Free & Open Source Media: HIS EXCELLENCY GOVERNER OF ORISSA, SRI. MURLIDHAR BHANDARE APPRAISED OF THE BIOMETRIC BASED TPDS

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Aug 24, 2010

HIS EXCELLENCY GOVERNER OF ORISSA, SRI. MURLIDHAR BHANDARE APPRAISED OF THE BIOMETRIC BASED TPDS

The team of offcials from civil supplies dept.govt. of orissa led by joint Secreatary Sri. G. C. Nayak ( who is ex-PD DRDA Rayagada) and Civil supplies officer, rayagada, Sri. Bibekananda Korkora and World Food Programme,led by Sri. B. K. Bal, IAS, met the governer of Orissa,his excellency, Sri. Murlidhar Bhandare on 23.08.2010 and appraised him about the biometric based TPDS. Among those who were present were Commissioner-cum-secretary to Governer, Sri. Parag Gupta, IAS.
One retailer from Rayagada Sri. Manoj Patnaik and 3 beneficiaries gave a live demo to the Governer on the PoS ( point of sale) device.The memebers of 4G technologies, Hyderabad , which is the firm providing the IT solutions were also present.
His excellency was highly impressed by this application of IT solutions in strenthening the PDS in the state.

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STATE	ORISSA
DISTRICT	RAYAGADA
DISTRICT FORMED	02/10/1992
NO. OF SUB-DIV.S	02
NO. OF BLOCKS	11
NO. OF THASILS	11
NO. OF TOWNS	04
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