Ludhiana, April 29 -- A training session was on Tuesday organised for inspectors and field staff from the food and civil supplies department to familiarise them with the newly introduced QR codes on wheat bags, real-time data entry and verification protocols at mandis and godowns.

QR codes, a pilot project of the central government that allows tracking the movement of wheat bags to curb leakages, is set for a rollout in Ludhiana on Wednesday.

Officials said similar capacity-building exercises were being held across the state to ensure uniform implementation.

Under the decentralised procurement system, select gunny bags procured at mandis through arhtiyas (commission agents) are being tagged with QR codes at the point of dispatch. These...