E-PDS - 'IMPLEMENTATION OF PILOT SCHEME ON INTRODUCTION OF SMART CARD BASED DELIVERY OF ESSENTIAL COMMODITIES UNDER TPDS IN THE STATE OF HARYANA AND CHANDIGARH (UT) | E-PDS Project at NIC

Description This project has been assigned by the M/o CAFPD, wherein NIC provided various standards related to the project like Smart cards, Finger prints, Smart Card Transaction Terminal/ Point of Sale Terminal & demographic data and PDS related parameters. NIC made detailed System Study, Preparation of SRS, Design & Development of the application software and Deployment. User Acceptance Testing is completed for both Haryana & Chandigarh (UT).




The application is for Smart Ration card preparation & issuance of commodities using smart card. A major part of this system focuses on reconciliation of data where all transactions can be reconciled to get the allocation of commodities and their lifting by actual beneficiary through an online system.



The designed solution is generic in nature so that it can be replicated to other states with minimum customization. The System is targeted for UIDAI compliance by capturing all ten finger prints, individual photographs of the family members.



URL http://epds.nic.in/nic-scbpdsCHD/epds (for Chandigarh)



Contact Details Dr. (Mrs.) Ranjna Nagpal

Sr. Technical Director & HOD

Food & Consumer Affairs Infosys Division

National Informatics Centre,

Department of Information Technology

Ministry of Communications & IT

A Block, CGO Complex, Lodhi Road

New Delhi-110003

Tel: 24392167

Email: ranjna@nic.in