UPSC Civil Services Model Paper 2

● The beneficiary verification process, The new system will work with help from technology.
The beneficiaries will be verified through biometric authentication i.e. Aadhaar, and electronic point of sale (ePOS) devices will be installed at the outlets.
● How will the ration card portability system work?
Under this, a person can buy his/her share of food grains as per his/her entitlement under the NFSA act 2013. Hence statement 1 is correct.
◦ The technological platform required for the ‘one nation one ration card’ scheme will be provided by the Integrated Management of Public Distribution System (IM-PDS) portal ( http://www.impds.nic.in/). Hence statement 2 is correct.
◦ This portal will make it possible for the migrant workers to purchase food grains from any FPS located in any state of the country.
◦ The other portal that will host the data regarding the food grains distribution through ePOS within a state is annavitran.nic.in.
◦ Once the ‘one nation one ration card’ system takes effect in a given state, the beneficiary family can purchase food grains from different locations.
◦ For example, a migrant worker staying in a different state can buy his or her share of the subsidized food grains from any FPS in the state where they work while the remaining family members will be able to buy their quota of the supplies back at home.