The department of Civil Supplies of AP planned to bring the reforms in the Public Distribution System (PDS) with use of Information Technology to give better, pool proof and efficient services to the citizens of Andhra Pradesh. Part of this APCSD floated the tenders to select the right vendors to execute the project called House Hold Card Project (Ration Card Project) across the State of Andhra Pradesh, using the latest IRIS technology (Capturing the Retinas) by capturing the data, photo of family, capturing IRIS of entire family members and issue the cards in the spot by deploying the required manpower and material at the location where the cards to be issued called DPL (Designated Photography Location).

In the tender process Terasoft was selected for 5 districts of Andhra Pradesh to issue approximately 45 lakhs of ration cards which include BPL – Below Poverty Line Cards – White, APL-Above Poverty Line Cards – Pink and issue coupons for Rice and Kerosene. The main objective of the project is that to identify the real PDS beneficiaries and streamline the PDS system.

 

Role & Scope of the Work is detailed below:

It is perceived that it will be the responsibility of the agency i.e. to

  1. Deploy all the Hardware (Server, 5-nodes, color laser printer, mono laser printer, laminating machine, cutting machine, digital camera, IRIS camera, LAN-Switch and other consumables.
  2. Maintain the Hardware regularly up to pre-determined standards.
  3. Keep the set up at all the locations functional and operational.
  4. Install all the requisite software at various locations and provide for software up gradation whenever necessary.
  5. Consumables as per the requirement
  6. It is the responsibility of the agency to transfer the data on daily basis at the district server / server in the IGR’s office.
  7. Provide electric cabling & make power arrangement
  8. Provide six operators and network administrator for every location.
  9. Provide UPS and Generator backup in case of power failure.

 

The contract is to provide the infrastructure at the 150 DPL centers and also provide required facility management (manpower, consumables, maintenance of equipment) for entire project period. The nature of job is to enter data of family, photo of family, capturing IRIS of entire family members, printing of cards, coupons and lamination of cards.

 

  • Each family’s data is digitized
  • IRIS of the family members is captured for analyzing and identification of duplicates.
  • Generated a revenue of Rs.12+ Crore
  • Per each Ration card the user charges are collected by the department.