Haryana has set up country’s first ‘Grain ATM’ as a pilot project in Gurugram. The ATM will provide relief to the consumers who wait in long queues to get their ration outside the shops.
- As per Haryana’s Deputy Chief Minister, Dushyant Chautala, with the installation of Grain ATMs, all the complaints regarding waiting time and right measurement of ration quantity will be redressed.
- The purpose of installing this machine is to ensure that the right quantity should reach the right beneficiary with minimum hassle.
- It is an automatic machine which works like a bank ATM.
- Installed under the World Food Programme of the United Nations, it is called Automated, Multi Commodity, Grain Dispensing Machine. It can dispense up to 70 kg of grains within five to seven minutes at a time.
