CORE PDS is to de-link beneficiary from FPS and give the beneficiary choice of selecting FPS where from she wants to take her ration. The FPS in CORE PDS has a POS device/Kiosk
(Where ever POS device is mentioned in this document it may be read as POS/Kiosk) and all beneficiaries of that FPS shall have smart cards. Those FPSs who are ready with connectivity, smart cards and POS device shall be in
CORE PDS. The beneficiaries from these FPSs can take their ration from any of the FPSs in CORE PDS. The following procedure will be followed to issue PDS commodities to a beneficiary in FPS in CORE PDS.
* Beneficiary swipes the card, selects the family member and places the finger print
* Member Name, Finger print , card number is sent to the central sever
* If the beneficiary has bio metric details and opted for bio-metric authentication the details are sent to ADHAAR server for authentication.
* Once card is authenticated, available balance commodity details are shown in the POS
* FPS enters commodities being issued with his card swiping
* The quantities are deducted from the balances on central server and success report is given to POS for further processing
* SMS is given to the registered mobile (if any) with the card with the transaction details
FPSs in CORE PDS will be periodically replenished by the commodities sold in that period.
