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Aadhaar enabled Supply Chain Management, Vijaywada, Government of
Andhra Pradesh

Supply chain management system is a very important component of Targeted Public distribution System
(TPDS) which deals with procuring grains at the Minimum Support Price (MSP) from farmers,
maintaining operational and buffer stocks of grains to ensure food security, allocating grains to states,
distributing and transporting grains to the state depots, and selling the grains to states at the central issue
price to be eventually passed on to the beneficiaries. Each stage of this process is discussed below.
However, this system was fraught with many difficulties such as inefficiency, deterioration of food
grains, unsatisfactory quality of commodities, malpractices in weights and measures, mismatch of
demand and supply, long waiting times, exorbitant corruption, rude behavior of shopkeepers and poor
service delivery. The Government of Andhra Pradesh which is a front runner in technology has
automated the complete Supply chain management to fix all loopholes to bring complete transparency to
the process.

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