IT initiatives crucial in tackling Covid-19, says Khattar

Haryana Chief Minister Manohar Lal Khattar on Tuesday said Information Technology (IT) initiatives undertaken by the State Government have played a pivotal role in enabling assistance and procurement services during the Covid-19 pandemic.

He said that the state government has issued Distress Ration Tokens through e-PDS to the people in distress who would be provided free ration for three months.

In a video conferencing chaired by Union Minister for Electronics, Information Technology and Communications, Ravi Shankar Prasad from New Delhi with the Chief Ministers, IT Ministers and Secretaries of all the states, Khattar informed that the Parivar Pehchan Patra (PPP) program being run by the Haryana Government is a State-wide program under which all benefits, services and schemes provided by the Government can be linked. The program was launched last year with a database of over 32 lakh families and a golden database of 12.5 lakh families has been prepared so far.