Accelerating the Indian Manufacturing Growth and study of select issues with the existing “Ease of doing business” framework. In collaboration with the Suzuki India Foundation, the study is undertaken at the Public Systems Lab (PSL), IIT Delhi and aimed at analyzing the operational issues faced by manufacturing companies established in Haryana in the last decade.
Building up on the ongoing research & development and responding to the global
needs around better health & environment and the context of the International
Year of Millets, the Public Systems Lab (PSL) at IIT Delhi has initiated the ‘PSL
Millets Programme’ with the objective of increasing demand and access,
improving supply chain, boosting awareness and supporting millet-based value
chains. Funds are being sought for the following:
Millet Subscription Model and pilot: Millet subscription will cater to the population segment that is interested in millets but needs better access to regularize consumption and concretize demand. Like other services in the digital economy, the core idea of this project is to develop a consumer portal for delivery of millet products and make the business sustainable through Operations Research based optimal pricing. Working stages of the project
includes:
Nudge Study: The importance of PDS in pushing wheat and rice to alter the consumption pattern across the country is widely acknowledged. This part will design and study the impact of nudges for promoting millets among PDS consumers. Key work elements include:
Further, in the short to medium run, we also envisage the PSL as a hub for conducting empirical research on the issues pertaining to public good and economic policy which are well aligned with global priorities as envisaged in the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), particularly SDG-2 (zero hunger, and better nutrition, since millets can grow in relatively infertile areas and at low scale for global as well as local communities), SDG-3 (good health & well-being, since millets have well established health benefits), SDG-11 (sustainable communities, since millets contribute to healthier soil), SDG-12 (responsible consumption & production, since millets use significantly lesser water than other grains), SDG-13 (climate action, since growing millets can fight climate issues) and SDG-17 (partnerships, since millets are traditional livelihood enhancers and the project approach incorporates partnerships between academia, entrepreneurs, farmers and consuming communities in rural as well as urban areas).
Food Grain Supply Chain Optimization across Indian states
PURPOSE
Foodgrain supply chains are one of the few determinants of food security of India’s poor and vulnerable sections Lapses in these supply chains, as the entire world is realizing due to current Geopolitical circumstances:
The central government has adopted several plans and schemes such as ‘end to end computerisation of TPDS operations’ to upgrade monitoring and avoid fraudulent beneficiaries. However, none of this directly address supply chain efficiencies. Accordingly, our project addresses the following challenges:
Overall, making the supply chain logistics more efficient & effective by reducing cost and enhancing access.
PROJECT
States incur high transportation costs for TPDS due to difficult terrain, limited resources, restricted windows for transportation and disintegrated storage spaces. To address this and ensure pre-prepositioning of adequate safety stocks in the areas where access is affected by seasonal and predictable hazards, the Public Systems Lab supports the states through supply chain optimization. An Operations Research (OR) based mathematical programming model helps minimize the total transportation cost while incorporating all practical conditions to make it implementable.
Outcome:
WAY AHEAD
The PSL currently is building supply chain optimization models in all states across the country based on their specific requirements. As already demonstrated, our strategically planned modeling interventions will:
Our team will have experts from academia (IITs) and a strong partnership with the leading multilateral organization in this area, the United Nations (UN) World Food Programme (WFP). Leveraging expertise from various stakeholders, as required, the project team will increase efficiency and effectiveness in PDS.
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Fig: Optimal plots shown for the districts of Udham Singh Nagar and Champawat. Uttarakhand
Introduction to the project:
For every city public transportation plays an important role in its growth. It important to have the reliable public transport service and cater the service demand of the city. A city can have widespread route network, and PT agency with large bus fleet size operates through its different depots. Due to this depot-based scheduling of the buses, final timetable of the buses can have a different problem like overlapping of trips, inconsistent headway, and underutilization of the buses.
In our project, we have identified this issue in the current timetable of Bangalore Metropolitan transport corporation (BMTC), which is one of the India’s largest public transport service providers. BMTC has 6565 buses operating on 2203 different routes across the city. The daily number of trips done are 47353.
Our objective for the project is:
Representation of overlapping trips
After analyzing the dataset provided by BMTC we found out that given schedule has total 4143 overlapping trips, and almost 50% of the buses are involved in the overlaps. We have represented the hourly band wise overlaps as below:
To address this issue a toolkit is developed with the following approach:
A desktop-based toolkit using the python code is developed, which follows the operation research techniques for the optimization and effective utilization of the bus fleet. GUI of the toolkit looks like follows:
As we can see in the above GUI, a toolkit needs only four inputs, 1. Current schedule of the buses in excel file format 2. Minimum safety headway allowed in minutes which is used for the rescheduling of overlapping trips 3. Maximum running hours of bus in day and 4. Maximum travel time to go from one bus stop to another across the city
Impacts and benefits:
Following are the direct impacts:
Welfare benefits:
IoT based SMART WAREHOUSE
PURPOSE
A substantial amount of post-harvest food grains wastage in India (about 10%) is due to:
It therefore becomes a challenge to adequately, preserve and handle foodgrains with minimum spoilage. Keeping these concerns in mind, the IoT based smart warehouse is based on state of the art technology
PROJECT
Internet of Things (IoT) based Smart Warehouse is highly effective mechanism of foodgrain storage management and will ensure rightful utilization through structured monitoring of various parameters in real time. The warehouse is equipped with state-of-the-art technology like temperature sensors, air quality sensor, passive infrared motion sensors for rodents, phosphine fumigation sensor, missing bag identification and many more. It aims to achieve a significant reduction of food wastage caused due to traditional storage practices while identifying the sources of waste to develop further solutions against foodgrain losses. The project also enables:
OUTCOME
GUI- Monitoring
The IoT based Smart Warehouse apart from the above-mentioned outcomes will also impact a number of stakeholders ranging from the National/state/district officers to the farmers:
The Public Systems Lab looks forward to repeat the installation of Smart Warehouses across all the states of India. Multiplying the deployment of smart warehouses will:
SDG2-Rajasthan Dashboard
Objective:
To visualize the state, district and sub-district indicators and data for SDG 2 monitoring to enable evidence-based policymaking to support the efforts of Government of Rajasthan in achieving food and nutrition security in the state. “This includes embed tables, maps and other visualisation tools (Bar charts, Pie charts, Radar charts, etc.) in dynamic form, for SDG-2 vulnerability assessment at the state, district and sub-district level, in the dashboard developed on a user-friendly platform. The main expected outcome of this is to have robust SDG-2 dashboard that enables evidence-based monitoring and identification of vulnerable hot-spots for strategic planning and targeted action for achieving ‘Zero Hunger’ in the state of Rajasthan.
Development of SDG2-Dashboard
Front end of our SDG-2 dashboard is designed in ReactJS framework, and the backend is developed in PHP Language.
ReactJS is a declarative, fast, and adaptable JavaScript toolkit for creating user interface components. Facebook created ReactJS in its newsfeed area in 2011, but it was released to the public in May 2013.
Why we used React JS for front end design?
PHP (short for Hypertext Pre-processor) is the most widely used open source and general purpose server side scripting language used mainly in web development to create dynamic websites and applications. It was developed in 1994 by Rasmus Lerdorf.
Why we used PHP for backend design?
Introduction of SDG-2 Dashboard
The main objective of the dashboard is to provide evidence-based monitoring and identification of vulnerable hot-spots for strategic planning and targeted action for achieving ‘Zero Hunger’. The dashboard will visualize the state and district indicators and data for SDG 2 monitoring to enable evidence-based policymaking to support the efforts of government in achieving food and nutrition security. The dashboard has 4 page i.e. Home Page, State performance, District performance and Rajasthan SDG2-Index. The functionality of dashboard is discusses below.
Functionality of SDG-2 Dashboard
Home Page
The home page is divided into 2 section. In the top section we have name of all the targets associated with SDG-2 along with the picture that depicts the goal and motive of the target. In the bottom section, we have cards depicting all the targets. User can click on the target and will be re-directed to the state performance which will show the performance of first indicator associated with the clicked target.
Top Section of Home Page
Bottom Section of Home Page
State Performance
The state performance is divided into 3 section. Here user first need to select the version of the data ,then select the year in which the version is used, then select the target whose performance need to be monitor and then select the respective indicator with respect to the chosen target. In the first session user will see two info graphics. On left side, there is horizontal bar graph will depicts the best performing state, worst performing state, Rajasthan value and standard value of the indicator. On the right side, there is map of India which depicts the performance of all the states with respect to the indicator chosen by hovering on the states. In the middle portion, user can find the performance of all the years with respect to the chosen version. In the bottom portion, user can compare the performance of the 2 selected years with respect to chosen indicator.
Top Section of State Performance Page
Middle Section of State Performance Page
Bottom Section of State Performance Page
District Performance Page
The district performance is divided into 3 section. Here user first need to select the version, then select the year in which the version is used, then select the target whose performance need to be monitor and then select the respective indicator with respect to the chosen target. In the first session user will see two info graphics. On left side, there is horizontal bar graph will depicts the best performing district, worst performing state, and Rajasthan value of the indicator. On the right side, there is map of Rajasthan which depicts the performance of all the districts with respect to the indicator chosen by hovering on the districts. In the middle portion, user can find the performance of all the district with respect to the chosen indicator and compare it with Rajasthan performance. In the bottom portion, user can compare the performance of the 2 selected years with respect to chosen indicator.
Top Section of District Home Page
Middle Section of District Performance Page
Middle Section of District Performance Page
Bottom Section of District Performance Page
Rajasthan SDG2-Index
The SDG-2 Rajasthan Index page is divided into 3 section. Here user need to select the version. Once the version is selected the info graphics are represented. The first session there will be map of Rajasthan district on the left side which depicts the overall performance of the district. On the right side, there will be table with represent the indicative value of the indicators, rank of the district and category of the performance of the district. In the middle portion, there will be overall performance of the Rajasthan with respect to all the version.
Top Section of Rajasthan SDG-2 Index
Middle Section of Rajasthan SDG-2 Index
Bottom Section of Rajasthan SDG-2 Index
