SMART-PDS is a technological driven initiative and the need of hour, therefore, all the States/UTs should make earnest efforts to implement SMART-PDS at the earliest, said Shri Piyush Goyal, Union Minister of Consumer Affairs, Food and Public Distribution.
About SMART-PDS
- SMART-PDS or Scheme for Modernization and Reforms through Technology in Public Distribution System aims to leverage the usage of Cloud and new age technology in the public distribution system.
- It is a transparent and accountable system which reduces human intervention and promote automation in the existing processes.
- The Union Minister appreciated Andhra Pradesh Command Control and stated that Central Government along with State Government will work together for implementing in other states also.
- India’s first-of-its-kind Central Command Control Centre to monitor Public Distribution System (PDS) in the country from procurement of grains to their distribution to households was started functioning in the city of Vijayawada in Andhra Pradesh. The system integrates, tracks and monitors activities from paddy procurement to rice distribution of cardholders at their doorsteps in real-time.
