Enhancing Ration Provision: Biometric Integrated Transparent Smart Ration Distribution System

Abstract

A parliamentary act of India come to force in 2013 designed to supply financed food grains to nearly 100 crores peoples of country, the right to food act, the PDS has emerged as a revolutionary method designed to enhance the delivery of financed food grains to eligible families. This study aims to refine the ration provision system by incorporating biometric technologies and improving transparency. The research introduces an entirely automated platform named Smart Ration Distribution System (SRDS) which maintains a database of user profiles to monitor their monthly and annual consumption of various financed food grains. SRDS offers several benefits including reducing customer wait times, ensuring reliable authentication and identification of eligible individuals real-time tracking and monitoring of the distribution process enabling timely interventions and resource allocation based on demand patterns and reducing administrative burdens. Additionally, such a system could be effectively utilized for implementing other social welfare programs such as the Telangana Aasara Pension Scheme, Aarogyasri Ammavadi and Anganwadi. This project aims to develop a user-friendly highly secure biometric ration distribution system constructed using an Arduino controller under the supervision of a ration distributor.