All FCI depots will have online operations by next March: Paswan

 
New Delhi, July 1 (KNN) All the food storage depots of Food Corporation of India (FCI) in the country will have all their operation online by March 2016, said Ram Vilas Paswan, Minister of Consumer Affairs, Food & Public Distribution during the launch of Digital India Week.
 
The Government has taken important initiative to implement depot online system across all food storage depots of FCI in the country, Paswan said.
 
He said that depot online project is a part of overall vision of Government of India to transform the food distribution supply chain in the country.
 
It would facilitate process automation, standardization and efficiency of the management of food grain distribution and would enable real time monitoring of operations and timely data reporting. 
 
The FCI has already initiated the process for implementing depot online project and as a part of the process, a contest was held on MyGov platform for designing a logo and tagline for depot online system.
 
The contest was aimed at obtaining the most innovative logo and a tagline capturing the essence of this prestigious initiative.  Huge response was received and more than 500 contestants participated. (KNN Bureau)