cookies => [
			[maximum depth reached]
		]
		[protected] _environment => [
			[maximum depth reached]
		]
		[protected] url => 'latest-news-updates/grand-plans-for-overhaul-of-pds-by-suman-chakraborti-8572/print'
		[protected] base => ''
		[protected] webroot => '/'
		[protected] here => '/latest-news-updates/grand-plans-for-overhaul-of-pds-by-suman-chakraborti-8572/print'
		[protected] trustedProxies => [[maximum depth reached]]
		[protected] _input => null
		[protected] _detectors => [
			[maximum depth reached]
		]
		[protected] _detectorCache => [
			[maximum depth reached]
		]
		[protected] stream => object(Zend\Diactoros\PhpInputStream) {}
		[protected] uri => object(Zend\Diactoros\Uri) {}
		[protected] session => object(Cake\Http\Session) {}
		[protected] attributes => [[maximum depth reached]]
		[protected] emulatedAttributes => [
			[maximum depth reached]
		]
		[protected] uploadedFiles => [[maximum depth reached]]
		[protected] protocol => null
		[protected] requestTarget => null
		[private] deprecatedProperties => [
			[maximum depth reached]
		]
	},
	'type' => '->',
	'args' => [
		(int) 0 => 'artileslug'
	]
]
deprecationWarning - CORE/src/Core/functions.php, line 311
Cake\Http\ServerRequest::offsetGet() - CORE/src/Http/ServerRequest.php, line 2421
App\Controller\ArtileDetailController::printArticle() - APP/Controller/ArtileDetailController.php, line 74
Cake\Controller\Controller::invokeAction() - CORE/src/Controller/Controller.php, line 610
Cake\Http\ActionDispatcher::_invoke() - CORE/src/Http/ActionDispatcher.php, line 120
Cake\Http\ActionDispatcher::dispatch() - CORE/src/Http/ActionDispatcher.php, line 94
Cake\Http\BaseApplication::__invoke() - CORE/src/Http/BaseApplication.php, line 235
Cake\Http\Runner::__invoke() - CORE/src/Http/Runner.php, line 65
Cake\Routing\Middleware\RoutingMiddleware::__invoke() - CORE/src/Routing/Middleware/RoutingMiddleware.php, line 162
Cake\Http\Runner::__invoke() - CORE/src/Http/Runner.php, line 65
Cake\Routing\Middleware\AssetMiddleware::__invoke() - CORE/src/Routing/Middleware/AssetMiddleware.php, line 88
Cake\Http\Runner::__invoke() - CORE/src/Http/Runner.php, line 65
Cake\Error\Middleware\ErrorHandlerMiddleware::__invoke() - CORE/src/Error/Middleware/ErrorHandlerMiddleware.php, line 96
Cake\Http\Runner::__invoke() - CORE/src/Http/Runner.php, line 65
Cake\Http\Runner::run() - CORE/src/Http/Runner.php, line 51
Cake\Http\Server::run() - CORE/src/Http/Server.php, line 98

Warning (512): Unable to emit headers. Headers sent in file=/home/brlfuser/public_html/vendor/cakephp/cakephp/src/Error/Debugger.php line=853 [CORE/src/Http/ResponseEmitter.php, line 48]
Code Context
            if (Configure::read('debug')) {

                trigger_error($message, E_USER_WARNING);

            } else {
$response = object(Cake\Http\Response) {

	'status' => (int) 200,
	'contentType' => 'text/html',
	'headers' => [
		'Content-Type' => [
			[maximum depth reached]
		]
	],
	'file' => null,
	'fileRange' => [],
	'cookies' => object(Cake\Http\Cookie\CookieCollection) {},
	'cacheDirectives' => [],
	'body' => '<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN"
        "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
<head>
    <link rel="canonical" href="https://im4change.in/<pre class="cake-error"><a href="javascript:void(0);" onclick="document.getElementById('cakeErr680523d164cf6-trace').style.display = (document.getElementById('cakeErr680523d164cf6-trace').style.display == 'none' ? '' : 'none');"><b>Notice</b> (8)</a>: Undefined variable: urlPrefix [<b>APP/Template/Layout/printlayout.ctp</b>, line <b>8</b>]<div id="cakeErr680523d164cf6-trace" class="cake-stack-trace" style="display: none;"><a href="javascript:void(0);" onclick="document.getElementById('cakeErr680523d164cf6-code').style.display = (document.getElementById('cakeErr680523d164cf6-code').style.display == 'none' ? '' : 'none')">Code</a> <a href="javascript:void(0);" onclick="document.getElementById('cakeErr680523d164cf6-context').style.display = (document.getElementById('cakeErr680523d164cf6-context').style.display == 'none' ? '' : 'none')">Context</a><pre id="cakeErr680523d164cf6-code" class="cake-code-dump" style="display: none;"><code><span style="color: #000000"><span style="color: #0000BB"></span><span style="color: #007700">&lt;</span><span style="color: #0000BB">head</span><span style="color: #007700">&gt;
</span></span></code>
<span class="code-highlight"><code><span style="color: #000000">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&lt;link&nbsp;rel="canonical"&nbsp;href="<span style="color: #0000BB">&lt;?php&nbsp;</span><span style="color: #007700">echo&nbsp;</span><span style="color: #0000BB">Configure</span><span style="color: #007700">::</span><span style="color: #0000BB">read</span><span style="color: #007700">(</span><span style="color: #DD0000">'SITE_URL'</span><span style="color: #007700">);&nbsp;</span><span style="color: #0000BB">?&gt;&lt;?php&nbsp;</span><span style="color: #007700">echo&nbsp;</span><span style="color: #0000BB">$urlPrefix</span><span style="color: #007700">;</span><span style="color: #0000BB">?&gt;&lt;?php&nbsp;</span><span style="color: #007700">echo&nbsp;</span><span style="color: #0000BB">$article_current</span><span style="color: #007700">-&gt;</span><span style="color: #0000BB">category</span><span style="color: #007700">-&gt;</span><span style="color: #0000BB">slug</span><span style="color: #007700">;&nbsp;</span><span style="color: #0000BB">?&gt;</span>/<span style="color: #0000BB">&lt;?php&nbsp;</span><span style="color: #007700">echo&nbsp;</span><span style="color: #0000BB">$article_current</span><span style="color: #007700">-&gt;</span><span style="color: #0000BB">seo_url</span><span style="color: #007700">;&nbsp;</span><span style="color: #0000BB">?&gt;</span>.html"/&gt;
</span></code></span>
<code><span style="color: #000000"><span style="color: #0000BB">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;</span><span style="color: #007700">&lt;</span><span style="color: #0000BB">meta&nbsp;http</span><span style="color: #007700">-</span><span style="color: #0000BB">equiv</span><span style="color: #007700">=</span><span style="color: #DD0000">"Content-Type"&nbsp;</span><span style="color: #0000BB">content</span><span style="color: #007700">=</span><span style="color: #DD0000">"text/html;&nbsp;charset=utf-8"</span><span style="color: #007700">/&gt;
</span></span></code></pre><pre id="cakeErr680523d164cf6-context" class="cake-context" style="display: none;">$viewFile = &#039;/home/brlfuser/public_html/src/Template/Layout/printlayout.ctp&#039;
$dataForView = [
	&#039;article_current&#039; =&gt; object(App\Model\Entity\Article) {

		&#039;id&#039; =&gt; (int) 8471,
		&#039;title&#039; =&gt; &#039;Grand plans for overhaul of PDS by Suman Chakraborti&#039;,
		&#039;subheading&#039; =&gt; &#039;&#039;,
		&#039;description&#039; =&gt; &#039;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;div align=&quot;justify&quot;&gt;
The state food department has drawn up elaborate plans to develop the infrastructure of the public distribution system (PDS) following chief minister Mamata Banerjee&#039;s visit to Khadya Bhavan last week. &lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
During the visit, the chief minister asked that a committee comprising trade union members be formed and that they come up with suggestions on how to improve the infrastructure of the PDS scheme and evict corruption from the system. A day after that, food minister Jyotipriya Mullick sat down with the union members to discuss the issue. &lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;quot;The union members all agreed with the chief minister&#039;s view that the PDS system needs a thorough modernisation. We have chalked up a plan which will be submitted to the chief minister,&amp;quot; Mullick said. &lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
The food minister said that at present, the department does not have a computerised data bank system. &amp;quot;I sat down with industries and IT minister Partha Chatterjee along with officials of Webel and Wipro to discuss this matter. We will instal six computers in Khadya Bhavan and four fax machines. A monitoring and vigilance cell will also be set up to supervise the PDS system,&amp;quot; said Mullick. It has also been decided that the food minister will sit with the unions at least once a month to discuss on the progress of the PDS. &lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
A suggestions and complaint box is also being set up at Khadya Bhavan. Apart from this, every Monday, the food minister will hold a two-hour session with consumers and dealers to listen to their complaints and grievances. &lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
The minister claimed that crores of fake ration cards are being circulated in the market and if this could be stopped, 1.4 crore more people could benefit from the PDS scheme and the huge amount of food that is getting sold in the open market could be controlled. The department is considering introducing digital ration cards, but it will take around Rs 181 crore to set up the requisite infrastructure. The system is both time-consuming and costly, officials said. &lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
As of now, the department has already started running trials to distribute food from the Food Corporation of India (FCI) godowns to distributors and from them, to dealers. &amp;quot;Till so far, the dealers used to collect food from the distributors&#039; godowns. In the new system, the transportation cost will come down. Trial run has already been conducted in four blocks of South 24-Parganas where this process has been successful and now we are going to introduce this system in a full-fledged manner,&amp;quot; Mullick said. &lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
Also, the food department wants to introduce a special food package for the tea garden labourers of North Bengal. &amp;quot;I will visit the tea gardens in Darjeeling and Jalpaiguri this month to look into the matter,&amp;quot; the food minister said. &lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
The food department has already appointed one official in each of the three districts of Jangalmahal - Bankura, Purulia and West Midnapore - for thorough inspection of how the PDS was conducted in the districts. &lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
The shortage of staff in the food department in the city and districts is also another area of concern. The department will be working on the process to increase staff strength. According to present estimates, there is 56% staff shortage in the districts and 40% in the city. &lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;/div&gt;&#039;,
		&#039;credit_writer&#039; =&gt; &#039;The Times of India, 22 June, 2011, http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/kolkata-/Grand-plans-for-overhaul-of-PDS/articleshow/8944531.cms&#039;,
		&#039;article_img&#039; =&gt; &#039;&#039;,
		&#039;article_img_thumb&#039; =&gt; &#039;&#039;,
		&#039;status&#039; =&gt; (int) 1,
		&#039;show_on_home&#039; =&gt; (int) 1,
		&#039;lang&#039; =&gt; &#039;EN&#039;,
		&#039;category_id&#039; =&gt; (int) 16,
		&#039;tag_keyword&#039; =&gt; &#039;&#039;,
		&#039;seo_url&#039; =&gt; &#039;grand-plans-for-overhaul-of-pds-by-suman-chakraborti-8572&#039;,
		&#039;meta_title&#039; =&gt; null,
		&#039;meta_keywords&#039; =&gt; null,
		&#039;meta_description&#039; =&gt; null,
		&#039;noindex&#039; =&gt; (int) 0,
		&#039;publish_date&#039; =&gt; object(Cake\I18n\FrozenDate) {},
		&#039;most_visit_section_id&#039; =&gt; null,
		&#039;article_big_img&#039; =&gt; null,
		&#039;liveid&#039; =&gt; (int) 8572,
		&#039;created&#039; =&gt; object(Cake\I18n\FrozenTime) {},
		&#039;modified&#039; =&gt; object(Cake\I18n\FrozenTime) {},
		&#039;edate&#039; =&gt; &#039;&#039;,
		&#039;tags&#039; =&gt; [
			[maximum depth reached]
		],
		&#039;category&#039; =&gt; object(App\Model\Entity\Category) {},
		&#039;[new]&#039; =&gt; false,
		&#039;[accessible]&#039; =&gt; [
			[maximum depth reached]
		],
		&#039;[dirty]&#039; =&gt; [[maximum depth reached]],
		&#039;[original]&#039; =&gt; [[maximum depth reached]],
		&#039;[virtual]&#039; =&gt; [[maximum depth reached]],
		&#039;[hasErrors]&#039; =&gt; false,
		&#039;[errors]&#039; =&gt; [[maximum depth reached]],
		&#039;[invalid]&#039; =&gt; [[maximum depth reached]],
		&#039;[repository]&#039; =&gt; &#039;Articles&#039;
	
	},
	&#039;articleid&#039; =&gt; (int) 8471,
	&#039;metaTitle&#039; =&gt; &#039;LATEST NEWS UPDATES | Grand plans for overhaul of PDS by Suman Chakraborti&#039;,
	&#039;metaKeywords&#039; =&gt; &#039;PDS,Food Security&#039;,
	&#039;metaDesc&#039; =&gt; &#039;

The state food department has drawn up elaborate plans to develop the infrastructure of the public distribution system (PDS) following chief minister Mamata Banerjee&#039;s visit to Khadya Bhavan last week. 

During the visit, the chief minister asked that a committee...&#039;,
	&#039;disp&#039; =&gt; &#039;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div align=&quot;justify&quot;&gt;The state food department has drawn up elaborate plans to develop the infrastructure of the public distribution system (PDS) following chief minister Mamata Banerjee&#039;s visit to Khadya Bhavan last week. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;During the visit, the chief minister asked that a committee comprising trade union members be formed and that they come up with suggestions on how to improve the infrastructure of the PDS scheme and evict corruption from the system. A day after that, food minister Jyotipriya Mullick sat down with the union members to discuss the issue. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&amp;quot;The union members all agreed with the chief minister&#039;s view that the PDS system needs a thorough modernisation. We have chalked up a plan which will be submitted to the chief minister,&amp;quot; Mullick said. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The food minister said that at present, the department does not have a computerised data bank system. &amp;quot;I sat down with industries and IT minister Partha Chatterjee along with officials of Webel and Wipro to discuss this matter. We will instal six computers in Khadya Bhavan and four fax machines. A monitoring and vigilance cell will also be set up to supervise the PDS system,&amp;quot; said Mullick. It has also been decided that the food minister will sit with the unions at least once a month to discuss on the progress of the PDS. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;A suggestions and complaint box is also being set up at Khadya Bhavan. Apart from this, every Monday, the food minister will hold a two-hour session with consumers and dealers to listen to their complaints and grievances. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The minister claimed that crores of fake ration cards are being circulated in the market and if this could be stopped, 1.4 crore more people could benefit from the PDS scheme and the huge amount of food that is getting sold in the open market could be controlled. The department is considering introducing digital ration cards, but it will take around Rs 181 crore to set up the requisite infrastructure. The system is both time-consuming and costly, officials said. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;As of now, the department has already started running trials to distribute food from the Food Corporation of India (FCI) godowns to distributors and from them, to dealers. &amp;quot;Till so far, the dealers used to collect food from the distributors&#039; godowns. In the new system, the transportation cost will come down. Trial run has already been conducted in four blocks of South 24-Parganas where this process has been successful and now we are going to introduce this system in a full-fledged manner,&amp;quot; Mullick said. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Also, the food department wants to introduce a special food package for the tea garden labourers of North Bengal. &amp;quot;I will visit the tea gardens in Darjeeling and Jalpaiguri this month to look into the matter,&amp;quot; the food minister said. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The food department has already appointed one official in each of the three districts of Jangalmahal - Bankura, Purulia and West Midnapore - for thorough inspection of how the PDS was conducted in the districts. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The shortage of staff in the food department in the city and districts is also another area of concern. The department will be working on the process to increase staff strength. According to present estimates, there is 56% staff shortage in the districts and 40% in the city. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&#039;,
	&#039;lang&#039; =&gt; &#039;English&#039;,
	&#039;SITE_URL&#039; =&gt; &#039;https://im4change.in/&#039;,
	&#039;site_title&#039; =&gt; &#039;im4change&#039;,
	&#039;adminprix&#039; =&gt; &#039;admin&#039;
]
$article_current = object(App\Model\Entity\Article) {

	&#039;id&#039; =&gt; (int) 8471,
	&#039;title&#039; =&gt; &#039;Grand plans for overhaul of PDS by Suman Chakraborti&#039;,
	&#039;subheading&#039; =&gt; &#039;&#039;,
	&#039;description&#039; =&gt; &#039;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;div align=&quot;justify&quot;&gt;
The state food department has drawn up elaborate plans to develop the infrastructure of the public distribution system (PDS) following chief minister Mamata Banerjee&#039;s visit to Khadya Bhavan last week. &lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
During the visit, the chief minister asked that a committee comprising trade union members be formed and that they come up with suggestions on how to improve the infrastructure of the PDS scheme and evict corruption from the system. A day after that, food minister Jyotipriya Mullick sat down with the union members to discuss the issue. &lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;quot;The union members all agreed with the chief minister&#039;s view that the PDS system needs a thorough modernisation. We have chalked up a plan which will be submitted to the chief minister,&amp;quot; Mullick said. &lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
The food minister said that at present, the department does not have a computerised data bank system. &amp;quot;I sat down with industries and IT minister Partha Chatterjee along with officials of Webel and Wipro to discuss this matter. We will instal six computers in Khadya Bhavan and four fax machines. A monitoring and vigilance cell will also be set up to supervise the PDS system,&amp;quot; said Mullick. It has also been decided that the food minister will sit with the unions at least once a month to discuss on the progress of the PDS. &lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
A suggestions and complaint box is also being set up at Khadya Bhavan. Apart from this, every Monday, the food minister will hold a two-hour session with consumers and dealers to listen to their complaints and grievances. &lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
The minister claimed that crores of fake ration cards are being circulated in the market and if this could be stopped, 1.4 crore more people could benefit from the PDS scheme and the huge amount of food that is getting sold in the open market could be controlled. The department is considering introducing digital ration cards, but it will take around Rs 181 crore to set up the requisite infrastructure. The system is both time-consuming and costly, officials said. &lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
As of now, the department has already started running trials to distribute food from the Food Corporation of India (FCI) godowns to distributors and from them, to dealers. &amp;quot;Till so far, the dealers used to collect food from the distributors&#039; godowns. In the new system, the transportation cost will come down. Trial run has already been conducted in four blocks of South 24-Parganas where this process has been successful and now we are going to introduce this system in a full-fledged manner,&amp;quot; Mullick said. &lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
Also, the food department wants to introduce a special food package for the tea garden labourers of North Bengal. &amp;quot;I will visit the tea gardens in Darjeeling and Jalpaiguri this month to look into the matter,&amp;quot; the food minister said. &lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
The food department has already appointed one official in each of the three districts of Jangalmahal - Bankura, Purulia and West Midnapore - for thorough inspection of how the PDS was conducted in the districts. &lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
The shortage of staff in the food department in the city and districts is also another area of concern. The department will be working on the process to increase staff strength. According to present estimates, there is 56% staff shortage in the districts and 40% in the city. &lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;/div&gt;&#039;,
	&#039;credit_writer&#039; =&gt; &#039;The Times of India, 22 June, 2011, http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/kolkata-/Grand-plans-for-overhaul-of-PDS/articleshow/8944531.cms&#039;,
	&#039;article_img&#039; =&gt; &#039;&#039;,
	&#039;article_img_thumb&#039; =&gt; &#039;&#039;,
	&#039;status&#039; =&gt; (int) 1,
	&#039;show_on_home&#039; =&gt; (int) 1,
	&#039;lang&#039; =&gt; &#039;EN&#039;,
	&#039;category_id&#039; =&gt; (int) 16,
	&#039;tag_keyword&#039; =&gt; &#039;&#039;,
	&#039;seo_url&#039; =&gt; &#039;grand-plans-for-overhaul-of-pds-by-suman-chakraborti-8572&#039;,
	&#039;meta_title&#039; =&gt; null,
	&#039;meta_keywords&#039; =&gt; null,
	&#039;meta_description&#039; =&gt; null,
	&#039;noindex&#039; =&gt; (int) 0,
	&#039;publish_date&#039; =&gt; object(Cake\I18n\FrozenDate) {},
	&#039;most_visit_section_id&#039; =&gt; null,
	&#039;article_big_img&#039; =&gt; null,
	&#039;liveid&#039; =&gt; (int) 8572,
	&#039;created&#039; =&gt; object(Cake\I18n\FrozenTime) {},
	&#039;modified&#039; =&gt; object(Cake\I18n\FrozenTime) {},
	&#039;edate&#039; =&gt; &#039;&#039;,
	&#039;tags&#039; =&gt; [
		(int) 0 =&gt; object(Cake\ORM\Entity) {},
		(int) 1 =&gt; object(Cake\ORM\Entity) {}
	],
	&#039;category&#039; =&gt; object(App\Model\Entity\Category) {},
	&#039;[new]&#039; =&gt; false,
	&#039;[accessible]&#039; =&gt; [
		&#039;*&#039; =&gt; true,
		&#039;id&#039; =&gt; false
	],
	&#039;[dirty]&#039; =&gt; [],
	&#039;[original]&#039; =&gt; [],
	&#039;[virtual]&#039; =&gt; [],
	&#039;[hasErrors]&#039; =&gt; false,
	&#039;[errors]&#039; =&gt; [],
	&#039;[invalid]&#039; =&gt; [],
	&#039;[repository]&#039; =&gt; &#039;Articles&#039;

}
$articleid = (int) 8471
$metaTitle = &#039;LATEST NEWS UPDATES | Grand plans for overhaul of PDS by Suman Chakraborti&#039;
$metaKeywords = &#039;PDS,Food Security&#039;
$metaDesc = &#039;

The state food department has drawn up elaborate plans to develop the infrastructure of the public distribution system (PDS) following chief minister Mamata Banerjee&#039;s visit to Khadya Bhavan last week. 

During the visit, the chief minister asked that a committee...&#039;
$disp = &#039;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div align=&quot;justify&quot;&gt;The state food department has drawn up elaborate plans to develop the infrastructure of the public distribution system (PDS) following chief minister Mamata Banerjee&#039;s visit to Khadya Bhavan last week. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;During the visit, the chief minister asked that a committee comprising trade union members be formed and that they come up with suggestions on how to improve the infrastructure of the PDS scheme and evict corruption from the system. A day after that, food minister Jyotipriya Mullick sat down with the union members to discuss the issue. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&amp;quot;The union members all agreed with the chief minister&#039;s view that the PDS system needs a thorough modernisation. We have chalked up a plan which will be submitted to the chief minister,&amp;quot; Mullick said. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The food minister said that at present, the department does not have a computerised data bank system. &amp;quot;I sat down with industries and IT minister Partha Chatterjee along with officials of Webel and Wipro to discuss this matter. We will instal six computers in Khadya Bhavan and four fax machines. A monitoring and vigilance cell will also be set up to supervise the PDS system,&amp;quot; said Mullick. It has also been decided that the food minister will sit with the unions at least once a month to discuss on the progress of the PDS. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;A suggestions and complaint box is also being set up at Khadya Bhavan. Apart from this, every Monday, the food minister will hold a two-hour session with consumers and dealers to listen to their complaints and grievances. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The minister claimed that crores of fake ration cards are being circulated in the market and if this could be stopped, 1.4 crore more people could benefit from the PDS scheme and the huge amount of food that is getting sold in the open market could be controlled. The department is considering introducing digital ration cards, but it will take around Rs 181 crore to set up the requisite infrastructure. The system is both time-consuming and costly, officials said. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;As of now, the department has already started running trials to distribute food from the Food Corporation of India (FCI) godowns to distributors and from them, to dealers. &amp;quot;Till so far, the dealers used to collect food from the distributors&#039; godowns. In the new system, the transportation cost will come down. Trial run has already been conducted in four blocks of South 24-Parganas where this process has been successful and now we are going to introduce this system in a full-fledged manner,&amp;quot; Mullick said. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Also, the food department wants to introduce a special food package for the tea garden labourers of North Bengal. &amp;quot;I will visit the tea gardens in Darjeeling and Jalpaiguri this month to look into the matter,&amp;quot; the food minister said. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The food department has already appointed one official in each of the three districts of Jangalmahal - Bankura, Purulia and West Midnapore - for thorough inspection of how the PDS was conducted in the districts. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The shortage of staff in the food department in the city and districts is also another area of concern. The department will be working on the process to increase staff strength. According to present estimates, there is 56% staff shortage in the districts and 40% in the city. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&#039;
$lang = &#039;English&#039;
$SITE_URL = &#039;https://im4change.in/&#039;
$site_title = &#039;im4change&#039;
$adminprix = &#039;admin&#039;</pre><pre class="stack-trace">include - APP/Template/Layout/printlayout.ctp, line 8
Cake\View\View::_evaluate() - CORE/src/View/View.php, line 1413
Cake\View\View::_render() - CORE/src/View/View.php, line 1374
Cake\View\View::renderLayout() - CORE/src/View/View.php, line 927
Cake\View\View::render() - CORE/src/View/View.php, line 885
Cake\Controller\Controller::render() - CORE/src/Controller/Controller.php, line 791
Cake\Http\ActionDispatcher::_invoke() - CORE/src/Http/ActionDispatcher.php, line 126
Cake\Http\ActionDispatcher::dispatch() - CORE/src/Http/ActionDispatcher.php, line 94
Cake\Http\BaseApplication::__invoke() - CORE/src/Http/BaseApplication.php, line 235
Cake\Http\Runner::__invoke() - CORE/src/Http/Runner.php, line 65
Cake\Routing\Middleware\RoutingMiddleware::__invoke() - CORE/src/Routing/Middleware/RoutingMiddleware.php, line 162
Cake\Http\Runner::__invoke() - CORE/src/Http/Runner.php, line 65
Cake\Routing\Middleware\AssetMiddleware::__invoke() - CORE/src/Routing/Middleware/AssetMiddleware.php, line 88
Cake\Http\Runner::__invoke() - CORE/src/Http/Runner.php, line 65
Cake\Error\Middleware\ErrorHandlerMiddleware::__invoke() - CORE/src/Error/Middleware/ErrorHandlerMiddleware.php, line 96
Cake\Http\Runner::__invoke() - CORE/src/Http/Runner.php, line 65
Cake\Http\Runner::run() - CORE/src/Http/Runner.php, line 51</pre></div></pre>latest-news-updates/grand-plans-for-overhaul-of-pds-by-suman-chakraborti-8572.html"/>
    <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"/>
    <link href="https://im4change.in/css/control.css" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css"
          media="all"/>
    <title>LATEST NEWS UPDATES | Grand plans for overhaul of PDS by Suman Chakraborti | Im4change.org</title>
    <meta name="description" content="

The state food department has drawn up elaborate plans to develop the infrastructure of the public distribution system (PDS) following chief minister Mamata Banerjee's visit to Khadya Bhavan last week. 

During the visit, the chief minister asked that a committee..."/>
    <script src="https://im4change.in/js/jquery-1.10.2.js"></script>
    <script type="text/javascript" src="https://im4change.in/js/jquery-migrate.min.js"></script>
    <script language="javascript" type="text/javascript">

        $(document).ready(function () {
            var img = $("img")[0]; // Get my img elem
            var pic_real_width, pic_real_height;
            $("<img/>") // Make in memory copy of image to avoid css issues
                .attr("src", $(img).attr("src"))
                .load(function () {
                    pic_real_width = this.width;   // Note: $(this).width() will not
                    pic_real_height = this.height; // work for in memory images.
                });
        });
    </script>
    <style type="text/css">
        @media screen {
            div.divFooter {
                display: block;
            }
        }

        @media print {
            .printbutton {
                display: none !important;
            }
        }
    </style>
</head>
<body>
<table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" border="0" width="98%" align="center">
    <tr>
        <td class="top_bg">
            <div class="divFooter">
                <img src="https://im4change.in/images/logo1.jpg" height="59" border="0"
                     alt="Resource centre on India's rural distress" style="padding-top:14px;"/>
            </div>

        </td>
    </tr>
    <tr>
        <td id="topspace">&nbsp;</td>
    </tr>

    <tr id="topspace">
        <td>&nbsp;</td>
    </tr>
    <tr>
        <td height="50" style="border-bottom:1px solid #000; padding-top:10px;" class="printbutton">
            <form><input type="button" value=" Print this page "
                         onclick="window.print();return false;"/></form>
        </td>
    </tr>

    <tr>
        <td width="100%">
            <h1 class="news_headlines" style="font-style:normal">
                <strong>Grand plans for overhaul of PDS by Suman Chakraborti</strong></h1>
        </td>
    </tr>
    <tr>
        <td width="100%" style="font-family:Arial, 'Segoe Script', 'Segoe UI', sans-serif, serif"><font size="3">
                <br /><div align="justify">The state food department has drawn up elaborate plans to develop the infrastructure of the public distribution system (PDS) following chief minister Mamata Banerjee's visit to Khadya Bhavan last week. <br /><br />During the visit, the chief minister asked that a committee comprising trade union members be formed and that they come up with suggestions on how to improve the infrastructure of the PDS scheme and evict corruption from the system. A day after that, food minister Jyotipriya Mullick sat down with the union members to discuss the issue. <br /><br />&quot;The union members all agreed with the chief minister's view that the PDS system needs a thorough modernisation. We have chalked up a plan which will be submitted to the chief minister,&quot; Mullick said. <br /><br />The food minister said that at present, the department does not have a computerised data bank system. &quot;I sat down with industries and IT minister Partha Chatterjee along with officials of Webel and Wipro to discuss this matter. We will instal six computers in Khadya Bhavan and four fax machines. A monitoring and vigilance cell will also be set up to supervise the PDS system,&quot; said Mullick. It has also been decided that the food minister will sit with the unions at least once a month to discuss on the progress of the PDS. <br /><br />A suggestions and complaint box is also being set up at Khadya Bhavan. Apart from this, every Monday, the food minister will hold a two-hour session with consumers and dealers to listen to their complaints and grievances. <br /><br />The minister claimed that crores of fake ration cards are being circulated in the market and if this could be stopped, 1.4 crore more people could benefit from the PDS scheme and the huge amount of food that is getting sold in the open market could be controlled. The department is considering introducing digital ration cards, but it will take around Rs 181 crore to set up the requisite infrastructure. The system is both time-consuming and costly, officials said. <br /><br />As of now, the department has already started running trials to distribute food from the Food Corporation of India (FCI) godowns to distributors and from them, to dealers. &quot;Till so far, the dealers used to collect food from the distributors' godowns. In the new system, the transportation cost will come down. Trial run has already been conducted in four blocks of South 24-Parganas where this process has been successful and now we are going to introduce this system in a full-fledged manner,&quot; Mullick said. <br /><br />Also, the food department wants to introduce a special food package for the tea garden labourers of North Bengal. &quot;I will visit the tea gardens in Darjeeling and Jalpaiguri this month to look into the matter,&quot; the food minister said. <br /><br />The food department has already appointed one official in each of the three districts of Jangalmahal - Bankura, Purulia and West Midnapore - for thorough inspection of how the PDS was conducted in the districts. <br /><br />The shortage of staff in the food department in the city and districts is also another area of concern. The department will be working on the process to increase staff strength. According to present estimates, there is 56% staff shortage in the districts and 40% in the city. <br /><br /></div>               </font>
        </td>
    </tr>
    <tr>
        <td>&nbsp;</td>
    </tr>

    <tr>
        <td height="50" style="border-top:1px solid #000; border-bottom:1px solid #000;padding-top:10px;">
            <form><input type="button" value=" Print this page "
                         onclick="window.print();return false;"/></form>
        </td>
    </tr>
</table></body>
</html>'

}
$maxBufferLength = (int) 8192
$file = '/home/brlfuser/public_html/vendor/cakephp/cakephp/src/Error/Debugger.php'
$line = (int) 853
$message = 'Unable to emit headers. Headers sent in file=/home/brlfuser/public_html/vendor/cakephp/cakephp/src/Error/Debugger.php line=853'
Cake\Http\ResponseEmitter::emit() - CORE/src/Http/ResponseEmitter.php, line 48
Cake\Http\Server::emit() - CORE/src/Http/Server.php, line 141
[main] - ROOT/webroot/index.php, line 39

Warning (2): Cannot modify header information - headers already sent by (output started at /home/brlfuser/public_html/vendor/cakephp/cakephp/src/Error/Debugger.php:853) [CORE/src/Http/ResponseEmitter.php, line 148]
Code Context
            $response->getStatusCode(),

            ($reasonPhrase ? ' ' . $reasonPhrase : '')

        ));
$response = object(Cake\Http\Response) {

	'status' => (int) 200,
	'contentType' => 'text/html',
	'headers' => [
		'Content-Type' => [
			[maximum depth reached]
		]
	],
	'file' => null,
	'fileRange' => [],
	'cookies' => object(Cake\Http\Cookie\CookieCollection) {},
	'cacheDirectives' => [],
	'body' => '<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN"
        "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
<head>
    <link rel="canonical" href="https://im4change.in/<pre class="cake-error"><a href="javascript:void(0);" onclick="document.getElementById('cakeErr680523d164cf6-trace').style.display = (document.getElementById('cakeErr680523d164cf6-trace').style.display == 'none' ? '' : 'none');"><b>Notice</b> (8)</a>: Undefined variable: urlPrefix [<b>APP/Template/Layout/printlayout.ctp</b>, line <b>8</b>]<div id="cakeErr680523d164cf6-trace" class="cake-stack-trace" style="display: none;"><a href="javascript:void(0);" onclick="document.getElementById('cakeErr680523d164cf6-code').style.display = (document.getElementById('cakeErr680523d164cf6-code').style.display == 'none' ? '' : 'none')">Code</a> <a href="javascript:void(0);" onclick="document.getElementById('cakeErr680523d164cf6-context').style.display = (document.getElementById('cakeErr680523d164cf6-context').style.display == 'none' ? '' : 'none')">Context</a><pre id="cakeErr680523d164cf6-code" class="cake-code-dump" style="display: none;"><code><span style="color: #000000"><span style="color: #0000BB"></span><span style="color: #007700">&lt;</span><span style="color: #0000BB">head</span><span style="color: #007700">&gt;
</span></span></code>
<span class="code-highlight"><code><span style="color: #000000">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&lt;link&nbsp;rel="canonical"&nbsp;href="<span style="color: #0000BB">&lt;?php&nbsp;</span><span style="color: #007700">echo&nbsp;</span><span style="color: #0000BB">Configure</span><span style="color: #007700">::</span><span style="color: #0000BB">read</span><span style="color: #007700">(</span><span style="color: #DD0000">'SITE_URL'</span><span style="color: #007700">);&nbsp;</span><span style="color: #0000BB">?&gt;&lt;?php&nbsp;</span><span style="color: #007700">echo&nbsp;</span><span style="color: #0000BB">$urlPrefix</span><span style="color: #007700">;</span><span style="color: #0000BB">?&gt;&lt;?php&nbsp;</span><span style="color: #007700">echo&nbsp;</span><span style="color: #0000BB">$article_current</span><span style="color: #007700">-&gt;</span><span style="color: #0000BB">category</span><span style="color: #007700">-&gt;</span><span style="color: #0000BB">slug</span><span style="color: #007700">;&nbsp;</span><span style="color: #0000BB">?&gt;</span>/<span style="color: #0000BB">&lt;?php&nbsp;</span><span style="color: #007700">echo&nbsp;</span><span style="color: #0000BB">$article_current</span><span style="color: #007700">-&gt;</span><span style="color: #0000BB">seo_url</span><span style="color: #007700">;&nbsp;</span><span style="color: #0000BB">?&gt;</span>.html"/&gt;
</span></code></span>
<code><span style="color: #000000"><span style="color: #0000BB">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;</span><span style="color: #007700">&lt;</span><span style="color: #0000BB">meta&nbsp;http</span><span style="color: #007700">-</span><span style="color: #0000BB">equiv</span><span style="color: #007700">=</span><span style="color: #DD0000">"Content-Type"&nbsp;</span><span style="color: #0000BB">content</span><span style="color: #007700">=</span><span style="color: #DD0000">"text/html;&nbsp;charset=utf-8"</span><span style="color: #007700">/&gt;
</span></span></code></pre><pre id="cakeErr680523d164cf6-context" class="cake-context" style="display: none;">$viewFile = &#039;/home/brlfuser/public_html/src/Template/Layout/printlayout.ctp&#039;
$dataForView = [
	&#039;article_current&#039; =&gt; object(App\Model\Entity\Article) {

		&#039;id&#039; =&gt; (int) 8471,
		&#039;title&#039; =&gt; &#039;Grand plans for overhaul of PDS by Suman Chakraborti&#039;,
		&#039;subheading&#039; =&gt; &#039;&#039;,
		&#039;description&#039; =&gt; &#039;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;div align=&quot;justify&quot;&gt;
The state food department has drawn up elaborate plans to develop the infrastructure of the public distribution system (PDS) following chief minister Mamata Banerjee&#039;s visit to Khadya Bhavan last week. &lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
During the visit, the chief minister asked that a committee comprising trade union members be formed and that they come up with suggestions on how to improve the infrastructure of the PDS scheme and evict corruption from the system. A day after that, food minister Jyotipriya Mullick sat down with the union members to discuss the issue. &lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;quot;The union members all agreed with the chief minister&#039;s view that the PDS system needs a thorough modernisation. We have chalked up a plan which will be submitted to the chief minister,&amp;quot; Mullick said. &lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
The food minister said that at present, the department does not have a computerised data bank system. &amp;quot;I sat down with industries and IT minister Partha Chatterjee along with officials of Webel and Wipro to discuss this matter. We will instal six computers in Khadya Bhavan and four fax machines. A monitoring and vigilance cell will also be set up to supervise the PDS system,&amp;quot; said Mullick. It has also been decided that the food minister will sit with the unions at least once a month to discuss on the progress of the PDS. &lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
A suggestions and complaint box is also being set up at Khadya Bhavan. Apart from this, every Monday, the food minister will hold a two-hour session with consumers and dealers to listen to their complaints and grievances. &lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
The minister claimed that crores of fake ration cards are being circulated in the market and if this could be stopped, 1.4 crore more people could benefit from the PDS scheme and the huge amount of food that is getting sold in the open market could be controlled. The department is considering introducing digital ration cards, but it will take around Rs 181 crore to set up the requisite infrastructure. The system is both time-consuming and costly, officials said. &lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
As of now, the department has already started running trials to distribute food from the Food Corporation of India (FCI) godowns to distributors and from them, to dealers. &amp;quot;Till so far, the dealers used to collect food from the distributors&#039; godowns. In the new system, the transportation cost will come down. Trial run has already been conducted in four blocks of South 24-Parganas where this process has been successful and now we are going to introduce this system in a full-fledged manner,&amp;quot; Mullick said. &lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
Also, the food department wants to introduce a special food package for the tea garden labourers of North Bengal. &amp;quot;I will visit the tea gardens in Darjeeling and Jalpaiguri this month to look into the matter,&amp;quot; the food minister said. &lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
The food department has already appointed one official in each of the three districts of Jangalmahal - Bankura, Purulia and West Midnapore - for thorough inspection of how the PDS was conducted in the districts. &lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
The shortage of staff in the food department in the city and districts is also another area of concern. The department will be working on the process to increase staff strength. According to present estimates, there is 56% staff shortage in the districts and 40% in the city. &lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;/div&gt;&#039;,
		&#039;credit_writer&#039; =&gt; &#039;The Times of India, 22 June, 2011, http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/kolkata-/Grand-plans-for-overhaul-of-PDS/articleshow/8944531.cms&#039;,
		&#039;article_img&#039; =&gt; &#039;&#039;,
		&#039;article_img_thumb&#039; =&gt; &#039;&#039;,
		&#039;status&#039; =&gt; (int) 1,
		&#039;show_on_home&#039; =&gt; (int) 1,
		&#039;lang&#039; =&gt; &#039;EN&#039;,
		&#039;category_id&#039; =&gt; (int) 16,
		&#039;tag_keyword&#039; =&gt; &#039;&#039;,
		&#039;seo_url&#039; =&gt; &#039;grand-plans-for-overhaul-of-pds-by-suman-chakraborti-8572&#039;,
		&#039;meta_title&#039; =&gt; null,
		&#039;meta_keywords&#039; =&gt; null,
		&#039;meta_description&#039; =&gt; null,
		&#039;noindex&#039; =&gt; (int) 0,
		&#039;publish_date&#039; =&gt; object(Cake\I18n\FrozenDate) {},
		&#039;most_visit_section_id&#039; =&gt; null,
		&#039;article_big_img&#039; =&gt; null,
		&#039;liveid&#039; =&gt; (int) 8572,
		&#039;created&#039; =&gt; object(Cake\I18n\FrozenTime) {},
		&#039;modified&#039; =&gt; object(Cake\I18n\FrozenTime) {},
		&#039;edate&#039; =&gt; &#039;&#039;,
		&#039;tags&#039; =&gt; [
			[maximum depth reached]
		],
		&#039;category&#039; =&gt; object(App\Model\Entity\Category) {},
		&#039;[new]&#039; =&gt; false,
		&#039;[accessible]&#039; =&gt; [
			[maximum depth reached]
		],
		&#039;[dirty]&#039; =&gt; [[maximum depth reached]],
		&#039;[original]&#039; =&gt; [[maximum depth reached]],
		&#039;[virtual]&#039; =&gt; [[maximum depth reached]],
		&#039;[hasErrors]&#039; =&gt; false,
		&#039;[errors]&#039; =&gt; [[maximum depth reached]],
		&#039;[invalid]&#039; =&gt; [[maximum depth reached]],
		&#039;[repository]&#039; =&gt; &#039;Articles&#039;
	
	},
	&#039;articleid&#039; =&gt; (int) 8471,
	&#039;metaTitle&#039; =&gt; &#039;LATEST NEWS UPDATES | Grand plans for overhaul of PDS by Suman Chakraborti&#039;,
	&#039;metaKeywords&#039; =&gt; &#039;PDS,Food Security&#039;,
	&#039;metaDesc&#039; =&gt; &#039;

The state food department has drawn up elaborate plans to develop the infrastructure of the public distribution system (PDS) following chief minister Mamata Banerjee&#039;s visit to Khadya Bhavan last week. 

During the visit, the chief minister asked that a committee...&#039;,
	&#039;disp&#039; =&gt; &#039;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div align=&quot;justify&quot;&gt;The state food department has drawn up elaborate plans to develop the infrastructure of the public distribution system (PDS) following chief minister Mamata Banerjee&#039;s visit to Khadya Bhavan last week. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;During the visit, the chief minister asked that a committee comprising trade union members be formed and that they come up with suggestions on how to improve the infrastructure of the PDS scheme and evict corruption from the system. A day after that, food minister Jyotipriya Mullick sat down with the union members to discuss the issue. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&amp;quot;The union members all agreed with the chief minister&#039;s view that the PDS system needs a thorough modernisation. We have chalked up a plan which will be submitted to the chief minister,&amp;quot; Mullick said. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The food minister said that at present, the department does not have a computerised data bank system. &amp;quot;I sat down with industries and IT minister Partha Chatterjee along with officials of Webel and Wipro to discuss this matter. We will instal six computers in Khadya Bhavan and four fax machines. A monitoring and vigilance cell will also be set up to supervise the PDS system,&amp;quot; said Mullick. It has also been decided that the food minister will sit with the unions at least once a month to discuss on the progress of the PDS. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;A suggestions and complaint box is also being set up at Khadya Bhavan. Apart from this, every Monday, the food minister will hold a two-hour session with consumers and dealers to listen to their complaints and grievances. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The minister claimed that crores of fake ration cards are being circulated in the market and if this could be stopped, 1.4 crore more people could benefit from the PDS scheme and the huge amount of food that is getting sold in the open market could be controlled. The department is considering introducing digital ration cards, but it will take around Rs 181 crore to set up the requisite infrastructure. The system is both time-consuming and costly, officials said. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;As of now, the department has already started running trials to distribute food from the Food Corporation of India (FCI) godowns to distributors and from them, to dealers. &amp;quot;Till so far, the dealers used to collect food from the distributors&#039; godowns. In the new system, the transportation cost will come down. Trial run has already been conducted in four blocks of South 24-Parganas where this process has been successful and now we are going to introduce this system in a full-fledged manner,&amp;quot; Mullick said. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Also, the food department wants to introduce a special food package for the tea garden labourers of North Bengal. &amp;quot;I will visit the tea gardens in Darjeeling and Jalpaiguri this month to look into the matter,&amp;quot; the food minister said. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The food department has already appointed one official in each of the three districts of Jangalmahal - Bankura, Purulia and West Midnapore - for thorough inspection of how the PDS was conducted in the districts. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The shortage of staff in the food department in the city and districts is also another area of concern. The department will be working on the process to increase staff strength. According to present estimates, there is 56% staff shortage in the districts and 40% in the city. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&#039;,
	&#039;lang&#039; =&gt; &#039;English&#039;,
	&#039;SITE_URL&#039; =&gt; &#039;https://im4change.in/&#039;,
	&#039;site_title&#039; =&gt; &#039;im4change&#039;,
	&#039;adminprix&#039; =&gt; &#039;admin&#039;
]
$article_current = object(App\Model\Entity\Article) {

	&#039;id&#039; =&gt; (int) 8471,
	&#039;title&#039; =&gt; &#039;Grand plans for overhaul of PDS by Suman Chakraborti&#039;,
	&#039;subheading&#039; =&gt; &#039;&#039;,
	&#039;description&#039; =&gt; &#039;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;div align=&quot;justify&quot;&gt;
The state food department has drawn up elaborate plans to develop the infrastructure of the public distribution system (PDS) following chief minister Mamata Banerjee&#039;s visit to Khadya Bhavan last week. &lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
During the visit, the chief minister asked that a committee comprising trade union members be formed and that they come up with suggestions on how to improve the infrastructure of the PDS scheme and evict corruption from the system. A day after that, food minister Jyotipriya Mullick sat down with the union members to discuss the issue. &lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;quot;The union members all agreed with the chief minister&#039;s view that the PDS system needs a thorough modernisation. We have chalked up a plan which will be submitted to the chief minister,&amp;quot; Mullick said. &lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
The food minister said that at present, the department does not have a computerised data bank system. &amp;quot;I sat down with industries and IT minister Partha Chatterjee along with officials of Webel and Wipro to discuss this matter. We will instal six computers in Khadya Bhavan and four fax machines. A monitoring and vigilance cell will also be set up to supervise the PDS system,&amp;quot; said Mullick. It has also been decided that the food minister will sit with the unions at least once a month to discuss on the progress of the PDS. &lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
A suggestions and complaint box is also being set up at Khadya Bhavan. Apart from this, every Monday, the food minister will hold a two-hour session with consumers and dealers to listen to their complaints and grievances. &lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
The minister claimed that crores of fake ration cards are being circulated in the market and if this could be stopped, 1.4 crore more people could benefit from the PDS scheme and the huge amount of food that is getting sold in the open market could be controlled. The department is considering introducing digital ration cards, but it will take around Rs 181 crore to set up the requisite infrastructure. The system is both time-consuming and costly, officials said. &lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
As of now, the department has already started running trials to distribute food from the Food Corporation of India (FCI) godowns to distributors and from them, to dealers. &amp;quot;Till so far, the dealers used to collect food from the distributors&#039; godowns. In the new system, the transportation cost will come down. Trial run has already been conducted in four blocks of South 24-Parganas where this process has been successful and now we are going to introduce this system in a full-fledged manner,&amp;quot; Mullick said. &lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
Also, the food department wants to introduce a special food package for the tea garden labourers of North Bengal. &amp;quot;I will visit the tea gardens in Darjeeling and Jalpaiguri this month to look into the matter,&amp;quot; the food minister said. &lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
The food department has already appointed one official in each of the three districts of Jangalmahal - Bankura, Purulia and West Midnapore - for thorough inspection of how the PDS was conducted in the districts. &lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
The shortage of staff in the food department in the city and districts is also another area of concern. The department will be working on the process to increase staff strength. According to present estimates, there is 56% staff shortage in the districts and 40% in the city. &lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;/div&gt;&#039;,
	&#039;credit_writer&#039; =&gt; &#039;The Times of India, 22 June, 2011, http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/kolkata-/Grand-plans-for-overhaul-of-PDS/articleshow/8944531.cms&#039;,
	&#039;article_img&#039; =&gt; &#039;&#039;,
	&#039;article_img_thumb&#039; =&gt; &#039;&#039;,
	&#039;status&#039; =&gt; (int) 1,
	&#039;show_on_home&#039; =&gt; (int) 1,
	&#039;lang&#039; =&gt; &#039;EN&#039;,
	&#039;category_id&#039; =&gt; (int) 16,
	&#039;tag_keyword&#039; =&gt; &#039;&#039;,
	&#039;seo_url&#039; =&gt; &#039;grand-plans-for-overhaul-of-pds-by-suman-chakraborti-8572&#039;,
	&#039;meta_title&#039; =&gt; null,
	&#039;meta_keywords&#039; =&gt; null,
	&#039;meta_description&#039; =&gt; null,
	&#039;noindex&#039; =&gt; (int) 0,
	&#039;publish_date&#039; =&gt; object(Cake\I18n\FrozenDate) {},
	&#039;most_visit_section_id&#039; =&gt; null,
	&#039;article_big_img&#039; =&gt; null,
	&#039;liveid&#039; =&gt; (int) 8572,
	&#039;created&#039; =&gt; object(Cake\I18n\FrozenTime) {},
	&#039;modified&#039; =&gt; object(Cake\I18n\FrozenTime) {},
	&#039;edate&#039; =&gt; &#039;&#039;,
	&#039;tags&#039; =&gt; [
		(int) 0 =&gt; object(Cake\ORM\Entity) {},
		(int) 1 =&gt; object(Cake\ORM\Entity) {}
	],
	&#039;category&#039; =&gt; object(App\Model\Entity\Category) {},
	&#039;[new]&#039; =&gt; false,
	&#039;[accessible]&#039; =&gt; [
		&#039;*&#039; =&gt; true,
		&#039;id&#039; =&gt; false
	],
	&#039;[dirty]&#039; =&gt; [],
	&#039;[original]&#039; =&gt; [],
	&#039;[virtual]&#039; =&gt; [],
	&#039;[hasErrors]&#039; =&gt; false,
	&#039;[errors]&#039; =&gt; [],
	&#039;[invalid]&#039; =&gt; [],
	&#039;[repository]&#039; =&gt; &#039;Articles&#039;

}
$articleid = (int) 8471
$metaTitle = &#039;LATEST NEWS UPDATES | Grand plans for overhaul of PDS by Suman Chakraborti&#039;
$metaKeywords = &#039;PDS,Food Security&#039;
$metaDesc = &#039;

The state food department has drawn up elaborate plans to develop the infrastructure of the public distribution system (PDS) following chief minister Mamata Banerjee&#039;s visit to Khadya Bhavan last week. 

During the visit, the chief minister asked that a committee...&#039;
$disp = &#039;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div align=&quot;justify&quot;&gt;The state food department has drawn up elaborate plans to develop the infrastructure of the public distribution system (PDS) following chief minister Mamata Banerjee&#039;s visit to Khadya Bhavan last week. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;During the visit, the chief minister asked that a committee comprising trade union members be formed and that they come up with suggestions on how to improve the infrastructure of the PDS scheme and evict corruption from the system. A day after that, food minister Jyotipriya Mullick sat down with the union members to discuss the issue. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&amp;quot;The union members all agreed with the chief minister&#039;s view that the PDS system needs a thorough modernisation. We have chalked up a plan which will be submitted to the chief minister,&amp;quot; Mullick said. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The food minister said that at present, the department does not have a computerised data bank system. &amp;quot;I sat down with industries and IT minister Partha Chatterjee along with officials of Webel and Wipro to discuss this matter. We will instal six computers in Khadya Bhavan and four fax machines. A monitoring and vigilance cell will also be set up to supervise the PDS system,&amp;quot; said Mullick. It has also been decided that the food minister will sit with the unions at least once a month to discuss on the progress of the PDS. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;A suggestions and complaint box is also being set up at Khadya Bhavan. Apart from this, every Monday, the food minister will hold a two-hour session with consumers and dealers to listen to their complaints and grievances. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The minister claimed that crores of fake ration cards are being circulated in the market and if this could be stopped, 1.4 crore more people could benefit from the PDS scheme and the huge amount of food that is getting sold in the open market could be controlled. The department is considering introducing digital ration cards, but it will take around Rs 181 crore to set up the requisite infrastructure. The system is both time-consuming and costly, officials said. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;As of now, the department has already started running trials to distribute food from the Food Corporation of India (FCI) godowns to distributors and from them, to dealers. &amp;quot;Till so far, the dealers used to collect food from the distributors&#039; godowns. In the new system, the transportation cost will come down. Trial run has already been conducted in four blocks of South 24-Parganas where this process has been successful and now we are going to introduce this system in a full-fledged manner,&amp;quot; Mullick said. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Also, the food department wants to introduce a special food package for the tea garden labourers of North Bengal. &amp;quot;I will visit the tea gardens in Darjeeling and Jalpaiguri this month to look into the matter,&amp;quot; the food minister said. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The food department has already appointed one official in each of the three districts of Jangalmahal - Bankura, Purulia and West Midnapore - for thorough inspection of how the PDS was conducted in the districts. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The shortage of staff in the food department in the city and districts is also another area of concern. The department will be working on the process to increase staff strength. According to present estimates, there is 56% staff shortage in the districts and 40% in the city. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&#039;
$lang = &#039;English&#039;
$SITE_URL = &#039;https://im4change.in/&#039;
$site_title = &#039;im4change&#039;
$adminprix = &#039;admin&#039;</pre><pre class="stack-trace">include - APP/Template/Layout/printlayout.ctp, line 8
Cake\View\View::_evaluate() - CORE/src/View/View.php, line 1413
Cake\View\View::_render() - CORE/src/View/View.php, line 1374
Cake\View\View::renderLayout() - CORE/src/View/View.php, line 927
Cake\View\View::render() - CORE/src/View/View.php, line 885
Cake\Controller\Controller::render() - CORE/src/Controller/Controller.php, line 791
Cake\Http\ActionDispatcher::_invoke() - CORE/src/Http/ActionDispatcher.php, line 126
Cake\Http\ActionDispatcher::dispatch() - CORE/src/Http/ActionDispatcher.php, line 94
Cake\Http\BaseApplication::__invoke() - CORE/src/Http/BaseApplication.php, line 235
Cake\Http\Runner::__invoke() - CORE/src/Http/Runner.php, line 65
Cake\Routing\Middleware\RoutingMiddleware::__invoke() - CORE/src/Routing/Middleware/RoutingMiddleware.php, line 162
Cake\Http\Runner::__invoke() - CORE/src/Http/Runner.php, line 65
Cake\Routing\Middleware\AssetMiddleware::__invoke() - CORE/src/Routing/Middleware/AssetMiddleware.php, line 88
Cake\Http\Runner::__invoke() - CORE/src/Http/Runner.php, line 65
Cake\Error\Middleware\ErrorHandlerMiddleware::__invoke() - CORE/src/Error/Middleware/ErrorHandlerMiddleware.php, line 96
Cake\Http\Runner::__invoke() - CORE/src/Http/Runner.php, line 65
Cake\Http\Runner::run() - CORE/src/Http/Runner.php, line 51</pre></div></pre>latest-news-updates/grand-plans-for-overhaul-of-pds-by-suman-chakraborti-8572.html"/>
    <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"/>
    <link href="https://im4change.in/css/control.css" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css"
          media="all"/>
    <title>LATEST NEWS UPDATES | Grand plans for overhaul of PDS by Suman Chakraborti | Im4change.org</title>
    <meta name="description" content="

The state food department has drawn up elaborate plans to develop the infrastructure of the public distribution system (PDS) following chief minister Mamata Banerjee's visit to Khadya Bhavan last week. 

During the visit, the chief minister asked that a committee..."/>
    <script src="https://im4change.in/js/jquery-1.10.2.js"></script>
    <script type="text/javascript" src="https://im4change.in/js/jquery-migrate.min.js"></script>
    <script language="javascript" type="text/javascript">

        $(document).ready(function () {
            var img = $("img")[0]; // Get my img elem
            var pic_real_width, pic_real_height;
            $("<img/>") // Make in memory copy of image to avoid css issues
                .attr("src", $(img).attr("src"))
                .load(function () {
                    pic_real_width = this.width;   // Note: $(this).width() will not
                    pic_real_height = this.height; // work for in memory images.
                });
        });
    </script>
    <style type="text/css">
        @media screen {
            div.divFooter {
                display: block;
            }
        }

        @media print {
            .printbutton {
                display: none !important;
            }
        }
    </style>
</head>
<body>
<table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" border="0" width="98%" align="center">
    <tr>
        <td class="top_bg">
            <div class="divFooter">
                <img src="https://im4change.in/images/logo1.jpg" height="59" border="0"
                     alt="Resource centre on India's rural distress" style="padding-top:14px;"/>
            </div>

        </td>
    </tr>
    <tr>
        <td id="topspace">&nbsp;</td>
    </tr>

    <tr id="topspace">
        <td>&nbsp;</td>
    </tr>
    <tr>
        <td height="50" style="border-bottom:1px solid #000; padding-top:10px;" class="printbutton">
            <form><input type="button" value=" Print this page "
                         onclick="window.print();return false;"/></form>
        </td>
    </tr>

    <tr>
        <td width="100%">
            <h1 class="news_headlines" style="font-style:normal">
                <strong>Grand plans for overhaul of PDS by Suman Chakraborti</strong></h1>
        </td>
    </tr>
    <tr>
        <td width="100%" style="font-family:Arial, 'Segoe Script', 'Segoe UI', sans-serif, serif"><font size="3">
                <br /><div align="justify">The state food department has drawn up elaborate plans to develop the infrastructure of the public distribution system (PDS) following chief minister Mamata Banerjee's visit to Khadya Bhavan last week. <br /><br />During the visit, the chief minister asked that a committee comprising trade union members be formed and that they come up with suggestions on how to improve the infrastructure of the PDS scheme and evict corruption from the system. A day after that, food minister Jyotipriya Mullick sat down with the union members to discuss the issue. <br /><br />&quot;The union members all agreed with the chief minister's view that the PDS system needs a thorough modernisation. We have chalked up a plan which will be submitted to the chief minister,&quot; Mullick said. <br /><br />The food minister said that at present, the department does not have a computerised data bank system. &quot;I sat down with industries and IT minister Partha Chatterjee along with officials of Webel and Wipro to discuss this matter. We will instal six computers in Khadya Bhavan and four fax machines. A monitoring and vigilance cell will also be set up to supervise the PDS system,&quot; said Mullick. It has also been decided that the food minister will sit with the unions at least once a month to discuss on the progress of the PDS. <br /><br />A suggestions and complaint box is also being set up at Khadya Bhavan. Apart from this, every Monday, the food minister will hold a two-hour session with consumers and dealers to listen to their complaints and grievances. <br /><br />The minister claimed that crores of fake ration cards are being circulated in the market and if this could be stopped, 1.4 crore more people could benefit from the PDS scheme and the huge amount of food that is getting sold in the open market could be controlled. The department is considering introducing digital ration cards, but it will take around Rs 181 crore to set up the requisite infrastructure. The system is both time-consuming and costly, officials said. <br /><br />As of now, the department has already started running trials to distribute food from the Food Corporation of India (FCI) godowns to distributors and from them, to dealers. &quot;Till so far, the dealers used to collect food from the distributors' godowns. In the new system, the transportation cost will come down. Trial run has already been conducted in four blocks of South 24-Parganas where this process has been successful and now we are going to introduce this system in a full-fledged manner,&quot; Mullick said. <br /><br />Also, the food department wants to introduce a special food package for the tea garden labourers of North Bengal. &quot;I will visit the tea gardens in Darjeeling and Jalpaiguri this month to look into the matter,&quot; the food minister said. <br /><br />The food department has already appointed one official in each of the three districts of Jangalmahal - Bankura, Purulia and West Midnapore - for thorough inspection of how the PDS was conducted in the districts. <br /><br />The shortage of staff in the food department in the city and districts is also another area of concern. The department will be working on the process to increase staff strength. According to present estimates, there is 56% staff shortage in the districts and 40% in the city. <br /><br /></div>               </font>
        </td>
    </tr>
    <tr>
        <td>&nbsp;</td>
    </tr>

    <tr>
        <td height="50" style="border-top:1px solid #000; border-bottom:1px solid #000;padding-top:10px;">
            <form><input type="button" value=" Print this page "
                         onclick="window.print();return false;"/></form>
        </td>
    </tr>
</table></body>
</html>'

}
$reasonPhrase = 'OK'
header - [internal], line ??
Cake\Http\ResponseEmitter::emitStatusLine() - CORE/src/Http/ResponseEmitter.php, line 148
Cake\Http\ResponseEmitter::emit() - CORE/src/Http/ResponseEmitter.php, line 54
Cake\Http\Server::emit() - CORE/src/Http/Server.php, line 141
[main] - ROOT/webroot/index.php, line 39

Warning (2): Cannot modify header information - headers already sent by (output started at /home/brlfuser/public_html/vendor/cakephp/cakephp/src/Error/Debugger.php:853) [CORE/src/Http/ResponseEmitter.php, line 181]
Code Context
                    $value

                ), $first);

                $first = false;
$response = object(Cake\Http\Response) {

	'status' => (int) 200,
	'contentType' => 'text/html',
	'headers' => [
		'Content-Type' => [
			[maximum depth reached]
		]
	],
	'file' => null,
	'fileRange' => [],
	'cookies' => object(Cake\Http\Cookie\CookieCollection) {},
	'cacheDirectives' => [],
	'body' => '<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN"
        "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
<head>
    <link rel="canonical" href="https://im4change.in/<pre class="cake-error"><a href="javascript:void(0);" onclick="document.getElementById('cakeErr680523d164cf6-trace').style.display = (document.getElementById('cakeErr680523d164cf6-trace').style.display == 'none' ? '' : 'none');"><b>Notice</b> (8)</a>: Undefined variable: urlPrefix [<b>APP/Template/Layout/printlayout.ctp</b>, line <b>8</b>]<div id="cakeErr680523d164cf6-trace" class="cake-stack-trace" style="display: none;"><a href="javascript:void(0);" onclick="document.getElementById('cakeErr680523d164cf6-code').style.display = (document.getElementById('cakeErr680523d164cf6-code').style.display == 'none' ? '' : 'none')">Code</a> <a href="javascript:void(0);" onclick="document.getElementById('cakeErr680523d164cf6-context').style.display = (document.getElementById('cakeErr680523d164cf6-context').style.display == 'none' ? '' : 'none')">Context</a><pre id="cakeErr680523d164cf6-code" class="cake-code-dump" style="display: none;"><code><span style="color: #000000"><span style="color: #0000BB"></span><span style="color: #007700">&lt;</span><span style="color: #0000BB">head</span><span style="color: #007700">&gt;
</span></span></code>
<span class="code-highlight"><code><span style="color: #000000">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&lt;link&nbsp;rel="canonical"&nbsp;href="<span style="color: #0000BB">&lt;?php&nbsp;</span><span style="color: #007700">echo&nbsp;</span><span style="color: #0000BB">Configure</span><span style="color: #007700">::</span><span style="color: #0000BB">read</span><span style="color: #007700">(</span><span style="color: #DD0000">'SITE_URL'</span><span style="color: #007700">);&nbsp;</span><span style="color: #0000BB">?&gt;&lt;?php&nbsp;</span><span style="color: #007700">echo&nbsp;</span><span style="color: #0000BB">$urlPrefix</span><span style="color: #007700">;</span><span style="color: #0000BB">?&gt;&lt;?php&nbsp;</span><span style="color: #007700">echo&nbsp;</span><span style="color: #0000BB">$article_current</span><span style="color: #007700">-&gt;</span><span style="color: #0000BB">category</span><span style="color: #007700">-&gt;</span><span style="color: #0000BB">slug</span><span style="color: #007700">;&nbsp;</span><span style="color: #0000BB">?&gt;</span>/<span style="color: #0000BB">&lt;?php&nbsp;</span><span style="color: #007700">echo&nbsp;</span><span style="color: #0000BB">$article_current</span><span style="color: #007700">-&gt;</span><span style="color: #0000BB">seo_url</span><span style="color: #007700">;&nbsp;</span><span style="color: #0000BB">?&gt;</span>.html"/&gt;
</span></code></span>
<code><span style="color: #000000"><span style="color: #0000BB">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;</span><span style="color: #007700">&lt;</span><span style="color: #0000BB">meta&nbsp;http</span><span style="color: #007700">-</span><span style="color: #0000BB">equiv</span><span style="color: #007700">=</span><span style="color: #DD0000">"Content-Type"&nbsp;</span><span style="color: #0000BB">content</span><span style="color: #007700">=</span><span style="color: #DD0000">"text/html;&nbsp;charset=utf-8"</span><span style="color: #007700">/&gt;
</span></span></code></pre><pre id="cakeErr680523d164cf6-context" class="cake-context" style="display: none;">$viewFile = &#039;/home/brlfuser/public_html/src/Template/Layout/printlayout.ctp&#039;
$dataForView = [
	&#039;article_current&#039; =&gt; object(App\Model\Entity\Article) {

		&#039;id&#039; =&gt; (int) 8471,
		&#039;title&#039; =&gt; &#039;Grand plans for overhaul of PDS by Suman Chakraborti&#039;,
		&#039;subheading&#039; =&gt; &#039;&#039;,
		&#039;description&#039; =&gt; &#039;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;div align=&quot;justify&quot;&gt;
The state food department has drawn up elaborate plans to develop the infrastructure of the public distribution system (PDS) following chief minister Mamata Banerjee&#039;s visit to Khadya Bhavan last week. &lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
During the visit, the chief minister asked that a committee comprising trade union members be formed and that they come up with suggestions on how to improve the infrastructure of the PDS scheme and evict corruption from the system. A day after that, food minister Jyotipriya Mullick sat down with the union members to discuss the issue. &lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;quot;The union members all agreed with the chief minister&#039;s view that the PDS system needs a thorough modernisation. We have chalked up a plan which will be submitted to the chief minister,&amp;quot; Mullick said. &lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
The food minister said that at present, the department does not have a computerised data bank system. &amp;quot;I sat down with industries and IT minister Partha Chatterjee along with officials of Webel and Wipro to discuss this matter. We will instal six computers in Khadya Bhavan and four fax machines. A monitoring and vigilance cell will also be set up to supervise the PDS system,&amp;quot; said Mullick. It has also been decided that the food minister will sit with the unions at least once a month to discuss on the progress of the PDS. &lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
A suggestions and complaint box is also being set up at Khadya Bhavan. Apart from this, every Monday, the food minister will hold a two-hour session with consumers and dealers to listen to their complaints and grievances. &lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
The minister claimed that crores of fake ration cards are being circulated in the market and if this could be stopped, 1.4 crore more people could benefit from the PDS scheme and the huge amount of food that is getting sold in the open market could be controlled. The department is considering introducing digital ration cards, but it will take around Rs 181 crore to set up the requisite infrastructure. The system is both time-consuming and costly, officials said. &lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
As of now, the department has already started running trials to distribute food from the Food Corporation of India (FCI) godowns to distributors and from them, to dealers. &amp;quot;Till so far, the dealers used to collect food from the distributors&#039; godowns. In the new system, the transportation cost will come down. Trial run has already been conducted in four blocks of South 24-Parganas where this process has been successful and now we are going to introduce this system in a full-fledged manner,&amp;quot; Mullick said. &lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
Also, the food department wants to introduce a special food package for the tea garden labourers of North Bengal. &amp;quot;I will visit the tea gardens in Darjeeling and Jalpaiguri this month to look into the matter,&amp;quot; the food minister said. &lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
The food department has already appointed one official in each of the three districts of Jangalmahal - Bankura, Purulia and West Midnapore - for thorough inspection of how the PDS was conducted in the districts. &lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
The shortage of staff in the food department in the city and districts is also another area of concern. The department will be working on the process to increase staff strength. According to present estimates, there is 56% staff shortage in the districts and 40% in the city. &lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;/div&gt;&#039;,
		&#039;credit_writer&#039; =&gt; &#039;The Times of India, 22 June, 2011, http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/kolkata-/Grand-plans-for-overhaul-of-PDS/articleshow/8944531.cms&#039;,
		&#039;article_img&#039; =&gt; &#039;&#039;,
		&#039;article_img_thumb&#039; =&gt; &#039;&#039;,
		&#039;status&#039; =&gt; (int) 1,
		&#039;show_on_home&#039; =&gt; (int) 1,
		&#039;lang&#039; =&gt; &#039;EN&#039;,
		&#039;category_id&#039; =&gt; (int) 16,
		&#039;tag_keyword&#039; =&gt; &#039;&#039;,
		&#039;seo_url&#039; =&gt; &#039;grand-plans-for-overhaul-of-pds-by-suman-chakraborti-8572&#039;,
		&#039;meta_title&#039; =&gt; null,
		&#039;meta_keywords&#039; =&gt; null,
		&#039;meta_description&#039; =&gt; null,
		&#039;noindex&#039; =&gt; (int) 0,
		&#039;publish_date&#039; =&gt; object(Cake\I18n\FrozenDate) {},
		&#039;most_visit_section_id&#039; =&gt; null,
		&#039;article_big_img&#039; =&gt; null,
		&#039;liveid&#039; =&gt; (int) 8572,
		&#039;created&#039; =&gt; object(Cake\I18n\FrozenTime) {},
		&#039;modified&#039; =&gt; object(Cake\I18n\FrozenTime) {},
		&#039;edate&#039; =&gt; &#039;&#039;,
		&#039;tags&#039; =&gt; [
			[maximum depth reached]
		],
		&#039;category&#039; =&gt; object(App\Model\Entity\Category) {},
		&#039;[new]&#039; =&gt; false,
		&#039;[accessible]&#039; =&gt; [
			[maximum depth reached]
		],
		&#039;[dirty]&#039; =&gt; [[maximum depth reached]],
		&#039;[original]&#039; =&gt; [[maximum depth reached]],
		&#039;[virtual]&#039; =&gt; [[maximum depth reached]],
		&#039;[hasErrors]&#039; =&gt; false,
		&#039;[errors]&#039; =&gt; [[maximum depth reached]],
		&#039;[invalid]&#039; =&gt; [[maximum depth reached]],
		&#039;[repository]&#039; =&gt; &#039;Articles&#039;
	
	},
	&#039;articleid&#039; =&gt; (int) 8471,
	&#039;metaTitle&#039; =&gt; &#039;LATEST NEWS UPDATES | Grand plans for overhaul of PDS by Suman Chakraborti&#039;,
	&#039;metaKeywords&#039; =&gt; &#039;PDS,Food Security&#039;,
	&#039;metaDesc&#039; =&gt; &#039;

The state food department has drawn up elaborate plans to develop the infrastructure of the public distribution system (PDS) following chief minister Mamata Banerjee&#039;s visit to Khadya Bhavan last week. 

During the visit, the chief minister asked that a committee...&#039;,
	&#039;disp&#039; =&gt; &#039;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div align=&quot;justify&quot;&gt;The state food department has drawn up elaborate plans to develop the infrastructure of the public distribution system (PDS) following chief minister Mamata Banerjee&#039;s visit to Khadya Bhavan last week. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;During the visit, the chief minister asked that a committee comprising trade union members be formed and that they come up with suggestions on how to improve the infrastructure of the PDS scheme and evict corruption from the system. A day after that, food minister Jyotipriya Mullick sat down with the union members to discuss the issue. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&amp;quot;The union members all agreed with the chief minister&#039;s view that the PDS system needs a thorough modernisation. We have chalked up a plan which will be submitted to the chief minister,&amp;quot; Mullick said. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The food minister said that at present, the department does not have a computerised data bank system. &amp;quot;I sat down with industries and IT minister Partha Chatterjee along with officials of Webel and Wipro to discuss this matter. We will instal six computers in Khadya Bhavan and four fax machines. A monitoring and vigilance cell will also be set up to supervise the PDS system,&amp;quot; said Mullick. It has also been decided that the food minister will sit with the unions at least once a month to discuss on the progress of the PDS. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;A suggestions and complaint box is also being set up at Khadya Bhavan. Apart from this, every Monday, the food minister will hold a two-hour session with consumers and dealers to listen to their complaints and grievances. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The minister claimed that crores of fake ration cards are being circulated in the market and if this could be stopped, 1.4 crore more people could benefit from the PDS scheme and the huge amount of food that is getting sold in the open market could be controlled. The department is considering introducing digital ration cards, but it will take around Rs 181 crore to set up the requisite infrastructure. The system is both time-consuming and costly, officials said. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;As of now, the department has already started running trials to distribute food from the Food Corporation of India (FCI) godowns to distributors and from them, to dealers. &amp;quot;Till so far, the dealers used to collect food from the distributors&#039; godowns. In the new system, the transportation cost will come down. Trial run has already been conducted in four blocks of South 24-Parganas where this process has been successful and now we are going to introduce this system in a full-fledged manner,&amp;quot; Mullick said. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Also, the food department wants to introduce a special food package for the tea garden labourers of North Bengal. &amp;quot;I will visit the tea gardens in Darjeeling and Jalpaiguri this month to look into the matter,&amp;quot; the food minister said. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The food department has already appointed one official in each of the three districts of Jangalmahal - Bankura, Purulia and West Midnapore - for thorough inspection of how the PDS was conducted in the districts. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The shortage of staff in the food department in the city and districts is also another area of concern. The department will be working on the process to increase staff strength. According to present estimates, there is 56% staff shortage in the districts and 40% in the city. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&#039;,
	&#039;lang&#039; =&gt; &#039;English&#039;,
	&#039;SITE_URL&#039; =&gt; &#039;https://im4change.in/&#039;,
	&#039;site_title&#039; =&gt; &#039;im4change&#039;,
	&#039;adminprix&#039; =&gt; &#039;admin&#039;
]
$article_current = object(App\Model\Entity\Article) {

	&#039;id&#039; =&gt; (int) 8471,
	&#039;title&#039; =&gt; &#039;Grand plans for overhaul of PDS by Suman Chakraborti&#039;,
	&#039;subheading&#039; =&gt; &#039;&#039;,
	&#039;description&#039; =&gt; &#039;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;div align=&quot;justify&quot;&gt;
The state food department has drawn up elaborate plans to develop the infrastructure of the public distribution system (PDS) following chief minister Mamata Banerjee&#039;s visit to Khadya Bhavan last week. &lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
During the visit, the chief minister asked that a committee comprising trade union members be formed and that they come up with suggestions on how to improve the infrastructure of the PDS scheme and evict corruption from the system. A day after that, food minister Jyotipriya Mullick sat down with the union members to discuss the issue. &lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;quot;The union members all agreed with the chief minister&#039;s view that the PDS system needs a thorough modernisation. We have chalked up a plan which will be submitted to the chief minister,&amp;quot; Mullick said. &lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
The food minister said that at present, the department does not have a computerised data bank system. &amp;quot;I sat down with industries and IT minister Partha Chatterjee along with officials of Webel and Wipro to discuss this matter. We will instal six computers in Khadya Bhavan and four fax machines. A monitoring and vigilance cell will also be set up to supervise the PDS system,&amp;quot; said Mullick. It has also been decided that the food minister will sit with the unions at least once a month to discuss on the progress of the PDS. &lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
A suggestions and complaint box is also being set up at Khadya Bhavan. Apart from this, every Monday, the food minister will hold a two-hour session with consumers and dealers to listen to their complaints and grievances. &lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
The minister claimed that crores of fake ration cards are being circulated in the market and if this could be stopped, 1.4 crore more people could benefit from the PDS scheme and the huge amount of food that is getting sold in the open market could be controlled. The department is considering introducing digital ration cards, but it will take around Rs 181 crore to set up the requisite infrastructure. The system is both time-consuming and costly, officials said. &lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
As of now, the department has already started running trials to distribute food from the Food Corporation of India (FCI) godowns to distributors and from them, to dealers. &amp;quot;Till so far, the dealers used to collect food from the distributors&#039; godowns. In the new system, the transportation cost will come down. Trial run has already been conducted in four blocks of South 24-Parganas where this process has been successful and now we are going to introduce this system in a full-fledged manner,&amp;quot; Mullick said. &lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
Also, the food department wants to introduce a special food package for the tea garden labourers of North Bengal. &amp;quot;I will visit the tea gardens in Darjeeling and Jalpaiguri this month to look into the matter,&amp;quot; the food minister said. &lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
The food department has already appointed one official in each of the three districts of Jangalmahal - Bankura, Purulia and West Midnapore - for thorough inspection of how the PDS was conducted in the districts. &lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
The shortage of staff in the food department in the city and districts is also another area of concern. The department will be working on the process to increase staff strength. According to present estimates, there is 56% staff shortage in the districts and 40% in the city. &lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;/div&gt;&#039;,
	&#039;credit_writer&#039; =&gt; &#039;The Times of India, 22 June, 2011, http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/kolkata-/Grand-plans-for-overhaul-of-PDS/articleshow/8944531.cms&#039;,
	&#039;article_img&#039; =&gt; &#039;&#039;,
	&#039;article_img_thumb&#039; =&gt; &#039;&#039;,
	&#039;status&#039; =&gt; (int) 1,
	&#039;show_on_home&#039; =&gt; (int) 1,
	&#039;lang&#039; =&gt; &#039;EN&#039;,
	&#039;category_id&#039; =&gt; (int) 16,
	&#039;tag_keyword&#039; =&gt; &#039;&#039;,
	&#039;seo_url&#039; =&gt; &#039;grand-plans-for-overhaul-of-pds-by-suman-chakraborti-8572&#039;,
	&#039;meta_title&#039; =&gt; null,
	&#039;meta_keywords&#039; =&gt; null,
	&#039;meta_description&#039; =&gt; null,
	&#039;noindex&#039; =&gt; (int) 0,
	&#039;publish_date&#039; =&gt; object(Cake\I18n\FrozenDate) {},
	&#039;most_visit_section_id&#039; =&gt; null,
	&#039;article_big_img&#039; =&gt; null,
	&#039;liveid&#039; =&gt; (int) 8572,
	&#039;created&#039; =&gt; object(Cake\I18n\FrozenTime) {},
	&#039;modified&#039; =&gt; object(Cake\I18n\FrozenTime) {},
	&#039;edate&#039; =&gt; &#039;&#039;,
	&#039;tags&#039; =&gt; [
		(int) 0 =&gt; object(Cake\ORM\Entity) {},
		(int) 1 =&gt; object(Cake\ORM\Entity) {}
	],
	&#039;category&#039; =&gt; object(App\Model\Entity\Category) {},
	&#039;[new]&#039; =&gt; false,
	&#039;[accessible]&#039; =&gt; [
		&#039;*&#039; =&gt; true,
		&#039;id&#039; =&gt; false
	],
	&#039;[dirty]&#039; =&gt; [],
	&#039;[original]&#039; =&gt; [],
	&#039;[virtual]&#039; =&gt; [],
	&#039;[hasErrors]&#039; =&gt; false,
	&#039;[errors]&#039; =&gt; [],
	&#039;[invalid]&#039; =&gt; [],
	&#039;[repository]&#039; =&gt; &#039;Articles&#039;

}
$articleid = (int) 8471
$metaTitle = &#039;LATEST NEWS UPDATES | Grand plans for overhaul of PDS by Suman Chakraborti&#039;
$metaKeywords = &#039;PDS,Food Security&#039;
$metaDesc = &#039;

The state food department has drawn up elaborate plans to develop the infrastructure of the public distribution system (PDS) following chief minister Mamata Banerjee&#039;s visit to Khadya Bhavan last week. 

During the visit, the chief minister asked that a committee...&#039;
$disp = &#039;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div align=&quot;justify&quot;&gt;The state food department has drawn up elaborate plans to develop the infrastructure of the public distribution system (PDS) following chief minister Mamata Banerjee&#039;s visit to Khadya Bhavan last week. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;During the visit, the chief minister asked that a committee comprising trade union members be formed and that they come up with suggestions on how to improve the infrastructure of the PDS scheme and evict corruption from the system. A day after that, food minister Jyotipriya Mullick sat down with the union members to discuss the issue. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&amp;quot;The union members all agreed with the chief minister&#039;s view that the PDS system needs a thorough modernisation. We have chalked up a plan which will be submitted to the chief minister,&amp;quot; Mullick said. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The food minister said that at present, the department does not have a computerised data bank system. &amp;quot;I sat down with industries and IT minister Partha Chatterjee along with officials of Webel and Wipro to discuss this matter. We will instal six computers in Khadya Bhavan and four fax machines. A monitoring and vigilance cell will also be set up to supervise the PDS system,&amp;quot; said Mullick. It has also been decided that the food minister will sit with the unions at least once a month to discuss on the progress of the PDS. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;A suggestions and complaint box is also being set up at Khadya Bhavan. Apart from this, every Monday, the food minister will hold a two-hour session with consumers and dealers to listen to their complaints and grievances. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The minister claimed that crores of fake ration cards are being circulated in the market and if this could be stopped, 1.4 crore more people could benefit from the PDS scheme and the huge amount of food that is getting sold in the open market could be controlled. The department is considering introducing digital ration cards, but it will take around Rs 181 crore to set up the requisite infrastructure. The system is both time-consuming and costly, officials said. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;As of now, the department has already started running trials to distribute food from the Food Corporation of India (FCI) godowns to distributors and from them, to dealers. &amp;quot;Till so far, the dealers used to collect food from the distributors&#039; godowns. In the new system, the transportation cost will come down. Trial run has already been conducted in four blocks of South 24-Parganas where this process has been successful and now we are going to introduce this system in a full-fledged manner,&amp;quot; Mullick said. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Also, the food department wants to introduce a special food package for the tea garden labourers of North Bengal. &amp;quot;I will visit the tea gardens in Darjeeling and Jalpaiguri this month to look into the matter,&amp;quot; the food minister said. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The food department has already appointed one official in each of the three districts of Jangalmahal - Bankura, Purulia and West Midnapore - for thorough inspection of how the PDS was conducted in the districts. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The shortage of staff in the food department in the city and districts is also another area of concern. The department will be working on the process to increase staff strength. According to present estimates, there is 56% staff shortage in the districts and 40% in the city. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&#039;
$lang = &#039;English&#039;
$SITE_URL = &#039;https://im4change.in/&#039;
$site_title = &#039;im4change&#039;
$adminprix = &#039;admin&#039;</pre><pre class="stack-trace">include - APP/Template/Layout/printlayout.ctp, line 8
Cake\View\View::_evaluate() - CORE/src/View/View.php, line 1413
Cake\View\View::_render() - CORE/src/View/View.php, line 1374
Cake\View\View::renderLayout() - CORE/src/View/View.php, line 927
Cake\View\View::render() - CORE/src/View/View.php, line 885
Cake\Controller\Controller::render() - CORE/src/Controller/Controller.php, line 791
Cake\Http\ActionDispatcher::_invoke() - CORE/src/Http/ActionDispatcher.php, line 126
Cake\Http\ActionDispatcher::dispatch() - CORE/src/Http/ActionDispatcher.php, line 94
Cake\Http\BaseApplication::__invoke() - CORE/src/Http/BaseApplication.php, line 235
Cake\Http\Runner::__invoke() - CORE/src/Http/Runner.php, line 65
Cake\Routing\Middleware\RoutingMiddleware::__invoke() - CORE/src/Routing/Middleware/RoutingMiddleware.php, line 162
Cake\Http\Runner::__invoke() - CORE/src/Http/Runner.php, line 65
Cake\Routing\Middleware\AssetMiddleware::__invoke() - CORE/src/Routing/Middleware/AssetMiddleware.php, line 88
Cake\Http\Runner::__invoke() - CORE/src/Http/Runner.php, line 65
Cake\Error\Middleware\ErrorHandlerMiddleware::__invoke() - CORE/src/Error/Middleware/ErrorHandlerMiddleware.php, line 96
Cake\Http\Runner::__invoke() - CORE/src/Http/Runner.php, line 65
Cake\Http\Runner::run() - CORE/src/Http/Runner.php, line 51</pre></div></pre>latest-news-updates/grand-plans-for-overhaul-of-pds-by-suman-chakraborti-8572.html"/>
    <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"/>
    <link href="https://im4change.in/css/control.css" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css"
          media="all"/>
    <title>LATEST NEWS UPDATES | Grand plans for overhaul of PDS by Suman Chakraborti | Im4change.org</title>
    <meta name="description" content="

The state food department has drawn up elaborate plans to develop the infrastructure of the public distribution system (PDS) following chief minister Mamata Banerjee's visit to Khadya Bhavan last week. 

During the visit, the chief minister asked that a committee..."/>
    <script src="https://im4change.in/js/jquery-1.10.2.js"></script>
    <script type="text/javascript" src="https://im4change.in/js/jquery-migrate.min.js"></script>
    <script language="javascript" type="text/javascript">

        $(document).ready(function () {
            var img = $("img")[0]; // Get my img elem
            var pic_real_width, pic_real_height;
            $("<img/>") // Make in memory copy of image to avoid css issues
                .attr("src", $(img).attr("src"))
                .load(function () {
                    pic_real_width = this.width;   // Note: $(this).width() will not
                    pic_real_height = this.height; // work for in memory images.
                });
        });
    </script>
    <style type="text/css">
        @media screen {
            div.divFooter {
                display: block;
            }
        }

        @media print {
            .printbutton {
                display: none !important;
            }
        }
    </style>
</head>
<body>
<table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" border="0" width="98%" align="center">
    <tr>
        <td class="top_bg">
            <div class="divFooter">
                <img src="https://im4change.in/images/logo1.jpg" height="59" border="0"
                     alt="Resource centre on India's rural distress" style="padding-top:14px;"/>
            </div>

        </td>
    </tr>
    <tr>
        <td id="topspace">&nbsp;</td>
    </tr>

    <tr id="topspace">
        <td>&nbsp;</td>
    </tr>
    <tr>
        <td height="50" style="border-bottom:1px solid #000; padding-top:10px;" class="printbutton">
            <form><input type="button" value=" Print this page "
                         onclick="window.print();return false;"/></form>
        </td>
    </tr>

    <tr>
        <td width="100%">
            <h1 class="news_headlines" style="font-style:normal">
                <strong>Grand plans for overhaul of PDS by Suman Chakraborti</strong></h1>
        </td>
    </tr>
    <tr>
        <td width="100%" style="font-family:Arial, 'Segoe Script', 'Segoe UI', sans-serif, serif"><font size="3">
                <br /><div align="justify">The state food department has drawn up elaborate plans to develop the infrastructure of the public distribution system (PDS) following chief minister Mamata Banerjee's visit to Khadya Bhavan last week. <br /><br />During the visit, the chief minister asked that a committee comprising trade union members be formed and that they come up with suggestions on how to improve the infrastructure of the PDS scheme and evict corruption from the system. A day after that, food minister Jyotipriya Mullick sat down with the union members to discuss the issue. <br /><br />&quot;The union members all agreed with the chief minister's view that the PDS system needs a thorough modernisation. We have chalked up a plan which will be submitted to the chief minister,&quot; Mullick said. <br /><br />The food minister said that at present, the department does not have a computerised data bank system. &quot;I sat down with industries and IT minister Partha Chatterjee along with officials of Webel and Wipro to discuss this matter. We will instal six computers in Khadya Bhavan and four fax machines. A monitoring and vigilance cell will also be set up to supervise the PDS system,&quot; said Mullick. It has also been decided that the food minister will sit with the unions at least once a month to discuss on the progress of the PDS. <br /><br />A suggestions and complaint box is also being set up at Khadya Bhavan. Apart from this, every Monday, the food minister will hold a two-hour session with consumers and dealers to listen to their complaints and grievances. <br /><br />The minister claimed that crores of fake ration cards are being circulated in the market and if this could be stopped, 1.4 crore more people could benefit from the PDS scheme and the huge amount of food that is getting sold in the open market could be controlled. The department is considering introducing digital ration cards, but it will take around Rs 181 crore to set up the requisite infrastructure. The system is both time-consuming and costly, officials said. <br /><br />As of now, the department has already started running trials to distribute food from the Food Corporation of India (FCI) godowns to distributors and from them, to dealers. &quot;Till so far, the dealers used to collect food from the distributors' godowns. In the new system, the transportation cost will come down. Trial run has already been conducted in four blocks of South 24-Parganas where this process has been successful and now we are going to introduce this system in a full-fledged manner,&quot; Mullick said. <br /><br />Also, the food department wants to introduce a special food package for the tea garden labourers of North Bengal. &quot;I will visit the tea gardens in Darjeeling and Jalpaiguri this month to look into the matter,&quot; the food minister said. <br /><br />The food department has already appointed one official in each of the three districts of Jangalmahal - Bankura, Purulia and West Midnapore - for thorough inspection of how the PDS was conducted in the districts. <br /><br />The shortage of staff in the food department in the city and districts is also another area of concern. The department will be working on the process to increase staff strength. According to present estimates, there is 56% staff shortage in the districts and 40% in the city. <br /><br /></div>               </font>
        </td>
    </tr>
    <tr>
        <td>&nbsp;</td>
    </tr>

    <tr>
        <td height="50" style="border-top:1px solid #000; border-bottom:1px solid #000;padding-top:10px;">
            <form><input type="button" value=" Print this page "
                         onclick="window.print();return false;"/></form>
        </td>
    </tr>
</table></body>
</html>'

}
$cookies = []
$values = [
	(int) 0 => 'text/html; charset=UTF-8'
]
$name = 'Content-Type'
$first = true
$value = 'text/html; charset=UTF-8'
header - [internal], line ??
Cake\Http\ResponseEmitter::emitHeaders() - CORE/src/Http/ResponseEmitter.php, line 181
Cake\Http\ResponseEmitter::emit() - CORE/src/Http/ResponseEmitter.php, line 55
Cake\Http\Server::emit() - CORE/src/Http/Server.php, line 141
[main] - ROOT/webroot/index.php, line 39

<head>

    <link rel="canonical" href="<?php echo Configure::read('SITE_URL'); ?><?php echo $urlPrefix;?><?php echo $article_current->category->slug; ?>/<?php echo $article_current->seo_url; ?>.html"/>

    <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"/>

$viewFile = '/home/brlfuser/public_html/src/Template/Layout/printlayout.ctp'
$dataForView = [
	'article_current' => object(App\Model\Entity\Article) {

		'id' => (int) 8471,
		'title' => 'Grand plans for overhaul of PDS by Suman Chakraborti',
		'subheading' => '',
		'description' => '<br />
<div align="justify">
The state food department has drawn up elaborate plans to develop the infrastructure of the public distribution system (PDS) following chief minister Mamata Banerjee's visit to Khadya Bhavan last week. <br />
<br />
During the visit, the chief minister asked that a committee comprising trade union members be formed and that they come up with suggestions on how to improve the infrastructure of the PDS scheme and evict corruption from the system. A day after that, food minister Jyotipriya Mullick sat down with the union members to discuss the issue. <br />
<br />
&quot;The union members all agreed with the chief minister's view that the PDS system needs a thorough modernisation. We have chalked up a plan which will be submitted to the chief minister,&quot; Mullick said. <br />
<br />
The food minister said that at present, the department does not have a computerised data bank system. &quot;I sat down with industries and IT minister Partha Chatterjee along with officials of Webel and Wipro to discuss this matter. We will instal six computers in Khadya Bhavan and four fax machines. A monitoring and vigilance cell will also be set up to supervise the PDS system,&quot; said Mullick. It has also been decided that the food minister will sit with the unions at least once a month to discuss on the progress of the PDS. <br />
<br />
A suggestions and complaint box is also being set up at Khadya Bhavan. Apart from this, every Monday, the food minister will hold a two-hour session with consumers and dealers to listen to their complaints and grievances. <br />
<br />
The minister claimed that crores of fake ration cards are being circulated in the market and if this could be stopped, 1.4 crore more people could benefit from the PDS scheme and the huge amount of food that is getting sold in the open market could be controlled. The department is considering introducing digital ration cards, but it will take around Rs 181 crore to set up the requisite infrastructure. The system is both time-consuming and costly, officials said. <br />
<br />
As of now, the department has already started running trials to distribute food from the Food Corporation of India (FCI) godowns to distributors and from them, to dealers. &quot;Till so far, the dealers used to collect food from the distributors' godowns. In the new system, the transportation cost will come down. Trial run has already been conducted in four blocks of South 24-Parganas where this process has been successful and now we are going to introduce this system in a full-fledged manner,&quot; Mullick said. <br />
<br />
Also, the food department wants to introduce a special food package for the tea garden labourers of North Bengal. &quot;I will visit the tea gardens in Darjeeling and Jalpaiguri this month to look into the matter,&quot; the food minister said. <br />
<br />
The food department has already appointed one official in each of the three districts of Jangalmahal - Bankura, Purulia and West Midnapore - for thorough inspection of how the PDS was conducted in the districts. <br />
<br />
The shortage of staff in the food department in the city and districts is also another area of concern. The department will be working on the process to increase staff strength. According to present estimates, there is 56% staff shortage in the districts and 40% in the city. <br />
<br />
</div>',
		'credit_writer' => 'The Times of India, 22 June, 2011, http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/kolkata-/Grand-plans-for-overhaul-of-PDS/articleshow/8944531.cms',
		'article_img' => '',
		'article_img_thumb' => '',
		'status' => (int) 1,
		'show_on_home' => (int) 1,
		'lang' => 'EN',
		'category_id' => (int) 16,
		'tag_keyword' => '',
		'seo_url' => 'grand-plans-for-overhaul-of-pds-by-suman-chakraborti-8572',
		'meta_title' => null,
		'meta_keywords' => null,
		'meta_description' => null,
		'noindex' => (int) 0,
		'publish_date' => object(Cake\I18n\FrozenDate) {},
		'most_visit_section_id' => null,
		'article_big_img' => null,
		'liveid' => (int) 8572,
		'created' => object(Cake\I18n\FrozenTime) {},
		'modified' => object(Cake\I18n\FrozenTime) {},
		'edate' => '',
		'tags' => [
			[maximum depth reached]
		],
		'category' => object(App\Model\Entity\Category) {},
		'[new]' => false,
		'[accessible]' => [
			[maximum depth reached]
		],
		'[dirty]' => [[maximum depth reached]],
		'[original]' => [[maximum depth reached]],
		'[virtual]' => [[maximum depth reached]],
		'[hasErrors]' => false,
		'[errors]' => [[maximum depth reached]],
		'[invalid]' => [[maximum depth reached]],
		'[repository]' => 'Articles'
	
	},
	'articleid' => (int) 8471,
	'metaTitle' => 'LATEST NEWS UPDATES | Grand plans for overhaul of PDS by Suman Chakraborti',
	'metaKeywords' => 'PDS,Food Security',
	'metaDesc' => '

The state food department has drawn up elaborate plans to develop the infrastructure of the public distribution system (PDS) following chief minister Mamata Banerjee's visit to Khadya Bhavan last week. 

During the visit, the chief minister asked that a committee...',
	'disp' => '<br /><div align="justify">The state food department has drawn up elaborate plans to develop the infrastructure of the public distribution system (PDS) following chief minister Mamata Banerjee's visit to Khadya Bhavan last week. <br /><br />During the visit, the chief minister asked that a committee comprising trade union members be formed and that they come up with suggestions on how to improve the infrastructure of the PDS scheme and evict corruption from the system. A day after that, food minister Jyotipriya Mullick sat down with the union members to discuss the issue. <br /><br />&quot;The union members all agreed with the chief minister's view that the PDS system needs a thorough modernisation. We have chalked up a plan which will be submitted to the chief minister,&quot; Mullick said. <br /><br />The food minister said that at present, the department does not have a computerised data bank system. &quot;I sat down with industries and IT minister Partha Chatterjee along with officials of Webel and Wipro to discuss this matter. We will instal six computers in Khadya Bhavan and four fax machines. A monitoring and vigilance cell will also be set up to supervise the PDS system,&quot; said Mullick. It has also been decided that the food minister will sit with the unions at least once a month to discuss on the progress of the PDS. <br /><br />A suggestions and complaint box is also being set up at Khadya Bhavan. Apart from this, every Monday, the food minister will hold a two-hour session with consumers and dealers to listen to their complaints and grievances. <br /><br />The minister claimed that crores of fake ration cards are being circulated in the market and if this could be stopped, 1.4 crore more people could benefit from the PDS scheme and the huge amount of food that is getting sold in the open market could be controlled. The department is considering introducing digital ration cards, but it will take around Rs 181 crore to set up the requisite infrastructure. The system is both time-consuming and costly, officials said. <br /><br />As of now, the department has already started running trials to distribute food from the Food Corporation of India (FCI) godowns to distributors and from them, to dealers. &quot;Till so far, the dealers used to collect food from the distributors' godowns. In the new system, the transportation cost will come down. Trial run has already been conducted in four blocks of South 24-Parganas where this process has been successful and now we are going to introduce this system in a full-fledged manner,&quot; Mullick said. <br /><br />Also, the food department wants to introduce a special food package for the tea garden labourers of North Bengal. &quot;I will visit the tea gardens in Darjeeling and Jalpaiguri this month to look into the matter,&quot; the food minister said. <br /><br />The food department has already appointed one official in each of the three districts of Jangalmahal - Bankura, Purulia and West Midnapore - for thorough inspection of how the PDS was conducted in the districts. <br /><br />The shortage of staff in the food department in the city and districts is also another area of concern. The department will be working on the process to increase staff strength. According to present estimates, there is 56% staff shortage in the districts and 40% in the city. <br /><br /></div>',
	'lang' => 'English',
	'SITE_URL' => 'https://im4change.in/',
	'site_title' => 'im4change',
	'adminprix' => 'admin'
]
$article_current = object(App\Model\Entity\Article) {

	'id' => (int) 8471,
	'title' => 'Grand plans for overhaul of PDS by Suman Chakraborti',
	'subheading' => '',
	'description' => '<br />
<div align="justify">
The state food department has drawn up elaborate plans to develop the infrastructure of the public distribution system (PDS) following chief minister Mamata Banerjee's visit to Khadya Bhavan last week. <br />
<br />
During the visit, the chief minister asked that a committee comprising trade union members be formed and that they come up with suggestions on how to improve the infrastructure of the PDS scheme and evict corruption from the system. A day after that, food minister Jyotipriya Mullick sat down with the union members to discuss the issue. <br />
<br />
&quot;The union members all agreed with the chief minister's view that the PDS system needs a thorough modernisation. We have chalked up a plan which will be submitted to the chief minister,&quot; Mullick said. <br />
<br />
The food minister said that at present, the department does not have a computerised data bank system. &quot;I sat down with industries and IT minister Partha Chatterjee along with officials of Webel and Wipro to discuss this matter. We will instal six computers in Khadya Bhavan and four fax machines. A monitoring and vigilance cell will also be set up to supervise the PDS system,&quot; said Mullick. It has also been decided that the food minister will sit with the unions at least once a month to discuss on the progress of the PDS. <br />
<br />
A suggestions and complaint box is also being set up at Khadya Bhavan. Apart from this, every Monday, the food minister will hold a two-hour session with consumers and dealers to listen to their complaints and grievances. <br />
<br />
The minister claimed that crores of fake ration cards are being circulated in the market and if this could be stopped, 1.4 crore more people could benefit from the PDS scheme and the huge amount of food that is getting sold in the open market could be controlled. The department is considering introducing digital ration cards, but it will take around Rs 181 crore to set up the requisite infrastructure. The system is both time-consuming and costly, officials said. <br />
<br />
As of now, the department has already started running trials to distribute food from the Food Corporation of India (FCI) godowns to distributors and from them, to dealers. &quot;Till so far, the dealers used to collect food from the distributors' godowns. In the new system, the transportation cost will come down. Trial run has already been conducted in four blocks of South 24-Parganas where this process has been successful and now we are going to introduce this system in a full-fledged manner,&quot; Mullick said. <br />
<br />
Also, the food department wants to introduce a special food package for the tea garden labourers of North Bengal. &quot;I will visit the tea gardens in Darjeeling and Jalpaiguri this month to look into the matter,&quot; the food minister said. <br />
<br />
The food department has already appointed one official in each of the three districts of Jangalmahal - Bankura, Purulia and West Midnapore - for thorough inspection of how the PDS was conducted in the districts. <br />
<br />
The shortage of staff in the food department in the city and districts is also another area of concern. The department will be working on the process to increase staff strength. According to present estimates, there is 56% staff shortage in the districts and 40% in the city. <br />
<br />
</div>',
	'credit_writer' => 'The Times of India, 22 June, 2011, http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/kolkata-/Grand-plans-for-overhaul-of-PDS/articleshow/8944531.cms',
	'article_img' => '',
	'article_img_thumb' => '',
	'status' => (int) 1,
	'show_on_home' => (int) 1,
	'lang' => 'EN',
	'category_id' => (int) 16,
	'tag_keyword' => '',
	'seo_url' => 'grand-plans-for-overhaul-of-pds-by-suman-chakraborti-8572',
	'meta_title' => null,
	'meta_keywords' => null,
	'meta_description' => null,
	'noindex' => (int) 0,
	'publish_date' => object(Cake\I18n\FrozenDate) {},
	'most_visit_section_id' => null,
	'article_big_img' => null,
	'liveid' => (int) 8572,
	'created' => object(Cake\I18n\FrozenTime) {},
	'modified' => object(Cake\I18n\FrozenTime) {},
	'edate' => '',
	'tags' => [
		(int) 0 => object(Cake\ORM\Entity) {},
		(int) 1 => object(Cake\ORM\Entity) {}
	],
	'category' => object(App\Model\Entity\Category) {},
	'[new]' => false,
	'[accessible]' => [
		'*' => true,
		'id' => false
	],
	'[dirty]' => [],
	'[original]' => [],
	'[virtual]' => [],
	'[hasErrors]' => false,
	'[errors]' => [],
	'[invalid]' => [],
	'[repository]' => 'Articles'

}
$articleid = (int) 8471
$metaTitle = 'LATEST NEWS UPDATES | Grand plans for overhaul of PDS by Suman Chakraborti'
$metaKeywords = 'PDS,Food Security'
$metaDesc = '

The state food department has drawn up elaborate plans to develop the infrastructure of the public distribution system (PDS) following chief minister Mamata Banerjee's visit to Khadya Bhavan last week. 

During the visit, the chief minister asked that a committee...'
$disp = '<br /><div align="justify">The state food department has drawn up elaborate plans to develop the infrastructure of the public distribution system (PDS) following chief minister Mamata Banerjee's visit to Khadya Bhavan last week. <br /><br />During the visit, the chief minister asked that a committee comprising trade union members be formed and that they come up with suggestions on how to improve the infrastructure of the PDS scheme and evict corruption from the system. A day after that, food minister Jyotipriya Mullick sat down with the union members to discuss the issue. <br /><br />&quot;The union members all agreed with the chief minister's view that the PDS system needs a thorough modernisation. We have chalked up a plan which will be submitted to the chief minister,&quot; Mullick said. <br /><br />The food minister said that at present, the department does not have a computerised data bank system. &quot;I sat down with industries and IT minister Partha Chatterjee along with officials of Webel and Wipro to discuss this matter. We will instal six computers in Khadya Bhavan and four fax machines. A monitoring and vigilance cell will also be set up to supervise the PDS system,&quot; said Mullick. It has also been decided that the food minister will sit with the unions at least once a month to discuss on the progress of the PDS. <br /><br />A suggestions and complaint box is also being set up at Khadya Bhavan. Apart from this, every Monday, the food minister will hold a two-hour session with consumers and dealers to listen to their complaints and grievances. <br /><br />The minister claimed that crores of fake ration cards are being circulated in the market and if this could be stopped, 1.4 crore more people could benefit from the PDS scheme and the huge amount of food that is getting sold in the open market could be controlled. The department is considering introducing digital ration cards, but it will take around Rs 181 crore to set up the requisite infrastructure. The system is both time-consuming and costly, officials said. <br /><br />As of now, the department has already started running trials to distribute food from the Food Corporation of India (FCI) godowns to distributors and from them, to dealers. &quot;Till so far, the dealers used to collect food from the distributors' godowns. In the new system, the transportation cost will come down. Trial run has already been conducted in four blocks of South 24-Parganas where this process has been successful and now we are going to introduce this system in a full-fledged manner,&quot; Mullick said. <br /><br />Also, the food department wants to introduce a special food package for the tea garden labourers of North Bengal. &quot;I will visit the tea gardens in Darjeeling and Jalpaiguri this month to look into the matter,&quot; the food minister said. <br /><br />The food department has already appointed one official in each of the three districts of Jangalmahal - Bankura, Purulia and West Midnapore - for thorough inspection of how the PDS was conducted in the districts. <br /><br />The shortage of staff in the food department in the city and districts is also another area of concern. The department will be working on the process to increase staff strength. According to present estimates, there is 56% staff shortage in the districts and 40% in the city. <br /><br /></div>'
$lang = 'English'
$SITE_URL = 'https://im4change.in/'
$site_title = 'im4change'
$adminprix = 'admin'

include - APP/Template/Layout/printlayout.ctp, line 8
Cake\View\View::_evaluate() - CORE/src/View/View.php, line 1413
Cake\View\View::_render() - CORE/src/View/View.php, line 1374
Cake\View\View::renderLayout() - CORE/src/View/View.php, line 927
Cake\View\View::render() - CORE/src/View/View.php, line 885
Cake\Controller\Controller::render() - CORE/src/Controller/Controller.php, line 791
Cake\Http\ActionDispatcher::_invoke() - CORE/src/Http/ActionDispatcher.php, line 126
Cake\Http\ActionDispatcher::dispatch() - CORE/src/Http/ActionDispatcher.php, line 94
Cake\Http\BaseApplication::__invoke() - CORE/src/Http/BaseApplication.php, line 235
Cake\Http\Runner::__invoke() - CORE/src/Http/Runner.php, line 65
Cake\Routing\Middleware\RoutingMiddleware::__invoke() - CORE/src/Routing/Middleware/RoutingMiddleware.php, line 162
Cake\Http\Runner::__invoke() - CORE/src/Http/Runner.php, line 65
Cake\Routing\Middleware\AssetMiddleware::__invoke() - CORE/src/Routing/Middleware/AssetMiddleware.php, line 88
Cake\Http\Runner::__invoke() - CORE/src/Http/Runner.php, line 65
Cake\Error\Middleware\ErrorHandlerMiddleware::__invoke() - CORE/src/Error/Middleware/ErrorHandlerMiddleware.php, line 96
Cake\Http\Runner::__invoke() - CORE/src/Http/Runner.php, line 65
Cake\Http\Runner::run() - CORE/src/Http/Runner.php, line 51

Grand plans for overhaul of PDS by Suman Chakraborti

The state food department has drawn up elaborate plans to develop the infrastructure of the public distribution system (PDS) following chief minister Mamata Banerjee's visit to Khadya Bhavan last week. During the visit, the chief minister asked that a committee comprising trade union members be formed and that they come up with suggestions on how to improve the infrastructure of the PDS scheme and evict corruption from the system. A day after that, food minister Jyotipriya Mullick sat down with the union members to discuss the issue. "The union members all agreed with the chief minister's view that the PDS system needs a thorough modernisation. We have chalked up a plan which will be submitted to the chief minister," Mullick said. The food minister said that at present, the department does not have a computerised data bank system. "I sat down with industries and IT minister Partha Chatterjee along with officials of Webel and Wipro to discuss this matter. We will instal six computers in Khadya Bhavan and four fax machines. A monitoring and vigilance cell will also be set up to supervise the PDS system," said Mullick. It has also been decided that the food minister will sit with the unions at least once a month to discuss on the progress of the PDS. A suggestions and complaint box is also being set up at Khadya Bhavan. Apart from this, every Monday, the food minister will hold a two-hour session with consumers and dealers to listen to their complaints and grievances. The minister claimed that crores of fake ration cards are being circulated in the market and if this could be stopped, 1.4 crore more people could benefit from the PDS scheme and the huge amount of food that is getting sold in the open market could be controlled. The department is considering introducing digital ration cards, but it will take around Rs 181 crore to set up the requisite infrastructure. The system is both time-consuming and costly, officials said. As of now, the department has already started running trials to distribute food from the Food Corporation of India (FCI) godowns to distributors and from them, to dealers. "Till so far, the dealers used to collect food from the distributors' godowns. In the new system, the transportation cost will come down. Trial run has already been conducted in four blocks of South 24-Parganas where this process has been successful and now we are going to introduce this system in a full-fledged manner," Mullick said. Also, the food department wants to introduce a special food package for the tea garden labourers of North Bengal. "I will visit the tea gardens in Darjeeling and Jalpaiguri this month to look into the matter," the food minister said. The food department has already appointed one official in each of the three districts of Jangalmahal - Bankura, Purulia and West Midnapore - for thorough inspection of how the PDS was conducted in the districts. The shortage of staff in the food department in the city and districts is also another area of concern. The department will be working on the process to increase staff strength. According to present estimates, there is 56% staff shortage in the districts and 40% in the city.