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1. TITLE ......................................................................................................................................................................... 4
2. URL:........................................................................................................................................................................... 4
3. STATEMENT OF INTENT & OVERVIEW...................................................................................................................... 4
NFSC overview and features............................................................................................................................... 5
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How has the web application increased the efficiency of the department direct/indirect.............................14
Is there any financial saving for the department - give approx percentages .....................................................14
How has the web application helped public at large? ........................................................................................15
9.
SECURITY ...............................................................................................................................................................15
Has the website been audited for security? Attach security certificate ............................................................15
1. TITLE
National Food Security cards NFSC,
for the department of Civil Supplies, Govt. of Telangana.
2. URL:
http://epds.telangana.gov.in/FoodSecurityAct
3. STATEMENT OF INTENT & OVERVIEW
In compliance with the orders of Honble Supreme Court in WP (Civil) No.196/2001, dated
14.9.2011 to the Government of India to provide necessary infrastructure and financial
support for ensuring the computerization of PDS and the direction of the Department of
Food and Public Distribution, Govt. of India, New Delhi to implement End-to-End
Computerization of TPDS Operations. Government of India allocates commodities to the
State Governments / U.Ts for distribution to the TPDS beneficiaries of various categories
viz., Below Poverty Line (BPL), Antyodaya Anna Yojana (AAY), etc.
But due to the state bifurcation of Andhra Pradesh (former), the newly formed Telangana
state beneficiaries are still holding old FSC cards with Govt. of AP, have to get new FSC
cards as per the National Food Security Act with Govt. of Telangana. Hence, the Honble
CM has passed orders to issue new Food Security Cards (FSC) to the people of Telangana
state. For this purpose Gov. of Telangana has conducted a massive survey called Samagra
Kutumba Survey (SKS) in a single day to gather the details of all the families across the
state. Based on the information gathered by the survey, new FSC cards are being designed
and digitized for the beneficiaries.
The whole concept of computerisation of PDS operations fall under 2 components.
Component I deals with supply and distribution of PDS including Food Security Cards
management and Component II deals with FPShop automation. The grievance redressal
system is handled through toll free number in a call centre placed at the Office of the
commissioner, Department of civil supplies. The calls are recorded and the resolution of
the complaints is monitored.
National Food Security cards is an online software application catering to the Food
Security Cards Management System, Aadhaar Seeding, Samagra Kutumba Survey (SKS)
data integration, Dynamic Key Register, Allocation, Integration with Mee-Seva and e-seva,
Commodity Off-take and EPoS Devices. The processes involved in the distribution of
Essential Commodities (ECs) to the BPL families are automated so as to bring efficiency,
accountability and transparency to the PDS of Civil Supplies Department. The initiative
was taken up as per GOI orders for end to end computerization of PDS to arrest the
leakage of subsidy.
Allocation Module Allocation module enables allocation of ECs to the FP shops. Once
Commissioner, Civil Supplies gives allocation in NFSC, system calculates shop wise
allotment taking the Closing Balances (CBs) and the card strength into account. The
District Supply officer (DSO) at the District Level, with the click of a button can allocate.
No discretion at any level is allowed as the proceedings are generated online. It is linked
with eSeva for direct remittance in eSeva kiosks for issue of ROs (Release Orders).
The allocation is linked to eSeva through web service and the dealers are able to pay
DDs in eSeva as per the system generated shop wise allocation. Details of payment are
also recorded instantaneously in NFSC.
Dynamic Key Register A key register will be generated for day-to-day analysis of
quantity of commodities being supplied to the beneficiaries based on approved cards.
Monthly DKR is developed for the analysis of quantity of commodities to be released for
the current month based on active (FSC & AFSC) cards and the distribution policy
containing card type, quantity of commodities assigned to them. Also Kerosene DKR is
developed based on active (FSC & AFSC) cards and the distribution policies of
Municipal Corporation, Mandal & Rural beneficiaries (Without Gas Connection).
EPoSS This module comprises of EPoSS devices implementation at FPShops. EPoSS
devices are being used to fetch the card and quantity of commodities details (generated
in DKR) at FP shops. After the distribution of requested amount of commodities post
back the balance commodities details to DKR for further distribution.
4.
INNOVATION APPLIED
information of the card holder on giving the FSC card reference number which is then
sent to NFSC along with the respective modifications. These are then inspected and
verified in NFSC and the necessary approvals are given with Digital signature by the
concerned officials and sent to the Meeseva kiosk. All the necessary details are given in
the form of a SMS to the beneficiary for collecting the modified and printed card.
UID seeding by fetching data from SRDH database Organic seeding of
placing UID / EID number against the FSC Card holders is being taken up in the NFSC
system for eliminating nonexistent and duplicate cards. For this the State Resident Data
Hub database of UID was used to verify the UIDs by a web service. This would fetch the
EID/UID name and the photograph which was used for verification before accepting the
seeding.
How & which new and emerging technology has been used?
The following are the Mutation web services that are provided to MeeSeva for citizen to
apply either directly at the MeeSeva or through Data Entry Operator along with required
documents for application (enclosures such as address proof / identity proofs / etc.).
Web services are used for linkage to the kiosk based applications at eSeva, UID
database of SRDH and Supply Chain Management software.
Distribution: Distribution of commodities using EPoSS and Dynamic Key Registers.
Digital Signatures are used for the approvals of any of the mutations.
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Inspector
Card search, all types of mutations in the FSC cards, applications, all gap
(MandalLevel
1-2
reports, day to day transactions in NFSC, Inspection reports on field
per mandal)
verification for MRO/ASO approvals.
Online FSC card search, seeding for all active members, checking for
duplicate UIDs for active members and displayed as report for rejecting
the bogus UID, finding duplicate UIDs on active cards of active
members, viewing allocation, allocation adjustments, entering the
ASO / Tahsildar
closing balances of commodities at FP Shops in between restricted
dates, commodity-wise RO report recorded at eSeva, generate current
(Mandal level
allotment proceedings attachments, shop-wise closing balances entry
500 Mandals approx)
screen, assign FP Shops to inspectors, tagging of cards, inactive and
active card, tagging the FP Shop to the MLS point, tagging the FP Shop
to wholesaler, new, transfer, approvals and rejections with digital
signature on ration card mutations etc.
Print approved FSC card, search a FSC card mutation, allocation, bulk
transfer FSC cards to any regular FP Shop, Kerosene Oil shop, Active
District Supply
card to inactive and inactive card to active, seeding of card, seeding
Officer ( 10 districts)
report, new, transfer, mutation reports, Tahsildar / ASO to Tahsildar /
ASO card transfers and shop transfers etc.
Creation of Users, roles, checking of user audit, fixing of allocation and
Admin
closing balance dates etc, checking of transaction audit trials, revoking
of passwords and users etc.
Check the functioning of the District level and Mandal officers by
Joint Collector / Chief
various monitoring reports and Transaction audit reports and activity
Ration officer
reports
( District level)
Allocation and Key Register generation for the entire state by fixing the
Deputy Director
allocation policy and rates of commodities. Monitoring the state
(State)
activity by various reports
Approval on New Cards by way of Policy enablement and monitoring of
Director (State)
all the state activities by various reports
Commiss-ioner, FCS
Monitoring of all the state activity by various reports
Key Register, Allocation of all commodities, Online Search, UID check,
FSC Card details of all districts, MLS point details and fair price shop
Public Domain
details , MeeSeva application status reports - reports
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Example: For generating the allocation of stock to be sent to all the fair price shops in a
month in NFSC
Data entry operator does seeding with Aadhaar numbers validated from SRDH
database for rejecting or accepting certain cards which are inspected by ASOs /
Tahsildars, maintains and manages cards by making inactive / active and transfer
and tagging of cards to shops etc.
MeeSeva kiosks take applications from card holders w.r.t. changes of member
deletion, cards deletion / surrender, change of fair price shops etc which are
immediately available in ASOs / Tahsildars login, who in turn send them to
inspectors for verification and after receiving inspector approval and inspector
report , they approve the same with digital signature.
All the approved and Digitally signed MeeSeva transactions get printed at the
MeeSeva kiosk.
ASOs / Tahsildars enter fair price shop wise closing balances within a specific time
period.
Total Card strength is taken into account and the Dynamic key registers are
generated for the month for the entire state by the deputy director.
After Commissioner Approval, Key registers are released to be printed as sale
registers for all fair price shops.
Allocation is then generated and eSeva kiosks start accepting fair price shop
payments based on this allocation and the payment data is immediately realized in
NFSC.
After payments are sent to NFSC, Release orders so generated are automatically
seen in MLS point logins for booking stock/commodities in Trucks to be sent to fair
price shops.
This entire cycle has to happen before the distribution of commodities which
starts from the 1st of every month.
From 1st the commodities distribution at the fair price shop begins through ePOS
devices and dynamic key registers.
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6.
SCALABILITY OF TECHNOLOGY
7.
SUSTAINABILITY OF INITIATIVE
Is the website / portal being used for revenue generation direct/indirect? How?
NFSC implementation resulted indirectly in
Savings on stock allocation after removal of bogus, Non-existent and duplicate cards
in NFSC.
Benefits to officials with respect to effort and time involved in maintaining the FSC
cards information, stock dispatch based on fair price shop dealer payments,
generation of various reports, proceedings etc.
Benefits to beneficiaries with respect to quality of service.
Does the web application require trained staff for operation/maintenance? Is the
organisation geared up towards the same? Is an Online Help/Tutorial available?
Yes. National Informatics Centre has conducted training programme for DIOs of
the State, eDistrict managers of State IT department and also some district level
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and state level resource persons who in-turn have conducted extensive training
programmes for its implementation.
Online help and Tutorials are available.
Also an exclusive programme of Mana TV featuring the training of NFSC, MeeSeva
etc. is being planned by the state IT department which is yet to be taken up by NIC.
8.
Is there a positive impact on the cost, effort and time incurred by the user How?
Yes
Citizen Friendly - Activation at the local officeIn cases of deactivation on account of migration, whenever a card holder comes
with his EID/UID the inspector verifies and the ASO activates the card based on Aadhar
data. So the system is citizen friendly to the genuine card holders. This is the main
reason why the insistence of submitting Aadhaar as ID proof was not resisted by card
holders. They realised that decentralised processes in NFSC is giving solution at the door
step. All the requests for new cards now come with Aadhaar proof.
SMS generation
SMS Messages are generated for FSC Card Application Approvals, Stock Issues and Stock
Receipts & Card Activations, etc.
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How has the web application increased the efficiency of the department
direct/indirect
The NFSC workflows facilitated improved efficiency in administering PDS. The benefits
accruing from the system are
The online allocation has removed any discretion at the field level. The field staff
are able to add new shops in NFSC and tag the FSC cards to the concerned shops.
The allocation to each shop is calculated in the system itself based on the cards in
the shop and the closing balances of the previous month. The closing balances are
now easier to monitor. The details of shop wise allocation are linked to eSeva. So
the dealers are able to directly go to eSeva and pay the amount for getting Release
Orders. Their time and energy is saved now, unlike before, wherein they had to
wait in the offices for getting manual allotment.
The requests from MeeSeva for different mutation services are now done in NFSC.
This is helping the changes getting reflected in database immediately after
approval by the ASO / Tahsildar.
All the activities of the dept are decentralized and the card holders can approach
their concerned ASO / Tahsildar office to get their work done. For any mutation
service they need not even approach the office. They can go to MeeSeva centre.
The main advantage of NFSC is that work is done in designated logins and a log is
maintained so as to pinpoint a person doing a work. This brings in more
accountability on the field staff.
NFSC is having important reports in public domain. The public can search a card,
see the Dynamic Key Register of any shop, and know the allocation of any shop.
Shortly seeding report, report on activities done by the field staff and other
important reports will be put in public. This will bring in more transparency to the
PDS.
Is there any financial saving for the department - give approx percentages
The cost effectiveness is proved beyond doubt when the Return on investment is
calculated. The validations in the NFSC software have plugged almost all leakages.
The seeding of Aadhaar has further helped the cause. The scenario in Hyderabad
District can be taken as an example.
The changed card position after introduction of NFSC processes and Aadhaar seeding
is given below. Deactivation of cards happened by collecting the list of dead
members through Aarogyasree database and by insisting on Aadhaar and checking
for duplicates before issuing new cards.
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9.
SECURITY
Software is SSL enabled.
The software is security audited and all the userids (approx 2500) are protected with
passwords.
Meeseva approvals are all digitally signed in NFSC and verified by the meeseva kiosks before
printing.
All the transactions are stored in history for retrieving at a later date as a transaction log.
All activities of all users are recorded online for future listing
Has the website been audited for security? Attach security certificate
Yes, Audit certificate is attached.
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DISTRICT
No. of
FPS
Total
Applications
AFSC
Cards
FSC Card
Annapurna
Cards
Rejected
Cards
Adilabad
1445
773556
53291
689094
33
31138
Hyderabad
891
918153
43243
771922
24
102964
Karimnagar
2061
1180704
67548
1020091
212
92853
Khammam
1200
749185
44971
675577
28633
Mahbubnagar
2312
1155336
67633
1011621
50
76032
Medak
1846
830626
55105
756094
47
19380
Nalgonda
2092
1053059
61750
931282
13
60014
Nizamabad
1341
657135
38472
587488
123
31052
Ranga Reddy
1904
1401496
76412
1115786
100
209198
10
Warangal
2124
1073882
59066
922830
91980
TOTAL
17,216
612 7,43,244
2. District Wise Units (Members associated with cards) As On 30th April, 2015
Sr.
No.
DISTRICT
Total
Applications
Total Units
Approved
Units
Temporary
Approved
Units
Rejected
Units
Adilabad
774206
2748540
2304215
86225
358100
Hyderabad
923946
3601113
2655442
117135
828536
Karimnagar
1182214
4059052
3058371
102153
898528
Khammam
751576
2366105
2035147
29361
301597
5 Mahbubnagar
1159295
4644425
3501867
318855
823703
Medak
831399
3117302
2474953
208930
433419
Nalgonda
1053771
3475965
2822856
83774
569335
Nizamabad
658550
2328241
2065277
21477
241487
Ranga Reddy
1409648
5141545
3766136
130206
1245203
10
Warangal
1075346
3478263
2925007
42534
510722
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3. Food Security Card Members Seeding Status Report As On 30th April, 2015
Sr.
No.
District
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
10
Adilabad
Hyderabad
Karimnagar
Khammam
Mahbubnagar
Medak
Nalgonda
Nizamabad
Ranga Reddy
Warangal
TOTAL
Total
Cards
Total
Units
Total
Approved
Units
Rejected Units
Units with
SRDH
Match
Units
without
SRDH
Match
Units
with
Blank
UID
% Seeding
774206
923946
1182214
751576
1159295
831399
1053771
658550
1409648
1075346
2748540
3601113
4059052
2366105
4644425
3117302
3475965
2328241
5141545
3478263
2390440
2772577
3160524
2064508
3820722
2683883
2906630
2086754
3896342
2967541
358100
828536
898528
301597
823703
433419
569335
241487
1245203
510722
2223236
2557398
2924339
1953643
3071482
2354163
2727366
1933850
3594543
2791804
95119
186512
161948
89346
499055
138359
160247
141694
283712
145979
72085
28667
74237
21519
250185
191361
19017
11210
18087
29758
93.01
92.24
92.53
94.63
80.39
87.71
93.83
92.67
92.25
94.08
98,19,951
3,49,60,551
2,87,49,921
62,10,630
2,61,31,824
19,01,971
7,16,126
90.89
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Organization
Email ID
G. Shivaji
Technical director
NIC
g.shivaji@nic.in
Vijay Mohan
NIC
vmohan.ap@nic.in
Email ID
commr_cs@telangana.g
ov.in
cro_cs@telangana.gov.i
n
dydir_pp_it2_cs@telan
gana.gov.in
dso_rr_cs@telangana.
gov.in