APMC alternative: Is Odisha model of decentralised procurement ideal?

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From making Primary Health Centres more efficient to building a robust supply chain for medicines and medical equipment to making hospital administration easy. CSM’s HealthEase has been at the forefront of making it easy for both governments by helping them manage their health centres better to large corporate hospitals by ensuring the sys...

Business Standard Featured

13 December 2020

Paddy Procurement Automation System (PPAS) developed by CSM Tech for the Odisha government is a model that shows how decentralized procurement can be done in a transparent manner. Business Standard reports that the keystone of this process is a highly automated system of farmers' registration which is matched with the land records and then multiplied with the average yield of the area to figure out the amount of surplus paddy that a farmer can sell. PPAS is a system of decentralized procurement with centralised payment method.