Summary:
The DBT system was a modified subsidy payment system where fertilizer companies will be paid 100% subsidy only after sale of fertilizer to farmers through PoS machines and biometric identification of buyers. The government asked all fertilizer companies to deploy Point of Sale (PoS) devices at all retail points for acknowledging the receipt of fertilizer and issuing receipts to farmers. Ranga Reddy Collector M.
Raghunandan Rao told The Hindu that a dozen fertilizer companies had fixed the PoS machines free of cost at shops in the district. more-inA few fertilizer shops in Telangana and a large number in Andhra Pradesh, besides two other States, have shut down businesses as they did not renew licences after the launch of Aadhaar enabled Fertilizer Distribution System earlier this year. Sources said there are about 6,700 wholesale and retail shops dealing exclusively in fertilizer in Telangana but only 3,650 PoS machines were delivered so far..