Blockchain Solution for Public Distribution System

Authors

  • Prof. Pravin Jangid  Department of Computer Engineering, Shree L.R Tiwari College of Engineering, Thane, Maharashtra, India
  • Varsha Jain  Department of Computer Engineering, Shree L.R Tiwari College of Engineering, Thane, Maharashtra, India
  • Darshana Mule  Department of Computer Engineering, Shree L.R Tiwari College of Engineering, Thane, Maharashtra, India
  • Shipra Poojary  Department of Computer Engineering, Shree L.R Tiwari College of Engineering, Thane, Maharashtra, India
  • Ratnesh Sahani  

DOI:

https://doi.org//10.32628/CSEIT2390255

Keywords:

PDS, Blockchain, Supplychain, Food Security, Transparency, Scalability

Abstract

The Public Distribution System (PDS) in India is essential to supply food grains produced by farmers to the people who are below poverty line. It is a system for distribution of food grains at affordable prices. However, the current PDS system is plagued by various issues, delayed payments and mismanagement of stock being the primary one. This work aims to use blockchain technology, one of the cutting edge technologies, to overcome these issues and make the PDS a digital, secure, transparent and scalable system. Blockchain provides transparency such that the user can track food grains and all the key data would be recorded throughout the supply chain. The system requires minimal human intervention. To facilitate payments to the farmers and millers business logic through smart contract is implemented. The proposed PDS blockchain system was implemented in public blockchain and was tested for different use cases.

References

  1.  ‘Introduction to Public Distribution System.’ Department of Food and Public Distribution, Government of India, Web, https://dfpd.gov.in/pdIntroduction.htm.
  2. Sowmya Dhanaraj and Smit Gade. Universal PDS: efficiency and equity dimensions. Available at SSRN 2020130, 2012
  3. Gilati, saini 2015; Himanshu, Sen 2013; Drèze and Khera 2015. National Sample Survey Organization, rounds 61 and 68.
  4. Parul Gupta and Upender Singh. Efficiency of public distribution system: Insights and challenges. Delhi Business Review, 17(1):79:95,2016.
  5. N. Hitwasi and K.Chandrasekaran. Agent Based Social Simulation Model and Unique Identification Based Empirical Model for Public Distribution System. In 2017 International Conference on Recent Advances in
  6. Gupta, Parul and Singh, Upender. Efficiency of public distribution system: Insights and challenges. Delhi Business Review, 17(1):79:95,2016.
  7. Jabbar, S., Lloyd, H., Hammoudeh, M. et al. Blockchain-enabled supply chain: analysis, challenges, and future directions. Multimedia Systems (2020). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00530-020-00687-
  8. Mudassir, M., Bennbaia, S., Unal, D., Hammoudeh, M.: Timeseries forecasting of bitcoin prices using high-dimensional features: a machine learning approach. Neural Computing and Applications 1–15 (2020).
  9. Unal, D., Hammoudeh, M., Kiraz, M. S.: Policy specification and verification for blockchain and smart contracts in 5g networks, ICT Express 6 (2020) 43 – 47. http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S240595951930181X . https://doi.org/10.1016/j.icte.2019.07.002 .
  10. Jangirala, S., Das, A.K., Vasilakos, A.V.: Designing secure lightweight blockchain-enabled rfd-based authentication protocol for supply chains in 5g mobile edge computing environment. IEEE Transactions on Industrial Informatics (2019).
  11. Kravitz, D. W.: Transaction immutability and reputation traceability: Blockchain as a platform for access controlled iot and human interactivity, in: 2017 15th Annual Conference on Privacy, Security and Trust (PST), IEEE, pp. 3–309 (2017).
  12. Koirala, R. C., Dahal, K., Matalonga, S.: Supply chain using smart contract: a blockchain enabled model with traceability and ownership management, in: 2019 9th International Conference on Cloud Computing, Data Science & Engineering (Confluence), IEEE, pp. 538–544 (2019).
  13. Imeri, A., Khadraoui, D.: The security and traceability of shared information in the process of transportation of dangerous goods, in: 2018 9th IFIP International Conference on New Technologies, Mobility and Security (NTMS), IEEE, pp. 1–5 , (2018).
  14. Yapa, I., Heanthenna, S., Bandara, N., Prasad, I., Mallawarachchi, Y., Decentralized ledger for land and property transactions in sri lanka acresense, in, : IEEE region 10 humanitarian technology conference (R10HTC). IEEE 2018, 1–6 (2018).
  15. "A Blockchain-based Approach for Enhancing the Efficiency of Public Distribution System" by Priyanka Priyadarshani and Abhijeet Kumar. This paper proposes a blockchain-based PDS system that addresses the challenges of corruption, leakages, and inefficiencies in the distribution of food grains.
  16. "Blockchain-based Public Distribution System for India" by Vignesh Nandhakumar, Karthick Rajendran, and Shubhanga Pandey. This paper proposes a blockchain-based PDS system that enables secure and transparent distribution of food grains to beneficiaries in India.
  17. "Blockchain-based Public Distribution System for Developing Countries" by Ahmed Zekriya and Mubashir Hussain. This paper proposes a blockchain-based PDS system that addresses the challenges of corruption, fraud, and inefficiencies in the distribution of food grains in developing countries.
  18. "A Blockchain-based Public Distribution System for Bangladesh" by Mohammad Zakiur Rahman, Abu Hena Mostafa Kamal, and Mohammad Arifur Rahman. This paper proposes a blockchain-based PDS system that ensures transparency, accountability, and efficiency in the distribution of food grains in Bangladesh.
  19. "Blockchain-based Public Distribution System for Indonesia" by Faisal Ali and Tri Kuntoro Priyambodo. This paper proposes a blockchain-based PDS system that ensures transparency, accountability, and efficiency in the distribution of rice to beneficiaries in Indonesia.

IInternational Journal of Scientific Research in Computer Science, Engineering and Information Technology

Downloads

Published

2023-04-30

Issue

Volume 9, Issue 2, March-April-2023

Section

Research Articles

License

Copyright (c) IJSRCSEIT

Creative Commons License

This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.

How to Cite

[1]
Prof. Pravin Jangid, Varsha Jain, Darshana Mule, Shipra Poojary, Ratnesh Sahani, " Blockchain Solution for Public Distribution System, IInternational Journal of Scientific Research in Computer Science, Engineering and Information Technology(IJSRCSEIT), ISSN : 2456-3307, Volume 9, Issue 2, pp.424-433, March-April-2023. Available at doi : https://doi.org/10.32628/CSEIT2390255