1. ELECTRONIC PUBLIC DISTRIBUTION SYSTEM (ePDS) & ePOS
Smart PDS – Integrated approach
The department of Food and Civil supplies,
Govt. of Telangana

2. OVER VIEW - TELANGANA No. of Districts .. 10
No. of Revenue Divisions
No. of Mandals
MLS points
No. of Fair price shops ,163

3. MAJOR CHALLENGES IN PUBLIC DISTRIBUTION SYSTEM
Non-existent, duplicate, migrated families/units
Updating Ration cards with mutations
Allocation of Essential Commodities
Archaic processes resulting in creating duplicate cards and units
Sharing of data with other Departments
Absence of Master data of all the Ration cards,
FP shops, MLS points etc.,
Monitoring of off take and Closing balances
Diversions and Leakages. No Transparency

4. ePDS Key Functional Areas
Ration Card Management 1
ePDS
Key Functional Areas 5
Grievance Redressal
Allocation 2 4 3
Electronic Point of Sale (ePOS)
Movement of Essential Commodities

5. END TO END COMPUTERISATION
Aadhaar backbone
Component I
ePDS- Digitalization of Ration cards and
Aadhaar seeding
Supply Chain Management
Vehicle Tracking system(GPS)
Piloted in Hyderabad & Khammam
Component II
FP shop automation piloted
ePOS in (45) shops in Hyderabad.

6. COMPONENT I - ePDS MODULES
Online software developed NIC
Aadhaar seeding – Data entry of UID/EID
Ration card management (RCM)
DKR generation– Register containing
names of card holders
Mutations - Link with Meeseva Kiosks
Allocation and payment by FP Shop
dealers through eSEVA
Grievance redressal –SMS Gateway

7. AADHAAR BACK BONE Seeding in ration card database - savings
Aadhaar – common field to pull data from other databases
LPG data base – Savings in Kerosene allocation
Eligibility of House holds from Samagra Survey data for new Food security cards
ePOS – Online Aadhaar authentication of card holder – savings

8. Organic Seeding Entry Screen

9. SEEDING – BENEFITS TO CARD HOLDERS
System is citizen friendly to the genuine card holders - ECs are assured
Activations at local office based on UID
Elimination of Duplicates
Impersonination is avoided

10. SEEDING – USEFUL TO DEPT.
Validations in seeding
Duplicates not allowed.
Algorithms provided
Enables data purification
Seed EID/UID, if persons are available
If EID is rejected, facilitate for re- enrollment
If EID is pending, request UIDIA for priority processing.
Deactivate, if the person is not found.
Bogus cards/units are eliminated

11. STATUS OF AADHAAR SEEDING IN TELANGANA
BPL cards – 79,98,839
Units – 2,48,69,797
Seeded units – 2,35,44,129
% of seeding –

12. STATUS IN JUNE,14 Versus NOVEMBER,14
SAVINGS AFTER SEEDING
STATUS IN JUNE,14 Versus NOVEMBER,14
Particulars
In June 2014
In November 2014
Difference
No. of BPL Cards
91,84,991
79,65,0,28
12,19,963
No. of BPL Units
3,21,43,953
2,47,47,002
73,96,951
Rice Allotment (Mts)
1,39,037
1,15,814
23,223
Savings in rice : MTs

13. AADHAAR AS COMMON FIELD - LPG
Kerosene distribution– 1 liter to LPG holder & 2 liters to non LPG holder in Rural areas and 4 Liters in Municipal Corps.
Aadhaar seeded LPG data of OMCs
Mapping of LPG data with ePDS data
7406 Kilo Liters of Kerosene saved
Enabled issue of additional Kerosene of 1 liter per card holder in Rural areas

14. RATION CARD MANAGEMENT
Digitalization of Ration cards
Aadhaar Seeding
Activation/Deactivation by Tahsildars
Generation of DKR every month
Changes/Transfers of Ration cards through Meeseva
Approval of cards by Tahsildars through Digital key
Provision for ‘Log’-’Recording of all transactions
Transparency – Search provision & Reports in public domain

15. National Informatics Centre Integration of Meeseva with ePDS
Ration card Mutation Services in Meeseva
Deletion of Member in Ration Card
Household Head Modifications
Member Migration in Ration Card
Ration card Missing Details in Data Base
Ration Card Modifications (Address Change & Member Modifications)
Ration Card Transfer
Surrender of Ration Card

16. National Informatics Centre
Address Change and Member Modifications UI at Meeseva end

17. National Informatics Centre
Tahsildar user dash board after login

18. National Informatics Centre
Inspector Login dashboard

19. National Informatics Centre
Digital Signing in ePDS

20. National Informatics Centre
Print Ration Card

21. ALLOCATION OF ECs Closing balances at FP Shops
DKR generation from State Level
Allocation of EC’s from State level up to FP Shop level
System generates allocation proceedings
Provision for generation of ROs and Recording of payments by FP Shop dealers

22. Allotment month wise Detailed RO Report
National Informatics Centre , Govt. of India Telangana State Unit

23. USERS AND ROLES IN ePDS Public Domain Users Roles DEO
Data entry operators at block / mandal/ circle offices ( 1-5 per block/mandal/circle office)
INSP
Inspectors at block/ mandal/circle offices( 1- 2 per block/circle/mandal)
ASO_TAH
Assistant Circle Officers/ Tahsildhars / Mandal revenue officers (1 per 6 block/circle/mandal - 600)
DSO
District Supply officers (districts level -10)
JC/ CRO
Joint Collector/Chief Rationing Officer (dist level-10)
DyDIR
Deputy Director (state level – 2)
COMMR
Commissioner Civil Supplies
Public Domain
Search Provision
Transactional Reports (DKR,Allotment etc)
FAQ’s

24. CYBER SECURITY MEASURES
The software is security audited and all the user ids (approx 2500) are protected with passwords.
Meeseva approvals are all digitally signed in ePDS and verified by the Meeseva kiosks before printing.
All the transactions are stored in history for retrieving at a later date as a transaction log.
All activities of all users are recorded online for future listing

25. SUPLY CHAIN MANAGEMENT
Linkages from FCI to MLS points to the FP shops.
Linked to eSeva for payments by FP Shop dealers and for generation of Release Orders
System generated truck sheets.
SMS alert on stock arrivals
Piloted in Hyderabad & Khammam
Scaling up in progress
Hardware under procurement for all MLS points

26. SUPPLY CHAIN MANAGEMENT

27. Supply Chain Management National Informatics Centre
Screen shots After Login as MLS Point Stage 2
National Informatics Centre

28. Supply Chain Management National Informatics Centre
Screen shots After Login as Tahsildar / ASO
National Informatics Centre

29. ePOS PILOT IN HYDERABAD PROCESS FLOW
Commodities received at FPS - Authenticated by route officer
Any member of the family having Aadhaar can take ECs
PoS device validates Ration Card number and displays the details of family Members.
PoS Device sends the encrypted XML to Authentication User Agency (AUA) & Forwards the XML to Authentication Service Agency (ASA –dept. engaged BSNL) by adding security keys.
ASA invokes Central Identity Data Repository (CIDR) of UIDAI and transmits the authentication packets to CIDR.
The PoS Device receives the authentication result. If 'YES', the FPS dealer keys in details of commodities and issues ration
Receipt provided in Telugu.
If 'No', system also handles exceptions( through VRO Authentication)
Beneficiaries have to undergo Best Finger Detection (BFD)
in order to increase the authentication accuracy

30. ePOS PILOT IN HYDERABAD - BENEFITS
45 shops - October 2012
Benefits
Ration assured
Paper slips – transparency
Monitor whether the shop opened or not
System generated CBs
Savings
14 % - average monthly
Seasonal migration

31. FUTURE ROAD MAP Supply chain management to be expanded to entire state
Vehicle tracking (GPS) system to be extended to entire state
Public grievance redressal in ePDS workflow
ePOS in all the Fair Price shops of the state
Integration of SKS data with ePDS database

32. Thank You