Ammon News - The Cabinet, at a session held Wednesday and chaired by Prime Minister Jafar Hassan, approved a number of measures to control and rationalise fuel consumption by government vehicles and machinery through electronic connectivity and the exchange of data needed to implement Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) technology for electronic fuel dispensing.

The move is part of a broader government drive towards digital transformation and data-driven oversight. It will make fuel-dispensing operations more transparent and easier to monitor and hold accountable, while reducing waste, improving the efficiency of government fleet management, protecting public funds and rationalising operating expenditure.

The measures require users of government vehicles to record and monitor fuel purchases electronically and automatically, without human intervention.

The wider use of the technology builds on practical experience that has demonstrated its effectiveness. It has already been deployed on vehicles belonging to a number of government entities, demonstrating the feasibility of extending it more widely across the public sector.

Electronic fuel-dispensing technology links the fuelling process electronically to the government vehicle itself, allowing fuel quantities and dispensing data to be recorded automatically, without human intervention in recording values and quantities. This reduces reliance on manual procedures.

The technology does more than document fuelling operations. It also allows fuel data to be linked to the movement and actual use of government vehicles, making it possible to compare the amount of fuel dispensed with the vehicle’s actual use and identify any abnormal or unjustified consumption more quickly and accurately.

The system will be rolled out across all ministries, government departments, public institutions and authorities, municipalities, joint services councils, the Greater Amman Municipality and wholly government-owned companies. This will standardise mechanisms for controlling fuel consumption and strengthen oversight across public-sector institutions.