A STUDY ON EFFECTIVENESS OF E-POS IN PUBLIC DISTRIBUTION SYSTEM WITH SPECIAL REFERENCE TO PATHANAMTHITTA MUNICIPALITY

The Republic of India Food Security Scheme was established by the Government of India under the Ministry of Customers, Food and Public Distribution to distribute food and non-food items to the poor in India. India at sponsored rates. The government has fully integrated electronic ration outlets for sale (EPOS) under the national food security law to confirm the clear functioning of the PDS. This study was carried out in order to measure the level of satisfaction of the epos and to establish the problems that arose once the implementation of this new system. To continue the study, buyers from the municipality of Pathanamthitta were chosen as the reference city. The data collected was analyzed by ANOVA. The result confirmed that the interviewees were satisfied with the implementation of epos and our samples confirmed that epos is an effective system. however, the epos implementation redirects to some issues. Methods such as the gap government help desk and determining the correct operating time will reduce epos problems.