Consumer Affairs, Food &

Civil supplies Department ,

Government of Telangana

Smart PDS in Telangana

No. of Districts .. 10

No. of Revenue Divisions .. 42

No. of Mandals .. 467

MLS points .. 173

No. of Fair price shops .. 17,194

Over View

91.68 Lakhs ration Cards

84.20 Lakhs house holds (2011 Census)

Multiple categories of ration cards

Temporary food coupons

Analysis of the situation- bogus cards, duplicates, dead/migrated etc.

New State of Telangana

Adhar seeding – organic seeding, facilitating enrolment, generation of UID on priority basis etc.

Surrendering of bogus cards

From 35% to 90%

Unseeded data- thorough verification

Outcome: 11.75 lakhs bogus cards, dead/migrated, duplication etc.

74.14 Lakhs units weeded out. ( in 3 months)

22,830 MTs of Rice saving in December 2014

Initiatives

National Food Security Act 2013

Revision of criteria

Fresh applications

Total applications received

Total applications approved

Total number of units approved

Implementation of food security act: January 2015

Unique features: 6 Kgs per individual, No ceiling on size of the family

Food security cards

Component I

ePDS- Digitization of Ration cards and Aadhaar

seeding

Supply Chain Management

Grievance Redressal Mechanism

Component II

FP Shop automation

End to end computerization

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Ration Card

Management

Allocation

Movement of

Essential

Commodities

Grievance

Redressal

Electronic

Point of Sale

(ePoS)

e-PDS

Key Functional Areas

1

2 5

4 3

Ration cards- multiple drives multiplying the no of cards

Lack of master data base

Mutation- manual system- static data

Allocation- manual allocation, discretionary at cutting edge level

Inadequate monitoring- manual report system

Archaic process- lot of confusion, inconvinience

Sharing data with other departments

e- PDS Challenges

ePDS is an online software application catering to the Ration cards management, allocation and seeding of aadhar data. The processes involved in the distribution of Essential Commodities (ECs) to the BPL families are automated so as to bring efficiency, accountability and transparency to the PDS of Civil Supplies Department.

Adhar seeding module

Ration card management module

Allocation module

Process

EID/UID seeding- organic seeding

Every unit in all applications seeded with adhar

Both ration cards and LPG- 91% and 75% respectively

About 2055 KLs of K oil saving / month from June 2014

Now bank account number seeding- more than 7 lakh

Is being used for online authentication of card holders wherever e-PoS devices are installed

Adhar seeding module

Adhar seeding made card management easier

Weeding out of duplicate cards

Integration with Mee Seva (CSC) – mutation, any modifications, transfer, addition/deletion etc

Use of digital key by tahsildars for all transactions

Provision for Log- recording of all transactions

Transparency- search provision and various reports in public domain

Dynamic data- generation of DKR every month

Ration card management module

CBs from every FPS Generation of DKR at state level Allocation of ECs in cascading manner From Commissioner civil supplies- up to FPS level System generated allocation proceedings Provision for generation of ROs and recording of payments

by FPS dealers also linked with Mee Seva for direct remittance for issue of

Ros No scope for discretion at any level

Allocation module

Delay in receipt of information-stage I and II- truck wise lifting, transportation of Essential Commodities i.e., Truck number, weighment, time of despatch, time of receipt.

Manual monitoring

Delay in obtaining OBs and CBs of stocks causing delay in positioning of stocks at MLS Points.

No tracking of transactions in FPSs

There was no proper control mechanism over PDS stock diversion if any

Supply Chain Management Challenges

It covers movement of ECs in two stages From FCI to MLS points From MLS points to FPSs Generation of truck chits by fetching information from

ePDS Linked to Mee Seva for payment and RO generation SMS alerts on arrival of stocks Logistics placed at all MLS points Pilot successfully running at Hyderabad and Khammam

districts

Process

Online monitoring of truck wise data

Transparency in movement of ECs from FCI to MLS Points (Stage-I) & MLS Points to FP Shops (Stage-II)

The OBs and CBs and transactions at MLS points monitored on daily basis. Enables the positioning of stocks

Better monitoring, Less scope for malpractices.

Control over the diversion of PDS Stocks.

Less scope for errors in data.

Benefits

A toll free helpline- 1967 for Registration and redressal of grievances under TPDS operations since Jan, 2013.

This is just a beginning. Department envisages a comprehensive redressal mechanism which is under process

Grievance redressal mechanism

Manual system of distributing Ration- scope for numerous irregularities

Proliferation of bogus cards i.e., cards with no corresponding real beneficiaries.

No mechanism to prevent fake entries in sales register without the cardholder actually purchasing the ECs.

The closing balances are collected manually and subjectivity involved. Diversion of ECs

Denial of rightful entitlement

Over-pricing

Defeating the very purpose of the PDS

FPS Automation Challenges

Pilot project in Hyderabad district in 45 FPSs- Oct 2012 Linking PDS distribution to Adhar based authentication Only genuine card holder or his family members listed can

draw ECs The device validates card no and displays the details of

family members The device fetches the authentication packets from Central

Identity Data Repository (CIDR) of UIDAI Handles unsuccessful transactions- authentication by

identified field staff All FPS transactions digitally recorded Real time MIS- daily transactions, OBs, CBs etc Automated SMS Transaction receipts provided in local language Incentive to the dealer

Process

Rightful entitlement assured

Paper slips- transparency

Monitors the shop timings

Real time monitoring of FPSs

System generated CBs

Arrests diversion

Huge savings

Benefits

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