PDS: The Aadhaar Way

(AePDS)

Direct Benefit Transfer (DBT) – 4 Phases

• Enrolment and Generation of Aadhaars

• Digitization and Seeding of databases.

• Supply driven schemes.

• Demand based schemes.

Biometric authentication

YES

OR

NO

One or more

One or more

Fingerpri

nt

Image

record

Fingerpri

nt

Minutiae

record

Any or All

Workflow of Aadhaar Online

Authentication

Aadhaar Holder

2 3 4

7 6 5

Authenticatio

n Devices

AUA Authentication

User Agency

ASA Authentication

Service

Agency

UIDAI

Databas

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1

8

ePOS

server at

State DC

BSNL

ePOS APP Server (10.10.5.27) Public IP - 164.100.132.46

ePOS APP Server (10.10.5.28) Public IP - 164.100.132.45

AUA APP Server (1st N/W Card 10.10.5.102) (2nd N/W Card BSNL-MPLS - 10.10.24.68)

AUA APP Server (1st N/W Card 10.10.5.103) (2nd N/W Card BSNL-MPLS) - 10.10.24.69

HTTP Server (10.10.5.27) with Public IP - 164.100.132.46

ePOS Database Server

BSNL Data Centre at Patancheru, Hyd

ASA Server (172.16.0.115)

Point of Sale terminals at Fair Price Shops

Ration card Database Server

HTTP Server (10.10.5.28) with Public IP - 164.100.132.45

UIDAI Greater Noida , New Delhi AADHAAR Authentication

Servers

ASA Server

Bangalore AADHAAR Authentication

Servers

ePOS Production Servers High Level Architecture

MPLS Between ASU & ASA

AP State Data Center (YSR Bhavan, Gachibowli)

What is/Why Seeding?

To identify & remove duplicate, non-existing beneficiaries

To implement AADHAAR based authentication at the Point of Sale (POS) i.e., at FPS

To enable PDS/direct cash transfer for various Government Schemes

If States do not have digitised database, UIDAI shares the UID-demographic data village-wise and the beneficiary identifier no ( Ration Card, Job card etc) can be seeded into this database.

Linking of Ration Card details, Aadhaar number, Name,

Bank Account Details and Mobile number.

Inorganic Seeding

Inorganic Seeding based on KYR+ and KYR (EID-UID files)

Ration Card Database – Key register

KYR+ data from Enrollment Agencies

UID-EID Mapping XML File

Name Comparison of Ration Card database with Aadhaar

Name

Exact Name Match by collapsing the spaces

Applying Soundex Matching with Surname

Applying Soundex Matching Without Surname

Organic Seeding

Services created in Ration Card Information System

Down load FPS wise statements as per Key Register

Print hardcopies and collect the data

Data entry from Tahsildar offices for receiving data

KYR fields are populated,

Reduce data entry effort

Verifying name of ration card member

Mobile No., Bank Name, Branch name, Account No. and Rejection

Remarks

Checksum

Seeding Process

Down load the PDF file (Ration Shop wise) from ICFS

and take a hard copy (sample)

Collect the details from the beneficiaries and complete

the hard copy (instructions)

Enter the data into the system Ration card wise and click

on update

View reports

Demonstration:

Online: https://epds.ap.gov.in/epdsAP/epds

ENROLMENT & SEEDING

East Adilabad Krishna

Godavari

No. of Mandals 60 52 50

Population as per Census – 2011 51,51,549 27,37,739 45,28,009

Aadhaar Number Generated 50,02,004 27,20,582 42,99,044

Total number of Ration cards 14,71,890 07,05,479 11,30,319

Units in RCs (preseeding) 47,11,836 24,69,176 34,12,489

Units in RCs (postseeding) 43,83,694 19,25,957 31,97,912

No. of Units seeded 39,54,295 18,48,169 31,62,428

Important Prerequisites for AePDS

Digitised Ration card database and associated legacy platform including Dynamic Key Register.

Saturation of Enrolment (Village or Mandal (Tehsil) or Block)

KYR and KYR plus

Inorganic & Organic Seeding of Aadhaar in Ration Card Database

Identifying Pilot Shops

Identifying implementation partner for Point of Sale (PoS) Devices and Client software

Identifying Authentication Service Agency

Finalization of ePoS Architecture

Connectivity/Network Survey

Training and Test Run

Identifying PILOT SHOPS

Criteria

Where the seeding is in advanced stage

FPS dealer having Aadhaar numbers

Representative sample (urban, rural, agency area)

Cash Transfer – Wholesale Dealer

Identifying Implementation

partner

Having experience in Biometric related authentication

PoS Device manufacturer (OEM)

Having internal software development team

Experience in similar internet based PoS systems

UIDAI/STQC certified.

Technology

J2EE / Java, Ajax, struts frame work

Oracle database

PoS client software: implementation partner

e-PoS server: IT-Wing of Dept

e-PoS server is the component which links PoS devise, AUA server, Ration Card Database and e-PoS transaction database.

AUA server: IT&C department.

ASA : BSNL

e-PoS MIS Server: IT-Wing of F& CS department.

High availability architecture implemented.

Training

Training for FP Shop Owners,VROs,VRAs, Tahsildars,ASOs,DSO for two days at

district head quarters

Hand holding and technical support :

one person for every 10 shops by implementation partner for initial period

One co-ordinator at district head quarters by implementation partner

TOT team by District Administration

Services in e-PoS Application

Delivery of items to the FPS dealer by Route Officer

Route Officer Authentication

Best finger Detection

Online Authentication – Iris & Finger Print

Exception Handling – Facilitating Ration drawal for all beneficiaries

Local OTP/SMS

VRO Authentication

VRA Authentication

Tahsildar/ASO Authentication

Linkage to Weighing Machine.

Sale of PDS commodities

Addition of new commodities

Aadhaar seeding

Complaints registration

FP Shop

FP Shop

Present Operations & Results

511 Shops in Krishna Districts.

More than 1 lakh transactions per day

More than 95% auth success rate initially and improved to 99% accuracy in first month with fusion authentication.

Consumers getting all commodities at a time.

15 to 20% savings in the first month of operations for rice, palm oil.

Nearly 15% saving for sugar.

Nearly 40% saving in Kerosene

Permanent Enrolment Centers

e-PoS MIS: http://scm.ap.gov.in/ePos/login.jsp

Transaction Time

Stage of authentication Processing Time

GPRS Broadband

Get Ration Card Details 5 to 6 secs 2 to 3 secs

BFD (Only one-time) 10 secs 5 to 6 secs

Seeding 3 to 4 secs 1 to 3 secs

Authentication 5 to 7 secs 3 to 5 secs

OTP 5 to 7 secs 1 to 3 secs

Commodities 4 to 5 secs 2 to 4 secs

Next Steps

Roll out to all 2149 shops in Krishna Distict from May 2015.

Roll out in the entire state – 500 shops in each district from

May 2015.

Linking SCM/Mandal Level Stock points

Linking FCI deliveries to MLS points.

Comprehensive AeRCMS (Aadhaar enabled Ration Card

Management System) through PoS with authentication and

deduplication:

Applying for new ration cards

Adding/ deleting members to the ration card etc

Mutations and Transfers etc.

Challenges

Training and Process Stabilization

Connectivity achieved with mix of GPRS

Establishing an Antenna for GPRS for PoS

Broadband

WIMAX

CDMA

Network Survey conducted for 1446 shops and 100 already has one of the options.

Iris device integration.

ADSL Type I modem with power from device

Scenario pre-Aadhaar enabled PDS (AePDS)

Manual Allotment – Dynamic Key Register

Route Officer stock deliveries not monitored real-time.

Lack of information to Card holders on arrival of stocks. Multiple Visits

Real Beneficiary or Not?

No tracking of stock distribution

No Billing and Incomplete Manual Records/Stock details

Leakages

Improper Calculation of closing balance

Routine inspections with incomplete data

Scenario post - Aadhaar enabled PDS

(AePDS)

Accuracy in Closing Balance and allotment

Route officer delivery monitored online.

Information to card holders

Real Beneficiaries only

Savings

Card holder satisfaction

Stock visibility

Complete MIS.

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Thank you

Babu A

District Collector

Krishna

Government of Andhra Pradesh

babuahamedias@gmail.com

ababu@ias.nic.in