What was there before COREPDS? Chhattisgarh computerized the
whole PDS supply chain in 2007-08 Increased
Transparency,Accountability, Efficiency
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Situation before initiative As a result Leakages and diversion
have drastically come down Genuine beneficiary in Chhattisgarh is
no doubt, getting her full entitlements. But still there are
problems faced by beneficiary at FPS.
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Most common problems faced by beneficiary at FPS FPS is not
open when the beneficiary wants to take her rations, leading to
additional trips. 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.
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Most common problems faced by beneficiary at FPS (contd.)
Overcharging The sales person charges more than what is chargeable.
Deliberate under-weighment & Adulteration of the commodities by
sales person. Beneficiary may need to spend at least half a day to
take commodities because of long queues.
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Solution to above problems No technology can solve the above
problems. But portability can solve the problems. Portability
empowers beneficiary to go to an FPS giving better services, there
by creating a reason for improvement in service at FPS. Solution is
the Beneficiary empowerment
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Power of right to chose Q Why your colony's provision shop-wala
shall never ill-treat you? A if he ill-treats you or hurts your ego
you will stop going to the shop. Because you have freedom to chose
where to purchase he will treat you well.
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What COREPDS offers The convenience that technology has given
to a bank account holder to withdraw money from any ATM, is being
offered to a poor BPL beneficiary in COREPDS
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COREPDS Objectives To empower beneficiary To improve Service
Delivery To reduce Diversion To weed out Bad FPS To create
Transparency
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CORE PDS- How it works
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Every FPS has a POS device
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Smart Ration card for a BPL beneficiary Smart card has no
biometrics. Uses KMS supplied by NICHQ
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13 Click to Issue PDS Commodities through SRC
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15 Inserting Beneficiarys SRC
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17 Click if Beneficiary Details are Correct
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18 RC Number
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19 Beneficiary Food Balances Member Details RC Number
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21 Select Member Enter Quantities
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22 Click to Issue
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23 Transaction ID, Quantities Issued, Member ID,
TransactionDate
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24 Success Report Transaction ID, Quantities Issued, Member ID,
TransactionDate
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25 Process Success
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27 Click to Print Receipt
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APL Benficiaries They are not given smart cards. They will
register mobile numbers They take commodities using OTP
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Issue PDS Commodities without SRC There will always be a
situation where a small percentage of genuine beneficiaries do not
have SRCs because either they could not take in the distribution
camps or they have lost and duplicate is not yet been received.
This use case is to serve these genuine beneficiaries even with the
risk of a few proxy issues. These beneficiaries shall not get the
advantage of portability. But can take the commodities from their
linked FPS.
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RSBY Cards to be used as Ration cards COREPDS uses RSBY smart
card as ration card Government of Chhattisgarh has recently decided
to universalize RSBY through out Chhattisgarh. COREPDS rolled out
in Durg city at 69 FPSs without issuing a separate smart cards, but
using RSBY cards as ration cards
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COREPDS is readily scalable to Aadhaar authentication
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RC Number Name Biometric Auth. 14010101240611 Pratap Sahu N RC
Number Name Aadhaar Number 14010101240611 Pratap Sahu NA
14010101240611 Preethi Sahu NA 14010101240611 Shivesh Sahu NA RC
Number, Member ID Food A/C Balances Server
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RC Number Name Biometric Auth. 14010101240611 Pratap Sahu Y RC
Number Name Aadhaar Number 14010101240611 Pratap Sahu 143052789626
14010101240611 Preethi Sahu 327692489563 14010101240611 Shivesh
Sahu 165902789985 Member ID, RC No., Finger Print Aadhaar No.,
Finger Print Server Y/N Food A/C Balances
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RISKS, CHALLENGES & MITIGATION STRATEGY
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Risk 1 Implementation of CORE PDS acts against the interest of
many FPS Agencies. It is not wise to assume that FPS will sincerely
try to implement CORE PDS
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Mitigation Strategy When one FPS says that the POS is not
working beneficiary can go to a near by FPS. FPS that can not run
COREPDS loses its business to other FPSs. FPS automation without
portability as tried in some States is difficult to sustain
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Risk 2 In the initial days, all FPSs in an area can form a
nexus and see that POSs do not work.
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Mitigation Strategy CGSCSC operates mobile FPS.
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Mitigation Strategy Whenever a report is received that many
FPSs are not working in one area, these trucks will be sent to that
area. They serve the beneficiaries in front of the FPSs. Thus, FPSs
who do run CORE PDS shall lose their business.
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Risk 3 Competition does not help if everyone is bad. FPSs may
intentionally do not improve their service to prove that COREPDS is
a failure.
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Mitigation Strategy Good performers NGOs, Corporates under
their CSR will be introduced 50 FPS buildings under construction,
each costing 10 lakhs They will set benchmark for service
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Risk 4 Connectivity is either not available or speed is not
sufficient
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Mitigation Strategy Connectivity Survey was done. GPRS
connectivity is available at 7200 FPSs out of 8000 FPS served.
Effective speeds vary from 20 KBPS to 70 KBPS.
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Location of FPSs in Raipur
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Risk 5 Unreliable connectivity
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Mitigation Strategy COREPDS by design is an online system. But
it allows a limited offline issues also in case of connectivity
failure ( 3 for a beneficiary and 100 for an FPS) Offline records
will be uploaded whenever Smart card is inserted in a connected POS
device or through FI module
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Thoughts for Debate
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FPS automation without portability FPS automation without
portability creates more inconvenience to the genuine
beneficiary
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Biometric authentication Waive-off facility Friend families
With any other genuine beneficiaries authentication
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Portability in Rural areas? Migrated labourers To serve small
villages at door steps Social reasons
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Weighing Scale integration? Under-weighment is due to
disempowerment. Empower the beneficiary. No need to integrate
weighing scales with POS device.
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Benefits relaised in COREPDS Reduced waiting time at FPS
Reduced number of trips to FPS Behavioral change in FPS sales men
Weeding out bad FPS Bribe money stopped at the root
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Reduction in Diversion IndicatorBefore COREPDS After CORPDS
Remark Sale of BPL Grain 100%95% Prior to COREPDS, FPSs used to
record proxy issues and declare 99 to 100% sale. After introduction
of Smart card / OTP authentication the sale figure have reduced.
Sale of Kerosene 100%75% Sale of APL Grain 80%50%
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Freedom to chose Currently 20% of beneficiaries are using
portability. Remaining beneficiaries are taking at their own FPS,
but now with their choice not by compulsion. At this context I want
to refer Amartya Sens quotation which is as follows
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From 'Development as Freedom', p 27 "A person produces the same
commodities in the same way and ends up with same income and buys
the same goods, she may still have very good reason to prefer the
scenario of free choice over that of submission to order" Amartya
Sen Winner of the nobel prize in economics
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What kind of FPS automation? Online system, but should support
a limited offline transactions Aadhaar-based Biometric
authentication with alternate authentication mechanism RSBY or
other Smart cards for quick start without waiting for Aadhaar
saturation and to allow for offline transactions
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What kind of PDS envisioned? Empowered beneficiary with choice
of FPS, choice of commodities and choice to take cash instead of
commodities NGOs/ MNC running FPS chain treating beneficiary as a
valued customer, to capture fortune at the bottom of the pyramid
Mobile FPS to serve remotest villages at their door steps
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Thank You This kind of PDS is not a distant dream with
available technology and growing political and burocratic will for
improving PDS A.K.Somasekhar [email protected]@nic.in, 94252 02643