Depot Darpan Portal:
The government recently said it will soon launch the Depot Darpan portal and mobile application, with an objective to ensure that the food storage depots meet the highest quality and performance standards.
- Depot Darpan Portal is an initiative of the Ministry of Consumer Affairs, Food & Public Distribution, Government of India.
- Conceived by the Department of Food and Public Distribution (DFPD), Depot Darpan will digitise the operations of 2,278 grain depots managed by the Food Corporation of India (FCI), Central Warehousing Corporation (CWC), and various state agencies.
- Objective is to ensure that the food storage depots meet the highest quality and performance standards.
- It enables depot managers to evaluate infrastructure, operational, and financial performance on a near real-time basis.
- Depot Managers upload geo-tagged inputs of the infrastructure available in their depot, generating automated ratings and action points for timely improvements.
- The system ensures 100% validation by the supervisory officers and random third-party audits.
- Each category is evaluated independently, and the warehouse receives a star rating based on the composite scoring from both parameters.
- Depot Darpan is uniquely integrated with smart warehousing technologies, creating a seamless digital monitoring ecosystem that includes: CCTV Surveillance and IoT sensors.
