Barcode Technology – A Solution to Reduce Black Marketing in Rationing Shops

A fair price rationing shops have been organized by an Indian state government for the welfare of economically weak families, where people can purchase better quality food and other necessities at subsidized rates. This scheme is considered to be very effective to reduce the gap between rich and poor. The state has a very complex social structure and larger population data; therefore, it is quite unreasonable to using the manual method of verification because issues like black marketing and identification fraud always happened.

Challenges
 
  • Due to the complex population structure in the state. it’s a tedious and complex task to identify members of the weakened and impoverished sections of the society. The traditional method of manual data documentation and approximating results under a heavy workload, high labor cost, low efficiency, and excessive error rate.
  • It is impossible to get accurate data of poor families in the state. It’s difficult to save and inquire about relevant information of the masses and procurement of records.
  • With inaccurate reference data of supply and consumption. It is tough for the government to analyse and forecast the exact requirement of necessary supplies. Thus, it is a difficult task to supply sufficient food items for families in the right place and at the right time.
 
Solutions

Chainway helped them by assisting them with a sound identity verification solution by adopting barcode technology and applying it C4000 handheld computers, which helped them solve the issues like identity verification along with comprehensive information documentation. It also helped them improve the mobility and administered/check the government’s expenses under budget.
 

Effects
 
  • Barcode technology has resolved the issues such as fraud in identification and verification of people. This application has reduced the black marketing of subsidized items to a large extent.
  • Documentation of information has become swift and convenient. Concomitantly it also renders the whole scheme with the quality and integrity in terms portability and straightforwardness of a compact and portable computer.
  • A 3G network enables real-time transmission and storage of the documented data. The backend database facilitates future inquiry and management.
  • This method stipulates basis for the government to formulate policies to further narrow down the gap between the rich and the poor which eventually would turn out to be favourable for stability and social harmony.
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