The document summarizes initiatives and statistics related to Kerala's Public Distribution System. It provides statistics on ration cards, beneficiaries, and fair price shops. It then describes several innovative programs and technologies implemented in Kerala's PDS, including using a mobile app for inspections, delivering rations by autorickshaw, operating subsidized hotels, and issuing ration cards to guest workers. It concludes by outlining some key achievements like Aadhaar seeding and online services, as well as future planned projects like building scientific grain warehouses and automated ration vending vehicles.

1. Innovative initiatives in
Public Distribution Systemof
Kerala

2. Statistics
 Districts -14
 Rationing Taluks – 83
 LSG wards – 21908
 Fair Price Shops – 14155
 Total Ration Cards – 93,88,438
 Total Beneficiaries – 3,52,10,685
 AAY Card Holders (AAY - Yellow) – 5,87,096
 PHH Card Holders (PHH - Pink) – 35,54,076
 Non Priority Subsidy (NPS - Blue) – 22,99,934
 Non Priority Non Subsidy (NPNS - White) – 29,19,249
 Non Priority Institutions (NPI - Brown) – 28,083

3. “Uniform Color
code”
Change in Physical appearance with Red & Yellow Color
pattern

4. “K-Store”
• Additional services offered through FPS
• Started in May 2023
• CSC Services
• Banking services(Upto Rs.10,000/-)
• Mini Maveli Store - 51 Supplyco Products
• Chottu Gas
• MILMA Products
• Products of MSMEs
• Products of Meat Products of India(MPI)
Ltd

5. “Interactive website
for Ration shop
dealers”
• Long pending complaints
• Faulty updations of their remittance to the
welfare fund
• Non issuance of ID Cards
• Untraceability of applications for various
benefits
• Lack of fair treatment at Civil Supplies
Department Offices
• Resolved all issues by introducing
• www.rationdealerswelfare.kerala.gov.in

6. “Online inspections
- FPS Mobile App”
I. Categorized the offences as Mild,
Medium and Grave and fixed action
against each of those sets of violations
II. Introduced FPS Mobile App after giving
sufficient trainings to all 332 Rationing
Inspectors for the time bound completion
of inspections in 14003 Fair Price Shops
III. Now the system decides the
penalty/action to be taken against FPS
owners based on the answers to the 26
yes/no questions in the Mobile App.
IV. It takes only 8 minutes to complete
one inspection in a Fair Price Shop

7. “OPPAM”
• Autorickshaw drivers in the
locality will deliver ration articles
at the doorsteps
• People who belong to ‘extremely
poor’ families who cannot visit
PDS shops
• Due to old age, locomotor
disability, illnesses or other
issues

8. “Subhiksha Hotels”
• As part of ‘hunger free Kerala’ project by GoK
• Aims at providing food at low price
• Rs.20/- for a meal
• Government will give the units Rs.5/- as subsidy
for each meal
• Other items at Subsidized Rates

9. “Mobile Ration Shop to
Tribal areas”
• To ensure food security of tribal people
living in remote areas
• Every month the Civil Supplies Officials
visit hamlets and distribute ration
articles
• The project is run in association with
Forest & Tribal Departments

10. “Ration Right Card(RRC)”
• Aim to increase the distribution of Ration among the guest workers under ONORC
• RRC card will be issued by Civil Supplies Department
• RRC will be in 5 Languages(Bengali, Assamese, Hindi, Odia, and Tamil)
• Civil Supplies Department will use a web form to gather information for the RRC.
• Every month on the first, officials will hold RRC camps.
• Guest workers will listed under 3 category
1. Having Aadhaar & Ration Card – RRC will be issued directly
2. Aadhaar only - Ration card will be made available with help of their Home
State
3. No Aadhaar & Ration Card – Aadhaar will be made available in cooperation
with their State Home Department, followed by
Ration cards.
• On August 14, 2023, a State-level inauguration was held at the Ernakulam District's
Perumbavoor (the main Hub)
• The project is run in cooperation with Home and Revenue Departments

11. “Achievements”
• AADHAAR seeding 100% completed
• e PoS based ration dispensation in 99.95% Fair Price Shops (13996/14003)
• Distributes Ragi in powder form in all FPS
• In all 101 offices of the Department files move only through e-Office
• All 17 ration card services offered are made online
• Online Grievance Redressed for last one year – Closing percentage 99.5%(23,66,609 cleared)
• Internal Audit completed till 31.03.2022 for all 101 offices (2022-23 is ongoing)
• Operation Yellow – To find fake beneficiaries (From 01.09.2022 till date)
1,82,239 fake cards removed from the system
Rs. 8,99,32,574/- fine collected
• Thelima Project – Campaign to correct errors in ration cards (From Nov 15 – Dec 15 every year) -
29,506 complaints cleared

12. “Projects in Pipeline”
• Taluk level Scientific Godowns for
professional storage of grains
Source of Fund:- Agriculture Infrastructure Fund(AIF)

13. “Projects in Pipeline………..cont.”
Automated Ration Vending Vehicles
Source of Fund:- MLA Fund
Input method will be a ATM type card

14. Dr D Sajith Babu IAS
Commissioner of Civil Supplies
Department of Civil Supplies & Consumer Affairs
Government of Kerala