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Automation in Rationing System Using Arm 7

A.N.Madur1, Sham Nayse2
G.H.Raisoni College of Engineering & Management, Chas, Ahmednagar, India1
Department of Electronics and Telecommunication Engineering2

Abstract: Public distribution system i.e. rationing distribution is one of the widely controversial issues that involves
corruption and illegal smuggling of goods. All these happen because every job in the ration shop involves manual work
and there are no specific high-tech technologies to automate the job. Because of intervention of manual work there are
lots of illegal activity occurs. The illegal activities are like, wrong entry in register of shop about the amount of
products that given to the people, sometimes there is chance of distribution of low quality products than actual product
provided by government for poor people, people do not have idea about how much quantity of good provided by
government to them etc. In this paper we propose the concept about to replace manual work in public distribution
system (rationing distribution system) by automated system which will be installing at the ration shop .In this
automated system we replace the convectional ration card by smart card in which all the details of user provided. This
prompted us to interface smart card reader (RFID Based) to the ARM. Government should have control over all
transaction happen at ration shop, to involve government in the process we can connect the system which is at ration
shop to the government database via GSM module.

Keywords: ARM, GSM, RFID.

I. INTRODUCTION

1.1 PDS Situation in INDIA:

India’s Public Distribution System (PDS) with a number of people through a network on a recurring basis
network of 4.78 Lakh Fair Price Shops (FPS) is perhaps in an automated way. The Concept is to automate the
the largest retail system of its type in the world. One of the Public Distribution System (PDS), A Govt. Of India
main problems with this system is the inefficiency in the initiative Process in which a fixed amount of ration is
targeting of beneficiaries and the resulting leakage of provided monthly to the people by the PDS stores.
subsidies. The TPDS system today supports over 40 Crore Because of the increased corruption in the market sector
Indians below the poverty line with monthly supply of can be prevented if system becomes automated, increased
subsidized food grains. The system also provides gainful adulteration can be prevented as well, the hoarding done
employment for 4.78 Lakh. Fair Price Shops Owners, their by the officials and labourers of Govt. Super Bazaars
employees and hired labour who work at the FCI and state (PDS Stores) which in turn leads to price hike can be
warehousing go downs. One of the main problems with prevented using this system. The apparatus used for
this system is the inefficiency in the targeting of designing is cost effective and can prove helpful to Govt.
beneficiaries and the resulting leakage of subsidies. The of India’s PDS System and to various other disciplines.
Planning Commission had the following to say on the PDS In terms of feasibility it is a vast concept and an interesting
system in its 2005 report. many systemic challenges that task to perform and totally feasible in all aspects technical
plague the PDS system today “For every Rs 4 spent on the as well as other [4].
PDS, only Rs 1 reaches the poor” .“57% of the PDS food
grain does not reach the intended people ”.many systemic 1.3 Existing Rationing System:
challenges that plague the PDS system today are PDS 1.3.1 Waste, Leakages and Diversion:-
Leakages, Scale and Quality of Issue, System The Planning Commission (2008) has estimated
Transparency and Accountability, Grievance Redressed how much of the TPDS (Targeted Public Distribution
Mechanisms[9]. These drawbacks are overcome by System) rice and wheat are leaked. Hence, more than half
automation. (54%) of the grain taken off for the TPDS disappeared
1.2 Automation System: before it reached buyers in the FPS. Moreover, the
The word Automation means doing the particular task leakages have increased compared to 1993-94 and 1999-
automatically in a sequence with faster operation rate. This 2000, and are estimated at 28%.
requires the use of microprocessor together with
communication network and some relevant software That about half the TPDS grains is leaked before reaching
consumers reflects inefficiency, corruption and theft on a
gigantic scale [1]. Ministry of Consumer Affairs, Food and
programming [7]. “Automation in rationing system” Public Distribution Department of Food and Public
means distribution of essential commodities to a large Distribution Annual Plan 2011-12 is as follow:

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TABLE I: ESTIMATED CONSUMPTION OF TPDS RICE & WHEAT control openings of ration outlet etc. no involvement of
AS A PERCENTAGE OF TPDS OFF-TAKE, RURAL & URBAN
any person directly with distribution system, also whether
AREAS.
kerosene disposition is also sensed at web site using
1993- 1999- 2004- 2007- proximity sensor through web giving a clear idea about
1994 2000 2005 2008 delivery of it.[3]
1]TPDS 10.64 12.290 13.53 18.93
1.3.3 Bar-coded ration cards:-
consumption
Issue of new BARCODED RATION CARDS having 2D
2] TPDS off- 14.7 17.11 29.65 33.12
take
barcode on it. BARCODE contains some crucial
3] ={[2]-[1] }/[2] 28 28 54 43 information of Ration card.
Leakage(%) i) The BIOMETRIC data of at least 1 member/card is
captured as per ISO standard (ISO 19794-4 and 19794-2
1] Main Plan Scheme is: (minutiae))
i)Construction of Go downs by FCI/State Govts. ii) Establishing the identity of a person through
ii)Integrated Information System for Food grains (IISFM) convergence of Ration Card data with EPIC, BPL, GAS,
iii)Computerization of PDS Operations Electricity, Job Cards and Khedutkhatedar .Food coupons
iv) Strengthening of PDS & Capacity Building to the beneficiaries to avail the commodity covered in
v) NSI, Kanpur 6. Consultancies, Training & Research Public Distribution System. The food coupons can be
vi) Village Grain Bank printed from e-gram/cyber café on biometric verification
vii) Warehousing Development and Regulatory Authority of beneficiaries.
2] Total Plan Outlay for the 11th Five year Plan for the
Department was Rs. 694 crores. II. MAIN PROBLEMS IN THE CONVENTIONAL
3] The Total Expenditure during the first 4 years of the PDS SYSTEM
11th Five year Plan is 231.93 crores. i) Illegal Usage
4] Expenditure in 2007-08- Rs.52.04 Cr. 2008-09- ii) Cannot able to get the accurate quantity of supplies
Rs.46.08Cr. 2009-10- Rs. 69.07 Cr. 2010-11- Rs. 64.74 iii) Over crowd
Cr.The Department submitted the Annual Plan proposal
2011-12 to the Planning Commission for making BE iv) Cannot able to get the material at any time
provision of Rs.342.61 crores. Which, included Rs.225 v) Processing speed is slow
crores for construction of go downs as an additional vi) Selection of households – Targeting
amount. vii) Bogus cards
5] Planning Commission made an allocation of Rs. 120 viii) Hijacking of ration cards
crores to the Department for the Annual Plan 2011-12. ix) Poor quality of supplies
6] Expenditure up to August 2011 is Rs. 75,000 only. [2] x) More than the prescribed rates are charged
1.3.2 Web enabled ration distribution system :- To overcome those problems, we are going for the
To overcome one of the corruption problem involve Automation of ration shop.
in ration distribution system through Hooper valve to

III. PROPOSED SYSTEM

4X4
WEIGH SIGNAL A
T KEYPAD
CONDITION D
SENSO G
R C ARM

SOLENOID RELA 16X2 LCD

MICROCONTROLLER
Y
UART0 UART1

RF ID GSM

MODULE MODULE

RF ID MOBILE
GSM
CARDS MODULE

Fig 3.1: Block Diagram of Proposed System

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START
T
INITIALISE LCD & INITIALISE
UART
A

READ RFID TURN ON VALVE THROUGH RELAY

STORE NUMBERS READ ADC

NUMBER
PRESENT ADC VALUE
IN =ENTERED
DATABASE?? AMOUNT???

ACCESS DENIED READ KEYPAD

TURN OFF VALVE THROUGH RELAY

CORRECT UPDATE ACCOUNT

PASSWORD???

SEND UPDATE DETAILS THROUGH GSM

SHOW USER NAME & BALANCE IN

KG
STOP

ENTER KG
THROUGH
KEYPAD

VALUE
=<BALANCE

A
Fig 3.2: Flow Chart of Proposed System

Benefits: Once the count will reach to the entered amount controller
1. Increased corruption in the Govt. As well as market automatically shutdown the valve and update the account
sector can be prevented if system becomes automated of the customer. We can send this update account
2. Increased adulteration in consumables can be prevented information to customer’s mobile using GSM module. In
3. The problem of hoarding at Govt. Super Bazaars (PDS this system we made the data base of customers with
Stores) that gives rise to price hike can be prevented their account details, password etc.
4. Cost effective approach
5. Time saving approach CONCLUSION
As this system is a propose system we can see that by
IV. RESULT using such a system we can avoid corruption in
This system is based on Radio Frequency ration/public distribution system to a large extend. This
Identification of customer. Here each customer is system has greater scope in future. As there is no manual
provided with RFID cards. In traditional ration card data stored and all information is stored in database, the
system, customer can take his quota by showing ration higher authority can check the details as and when it’s
card at shop at once, but in this system, by using RFID necessary through the use of servers.
and password. First user is authenticated, Then system
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BIOGRAPHY

Aruna Madur, ME (E&TC), SGREF,COEM,

Ahmednagar.

Mr. Sham Nayse, Working as Asst. Prof. in the

Department of E & TC Engineering, of RMD, Sinhgad
collage of Engineering,Warje,Pune.

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