CHANDIGARH: A Central Vigilance Committee headed by Justice D.P.Wadhwa is visiting Narnaul, Bhiwani, Hisar and Rohtak districts of Haryana from November 29 to December 2 to examine the functioning of Targetted Public Distributed System (TPDS). 

While disclosing this here on Friday, a spokesman of the Food and Supplies Department, Haryana said that during its visit, the Committee would hold discussions with the senior officers of the department of Food and Supplies, Food Corporation of India, representatives of Fair Price Shop owners, transporters, Women Self Help Groups, Non Governmental Organisations and consumers, etc. to acquaint themselves with the problems affecting the TPDS in Haryana.
      
He said that the committee would also inspect files relating to appointment of Fair Price Shops dealers and the Commission payable to them; complaint Mechanism, enforcement mechanism; minutes of vigilance committees for the last five years and award of tenders for transportation of food grains, etc.
      
He said that the Committee would specifically focus on mode of appointment of dealers, ideal rate of commission payable to the dealers, modalities as to how the Vigilance Committees already in place could function better and modes as to how there could be transparency in allotment of the food stock to be sold at the shops.
      
The Committee would visit Narnaul on November 29, Bhiwani on November 30, Hisar on December 1 and Rohtak on December 2, he added.
      
The spokesman said that the Committee had been constituted by the Ministry of Consumer Affairs, Food and Public Distribution, Department of Food, Government of India, under the orders of Supreme Court of India to look into the maladies that are affecting the proper functioning of the Public Distribution System and also suggest remedial measures.