Digital India in Action

Aadhaar enabled PDS through ePOS, Government of AP 2015
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FPS declares 'no stock' even when the FPS has sufficient stocks, leading
to additional trips.
The sales person does not accord due respect to the beneficiary or
sometimes misbehaves.
Overcharging – The sales person charges more than what is chargeable.
Deliberate under-weighing of the commodities by sales person.
Beneficiary may need to spend at least half a day to take commodities
because of long queues.
• Identification of poor performing Fair Price Shops was earlier possible only
by inspections of authorities and dependent on the complaints received by the
public and its verification. In both the cases, finding truth is dependent on the
integrity of the inspecting authority, which is questionable in a percentage of
cases. AePDS targets to create a System where bad performing FPS' are
automatically abandoned by the beneficiaries and lose business and thus
perish from the System.
RESULT INDICATORS
Benefits obtained
• To empower beneficiary
o To improve Service Delivery
o Reduced waiting time for service delivery
o Behavioral change in FPS personnel
o Reduced number of trips of beneficiaries to take different commodities
o To reduce Diversion
o To Weed out poor Performing FPS
• Future Road Map
o Roll out in the entire state
o Linking Mandal Level Stock points
o Linking FCI deliveries to MLS points.
o Comprehensive AeRCMS (Aadhaar enabled Ration Card Management
System) through PoS with authentication and de-duplication
o Applying for new ration cards
o Adding/ deleting members to the ration card etc
Implementation coverage till date
Currently, the entire District of Krishna and 50% fair price shops of Kadapa
districts are covered. From September we will be covering the districts of
Kadapa, Prakasam & Nellore, in addition. And subsequently remaining districts
will be covered by end of Oct’2015.
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