PUBLIC DISTRIBUTION SYSTEM – IMPROVING EFFICIENCY AND REACH

Presented By:

Paresh Uppal

Antara Mukherjee

Vidit Pandey

Sameer Arora

Siddharth Agarwal

6S FRAMEWORK FOR PDS

Basic Aims of Life

Physical Mental

Short term Long Term Short Term Long term

Sustainability

Survival

V Health

E

D

Stability

V Livelihood

E

D

Strength

V

E

Rights fulfillment

D

Success

V

E

D

Superiority

V

E D

V – Vital E – Essential D - Desirable

Affected party(BPL families) approach

Entities Current State Desired State

Food Corporation of India

People-BPL, Antodaya

Public distribution System

Improper Storage of Food

Inefficient Distribution system

Leakage to non target beneficiaries

Good Storage systems

Efficient Distribution system

PROBLEM SPECIFICATION

Guaranteed and effective delivery to the desired

beneficiaries

MISSION

To improve the reach and efficiency of the Public Distribution System and

VISION

Every deserving human receives adequate nutrition

PROPOSED SOLUTION

1. Improve infrastructure for cold storage 2. Re-think the Supply Chain for PDS/National Food Security Ordinance 3. De-politicize the system; privatize and involve logistics companies

• Reduction in subsidies by Rs. 1.98 can save Rs. 154 Cr annually and can be re-invested for developing cold storage infrastructure (See attached excel file)

IMPROVING INFRASTRUCTURE

RE-THINKING THE SUPPLY CHAIN

• Currently, the government wants to pick up grains from farmers, warehouse and then re-distributing to the BPL

• This brings in numerous inefficiencies

• We need to utilize private 3PL providers to pick up create an efficient model of distribution

• All the cash transfer should be done independent of delivery and should be carried out by the Government via Direct Cash Transfer

• PDS should include pulses and other nutritional elements in order to ensure complete health well-being

• PDS should be tracked using new technologies in the system to take care of unscrupulous activity in the food supply chain

• NGOs can be involved to distribute food surplus in “office food courts” to the nearby rural areas

- Such an initiative has been taken by students of IIT Madras to distribute surplus food in mess area to the poor in and around Chennai

LONG TERM VIEW OF PDS