IMPROVED UID BASED PUBLIC DISTRIBUTION SYSTEM

Problem

• Scope

• Causes of the problem

Solution

• Phase1

• Phase2

• SOA

Leveraging existing government infrastructure

• Stakeholder(s) involved at each step

• Financial and human resources required at each step

• Proposed source(s) of funding

Impact of the solution

• Criteria to measure the impact of the solution

• Scalability of the solution

• Sustainability of the solution

• Appropriate monitoring mechanisms

Challenges and Mitigation Factors

• social, economic, political challenges

• Legal, technological and challenges

TEAM MEMBERS

DEEPAK VASHISTH

DEEPAK MALHOTRA

GAURAV SHARMA

HARSHIT PUNN

HIMANSHU SHETHI

PROBLEMS … SCOPE ..

• The problem of identifying beneficiaries leads to high exclusion

and inclusion errors. High exclusion errors lead to low coverage of

BPL households. High inclusion errors lead to APL families receiving

excessive food grain which increases the burden on the governments.

There is also the added burden of ghost cards. According to the

Planning Commission, there are 10 crore ration cards for 6.5 crore

BPL families.

• Another challenge relating to the Public Distribution of India is that

of leakages either during transportation or due to the existence of ghost cards. 48.3% of the food which was

to be distributed by PDS was leaked via the ration shops. Leakage at various levels of the distribution chain

leads to increased subsidy cost. The unintended subsidy cost is way higher than the intended cost. In Bihar,

the total central subsidy for off take by the BPL households is Rs. 50.98 per kg while the intended subsidy

cost was Rs. 4.52 per kg

Problems

• Scope

SOLUTION … PHASE 1…PHASE2

SOLUTION

• For determining the true BPL families a UID integrated Bank Account is proposed , this data could be

used to keep eye on the beneficiary group.

• At ration shops , ration should be provided by confirming the customer through their UID data , using

simple OMR devices. This would ensure that food reaches to the needy and would rectify the leaks in

PDS system.

DETERMINING TRUE NEEDIES

• Making compulsory for every bank account to be integrated with “UID/Adhar” card .

• Data mining the account details of family , using data-mining algorithms proper statistical result is

generated to increase the easiness .

PHASE2.. AT RATION SHOPS

• Ration shops are connected to a dedicated server that contains all the database regarding UID’s and

associated subsidies allotted to them.

• This server would process the data and define whether or not the requesting is eligible for the subsidized

food .

• This would also keep data of the food in the ration shops and hence would eliminate the exploitation of it.

Solution

• Phase1

• Phase2

SERVICE ORIENTED ARCHITECTURE IMPLEMENTATION

This figure shows the Service Oriented Architecture to implement our Idea.

The server is linked with both the data base i.e. Families data base and UID

data base .

Ration shop / FPS on account of any request send the UID to the server that

processes it and associate it with the BPL/APL data base. On the bases of the

processed data it determine the eligibility of the customer .

Ensuring the security of the data base Intent Messenger is used that serves

as the interface for the interaction between the server and the data bases.

Various processes are performed at server :

1. Card verification

2. UID determination

3. Data association

4. Update management

5. Resource checking

• This project is not so costly as it would involve:

1. Group of technicians that can handle the server and work through periodic

check.

2. Trainers to train the existing staffs at Ration/FPS Shops .

3. NGOs to help the local people grab the benefits of this technology.

• Government could also include private agencies to handle and implement

different servers.

• Reasonable cost of OMR devices and simple implementation makes this project

affordable.

• NGOs and Government collaborative effort is enough for the project and funding

can be provided by either of them.

• This project is fully designed to fit in the current PDS system with the specified

amendments , with the allotment of UID cards by the government , now this

could be implemented in reality. Current system offers various resources needed

for our project , by integrating all the PDS system in a network we can achieve a

connected and leakage free system.

Leveraging existing government infrastructure

• Stakeholder(s) involved at each step

• Financial and human resources required at each step

• Proposed source(s) of funding

Criteria to measure the impact of the solution

• Routine check and determining the loop holes in the implementation of the system.

• Conducting surveys to find out the difficulties and inconvenience that people faces .

Scalability of the solution

• This Idea is easily scalable as new nodes can be added to a single server .

• Extensible and flexible .

Sustainability of the solution

• Idea is highly sustainable with easily implemented in current PDS system

• Logs of data could be maintained and a loosely coupled linking is provided.

• No impact on ecosystem .

• Friendly approach.

• Making available adequate quantity of essential commodities of acceptable quality at all times,

• Ensuring equitable distribution of the available essential commodities to all sections of the population at

easily accessible places,

• Ensuring that the prices are affordable to all sections of the society. Monitoring prices, market intervention,

procurement, buffer stocking.

• In very many cases the location of FPS is at the headquarter of PACB, which is normally away from the

villages

• Allotment of goods is not made according to the entitlements but it is made according to the distribution of

goods and opening stock at FPS level.

• Lack of organic relationship between lead societies and link societies leads to improper stocking of goods.

Challenges and Mitigation Factors

REFERENCES

• Longji Tang, Jing Dong, Yajing Zhao, Liang-Jie Zhang,” Enterprise Cloud Service Architecture” in 2010

IEEE 3rd International Conference on Cloud Computing .

• PLUGGING THE LEAKS

• Improving reach and efficiency of the Public Distribution System

• Planning Commission. (2005). Performance Evaluation of Targeted Public Distribution System (TPDS).

Retrieved from http://planningcommission.nic.in/reports/peoreport/peo/peo_tpds.pdf

• A Study on the Effectiveness of Public Distribution System In Rural Tamilnadu

Submitted to The Planning Commission ,Government of India, New Delhi

Submitted by Dr. S. Nakkiran ,Principal (Retd.)