Digital Initiatives to modernize the Public Distribution System (PDS)
- Union Food & Public Distribution Ministry launched several digital platforms to modernise PDS operations, warehousing and logistics.
- Anna Sahayata Holistic AI Solution (ASHA)
- AI-based platform enabling PDS beneficiaries to share feedback via AI-enabled multilingual calls.
- Features: multilingual translation, sentiment analysis, automated grievance categorisation, real-time dashboards.
- Reaches 20 lakh beneficiaries per month.
- Bhandaran 360
- Central Warehousing Corporation’s (CWC) new Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) system with 41 integrated modules (HR, finance, warehouse management, contracts, projects, etc.).
- Implemented ahead of schedule.
- Smart EXIM Warehouse System
- For container freight stations and general warehouses.
- ANNA DARPAN
- New microservices-based platform replacing the older Depot Online System.
- It integrates and connects all key grain operations.
- It serves as a single unified source of truth for both the FCI and the Department of Food & Public Distribution.
