"PDS can leverage the Aadhaar authentication and we are keen to engage with PDS. Aadhaar-linked authentication will enable individual entitlements.
"Aadhaar authentication shifts the system from a push to a pull model and we need to apply a replenishment model in PDS," UIDAI Chairman Nandan Nilekani said this while addressing a conference of food secretaries on best practices and reforms in targeted public distribution system in New Delhi on Tuesday.
The conference was to launch a pilot scheme on smart card-based delivery of essential commodities under the targeted PDS in Haryana and Chandigarh.
"Technologies such as global positioning system should be for tracking of movement of PDS commodities, bar-coded ration coupons, measures to digitise the ration card database and smart-cards for beneficiaries, biometric identification," Food and Agriculture Minister Sharad Pawar said.
Image: Nandan Nilekani