AAPURTI-UP - Training Division NIC, UPSU Lucknowtraining.up.nic.in/coursematerial/PDS-Food Dept.pdfMonday, February 20, 2017 AAPURTI-UP Uttar Pradesh Public Distribution System Under

Monday, February 20, 2017

AAPURTI-UPUttar Pradesh Public Distribution System Under

National Food Security Act - 2013

National Informatics Centre, Uttar Pradesh


Food & Civil Supplies Department, GoUP

The Department of Food & Civil Supplies, Government of Uttar

Pradesh ensures enforcement and compliance of Public

Distribution System on the targeted citizens through the policies

established by the Government of Uttar Pradesh and Government

of India.

The Department is responsible for :-

Supply and delivery of commodities to the Citizen

through Public distribution centres at reasonable or

subsidized rates

Procurement of food grains and other essential

commodities

Maintenance of stocks and their storages

Food security, licenses etc.


AAPURTI-UP

National Food Security Act (NFSA) - 2013 implemented in 28 districts ofUP from 1-January,2016 and in remaining 47 districts from 1-April,2016 .

Automation of PDS as per NFSA has been introduced with the name“AAPURTI-UP” with the objective of providing essential commodities tounderprivileged sections of the society at subsidized rates.

Largest network of PDS in India with more than 3.40 crore ration cardholders and 15 crore beneficiaries.

“AAPURTI-UP” to provide fast and accurate information to the Govt. forstrategic decisions to be made for effective implementation of NFSA.


Key Components of AAPURTI-UP

•Creation & Management of digitizedBeneficiary Database as per NFSA.

RATION CARD MANAGEMENT

•Commodity allocation at District & FPSlevel, Release Order, e-Challan, Dispatchorder, Stock receipt and finally delivery atFPS.

SUPPLY CHAIN MANAGEMENT

•Aadhaar based biometric authentication todistribute commodities at FPS andcapturing transactions through PoS device.

PoS WITH UID INTEGRATION

•Mobile App to provide facilities like RationCard Search, FPS Search, view NFSAeligibility criteria etc.

MOBILE APP

•Farmer registration, wheat/paddyprocurement, payment to farmers,movement challan for mill/FCI depot,FCI acknowledgement and Billing.

e-PROCUREMENT

•Transparent Grievance RedressalMechanism with Toll free Call centre.

GRIEVANCE REDRESSAL


Server Profile

Hosted on UP State Data Centre

Application Server : 6 Virtual Machines each with WindowsServer 2012 R2, 32 GB RAM , 2 Processors (Intel Xeon CPU E5-2640 2.5 GHz ) ,

Web Server: IIS 8.5 ( Applications on .net framework 4.0 )

Database Server: Windows Server 2012 R2, 256 GB RAM ,

4 octa-core processors ( Intel Xeon CPU E5-4620 2.2 GHz )

9 TB of SAN Storage Space available.

Database : SQL Server 2012. Total size of Databases : 4.12 TB


Current Statistics

Antyoday

•Ration Cards:

40,94,834

•Beneficiaries:

1,63,08,700

Priority Households

•Ration Cards:

3,00,00,667

•Beneficiaries:

13,36,98,168

Total

•Ration Cards:

3,40,95,501

•Beneficiaries:

15,00,06,868

Fair Price Shops

•Rural: 66,125

•Urban: 13,163

•Total: 79,288

Grievances

•Received:

82,680

•Disposed:

69,480

NFSA Applications

•Web Portal:

1,33,62,842

•CSC login:

76,19,680

e-Challans

•2015-16:

1,15,608

•2016-17:

3,09,223


Commodity Rates

Scheme Wheat (Rs/kg) Rice(Rs/kg) Sugar(Rs/kg)

Antyoday 2.00 3.00 13.50

Priority Household 2.00 3.00 13.50

Commodity Entitlement

Commodity Antyoday (kg per ration card )

Priority Household( kg per unit[member] )

Wheat 20.00 3.00

Rice 15.00 2.00

Sugar 2.00 0.865(pro-rata basis )


Ration Card ManagementDigitized beneficiary data and created centralized database with clearprocess flow of data updation.

Data from various sources viz. SECC-2011, APL, BPL, AAY, Onlineapplications and DSO office applications has been used to generate FPSwise eligibility list of beneficiaries.

After due verification, NFSA Ration Cards are digitally signed and PDFgenerated using Windows Application (RC data accessed through webservice )

100% ration card details with member details are available online.

De-duplication process to remove duplicate beneficiaries. Variousexception reports to eliminate bogus beneficiaries.

Exhaustive search to view details of NFSA Ration Card on the web portal.

Integration with e-District to ensure delivery of Ration Card servicesthrough Common Service Centres (CSC).

Ration Card details are being provided through Web Services foridentification of beneficiaries for National Health Insurance Scheme.


Flow of Ration Card(RC) Management

RC Application submission by

applicant to CSC/DSO office

Online Entry of RC Application by Operator at

CSC/DSO Office

RC Application verification by

ARO

RC Application moved to NFSA beneficiary list

by DSO

Digital Signature on RC

by ARO

Downloading RC in PDF Format

Printing of RC from PDF

RC Collected by FPS Dealer/CSC

RC Received by Beneficiary


Sample Ration Card


Supply Chain Management (SCM)

Automation & monitoring of foodgrains allocation, storage, transportationand delivery.

District wise monthly allocation of commodities by State Head Quarters.FPS wise monthly allocation of commodities by Supply Inspector.

Generation of Release Order Indent by District Food Marketing Officer(DFMO) / District Manager, State Food Corporation (SFC).

Complete process flow of commodity movement from FCI depots to stategodown and from state godown to FPS.

Stock Receiving/Issuing Entry by Godown Incharge. Stock delivered toFPS through e-Challan.

SMS alerts generated at various stages of process flow and to registeredindividuals regarding lifting of commodities by FPS


Flow of Supply Chain Management(SCM)

District-wise Allocation Entry & Locking by

Commissioner Office

FPS wise allocation entry by Supply Inspector

Godown-wise allocation locking by SDM(in rural area) or ARO (in urban

area)

Generation of Release Order Indent by

DFMO

Release Order Receiving entry by Dispatch Incharge

Single/Multiple Dispatch Entry by Dispatch Incharge

(against RO)

Stock Receipt Entry by Godown Incharge

(against Dispatch Order )

FPS Payment and Commodity Lifting

Entry by Godown In-charge

e-Challan download by FPS owner


POS with UID IntegrationCommodity distribution automation at Fair Price Shop (FPS) using Point-of-sale device(PoS)

Aadhaar based biometric authentication of the beneficiary using webservice of UIDAI at FPS

Transactions and closing balance are being updated at central server inreal time.

Provision of SMS based OTP in case of biometric authentication failed.

System ensures food grain distribution to genuine beneficiary, SMS alertsto beneficiary about commodity distribution.

Drill down MIS from State Level to FPS and Ration Card Level.


POS with UID IntegrationBeneficiary reaches the FPSand provides ration card to FPSdealer

FPS dealers enters the RationCard ID in the PoS device

Adhaar based Biometricauthentication of the beneficiaryis done.( In case of failure, OTPthrough SMS is used )

Requested commodity is issued and receipt is printed.

PoS terminal pushes thetransaction data to the PDSserver.

Pics_Videos\AAPURTI UP FPS.mp4


Mobile App

Mobile App developed to empower beneficiary to get latest updatedinformation.

Facility to search Ration card details on parameters viz. Location details,name, and Adhaar /mobile no etc.

Locate Fair Price Shop of the beneficiary.

Information regarding eligibility criteria for NFSA beneficiary.

Information regarding current rate of commodities, entitlement forAntyoday and Priority Households, MSP for Wheat and Paddy etc.

Important notifications from the department , news, weather forecast etc.can be viewed.

Linked with social networks like Facebook, Twitter and Google+.


Mobile App


e-Procurement

Procurement system to facilitate farmers to sell wheat/paddy at Govt.approved procurement centres.

Farmer can register and choose procurement centre with tentative dates& quantity for selling of wheat/paddy.

SMS alerts to farmer confirming procurement centre and procurementdate

Purchase amount transferred directly to farmers account same day andSMS alert generated

Backend process flow from procurement centre to mill and finally to FCIdepot captured to ensure leakproof movement system.

Facilitate procurement centres in generating account ledger to showavailability of funds and consumption & availability of types of gunnybags.


Flow of e-Procurement

Activation of Procurement Agencies

by DFMO

Master Data Entry by DFMO

(Creation of Agency, Mandi, Storage

Godown, PCF Society and Mill )

Creation of Procurement Centre by

DFMO/Agency Manager

Registration of Farmer by

Procurement Centre Incharge(PCI)

Entry of procurement details and print of farmer

receipt

(by PCI)

Generation of Payment(RTGS)

Receipt

(by PCI)

Generation of Movement Challan

(by PCI )

FCI Acknowledgment

Receipt Entry

(by PCI)

Bill Generation by PCI and approval of

Bill by SRAO


Grievance Redressal System

Citizens can directly register complaint on the web portal.

Complaints received through toll free no. are registered by call centreexecutives.

Registered complaints are being marked to concerned officers by callcentre executives.

On receiving a complaint, department officers take prompt action on itand enter the details of action taken.

Complaints are finally disposed by State Level Nodal Officer of thedepartment.

In case of unsatisfactory resolution , complaint can be re-assigned toconcerned officer by State Level Nodal Officer.

Citizens can view current/final status of complaint through the webportal.

SMS and email alerts are sent to complainant and concerned officers ofthe department at every stage.


Unique Features

Adhaar based biometric authentication of beneficiary is done at the timeof distribution of food commodity using online service of UIDAI.

Various exception reports based on logical anomalies and de-duplicationalgorithms generated to remove duplicate/bogus/ghost beneficiaries.

Total no of Ration Cards in the state reduced from 4.41 crore to 3.79 croreafter the cleaning process based on de-duplication and exception reports

Data of Socio-economic and Caste Census(SECC) has been utilized foridentification of eligible beneficiaries in rural areas as per NFSA norms.

As per NFSA norms, oldest female in the family was made head offamily(HoF) and relation of other members with the HoF were modifiedaccordingly using indigenously developed algorithm.

With the help of Online NFSA application system, 1.34 crore applicationsfor new ration card were received from citizens.


Unique FeaturesDigital Signatures have been used to enable authenticity of Ration Cards.

QR codes have been used for Online Verification of Ration Cards.

Allocation is being done on the basis of actual beneficiary count derivedfrom digitized ration card database.

Online transfer of payment from FPS dealers to godown incharge has beenimplemented through e-Challan system.

Automatic updation of monthly closing balance of FPS throughinformation pushed by PoS devices.

Automatic adjustment of FPS wise Allocation for next month based on theclosing balance for previous month.

Mobile App provided for facilities like RC Search, FPS Search, view NFSAeligibility criteria, important notifications from the department etc.

New bilingual GIGW compliant web portal launched to provide completeinformation regarding PDS


!!! Thank You !!!

Documents

AAPURTI-UP - Training Division NIC, UPSU Lucknowtraining.up.nic.in/coursematerial/PDS-Food Dept.pdfMonday, February 20, 2017 AAPURTI-UP Uttar Pradesh Public Distribution System Under