Chennai: Even as TVK govt announced a series of measures to increase storage capacity at direct procurement centres (DPC) in the state on Thursday, DMK and TVK locked horns over corruption in DPCs.
Later, Venkatramanan announced that 15 warehouses with a total capacity of 31,000 tonnes will be constructed in 13 districts for storing food grains. The warehouses will be built by Tamil Nadu civil supplies corporation at an estimated cost of Rs 81 crore. The food minister also announced that three modern warehouses will be constructed in Ariyalur, Namakkal and Mettupalayam at an estimated cost of Rs 13.5 crore. The three warehouses together will have the combined storage capacity of 3,400 tonnes.
The food and civil supplies department will also develop an AI-based mobile app to ensure that food grains supplied through PDS shops are of good quality, he said. The state govt will introduce an automatic stock monitoring system in all the warehouses maintained by TN civil supplies corporation using artificial intelligence (AI).