Archive · 1 Sep 2026
Gujarat Digitizes Grain Distribution Across Warehouses and Fair Price Shops
Gujarat is using computers and cameras to watch how food grains move through the state.
The system covers 250 warehouses and about 17,000 fair price shops.
Trucks carrying the grains have GPS devices so officials can see where they are.
Officials receive alerts if a truck leaves its planned route or loses its GPS connection.
Special digital boundaries help confirm when trucks reach warehouses and shops.
Electronic records verify that deliveries arrived at the correct places.
Around 7,000 cameras will help officials watch warehouses and prevent theft or adulteration.
Farmers can also register to sell grain at the government support price through a digital system.
They receive text messages about the progress of their procurement transactions.
Gujarat is introducing real-time digital monitoring across 250 warehouses and about 17,000 fair price shops.
GPS-equipped vehicles will be tracked as they transport supplies from Food Corporation of India depots to warehouses and shops.
The system uses route optimisation, geofencing, Electronic Proof of Delivery and alerts for route deviations or lost GPS connections.
About 7,000 CCTV cameras and a central Command-and-Control Centre will monitor warehouse activity and help prevent theft and adulteration.
Farmer procurement is also digitised, with Aadhaar, bank and land-document verification, biometric authentication and SMS updates.
- Who
- The Gujarat State Civil Supplies Corporation Limited, under the supervision of Food and Civil Supplies Minister Raman Solanki.
- What
- A digital logistics and surveillance system is being introduced to monitor grain distribution and farmer procurement.
- When
- The articles do not specify a launch date.
- Where
- Across Gujarat, including 250 warehouses, about 17,000 fair price shops and connected supply routes.
- Why
- To improve monitoring and verification of grain movement, strengthen warehouse security and digitise procurement transactions.
- Warehouses covered
- 250
- Fair price shops covered
- Around 17,000 Pandit Deendayal Grahak Bhandar shops
- CCTV cameras
- Around 7,000 cameras, including Bullet, Dome, PTZ and ANPR cameras
- Vehicle monitoring
- GPS tracking, machine-learning-based route optimisation and route-deviation alerts
- Delivery verification
- Electronic Proof of Delivery and geofencing at warehouses and fair price shops
- Central monitoring
- A Command-and-Control Centre at the GSCSCL headquarters
- Farmer procurement
- Procurement at Minimum Support Price with Aadhaar, bank-account and land-document verification