In order to make Targeted Public Distribution System (TPDS) work more efficiently, Government has approved implementation of a pilot scheme on Smart Card based delivery of essential commodities under TPDS in Union Territory of Chandigarh and State of Haryana.
Under it, eligible Below Poverty Line (BPL) families would be issued Smart Card in place of existing ration cards.
They will have bio-metric features of the family members, based on which verification of genuineness of BPL families will take place and only thereafter the essential commodities would be issued to them from the Fair Prices Shops.