Annapurti

• A demonstration of the Automated Multi-Commodity Grain Dispensing Machine – ‘Annapurti’ developed by the UN World Food Programme (UN-WFP) and Automatic Grain Analyzers developed for automated quality checking of grains was conducted recently.

ABOUT ANNAPURTI

• GrainATM, Annapurti, is an automated multi-commodity dispensing solution that provides fast, clean, and precise access to commodities (rice, wheat, grains) to beneficiaries, post biometric authentication.
• It has been developed by World Food Programme (WFP) India.
• GrainATM ensures 24×7 access to full entitlements for people entitled to monthly subsidized grains through India’s Public Distribution System.
• Annapurti, which dispenses the type and quantity of the selected grain (wheat, rice or millet) commodity to each beneficiary after biometric authentication, does away with the possibility of spillage, waste and short-weighing.
• It leads to a reduction in waiting time of up to 70%.
• It can dispense one or two grain commodities, up to 50 kgs in five minutes, with an error rate of 0.01%.
• It is easily assembled and designed to consume only 0.6 Watt per hour.
• It can also be attached to solar panels, inverter batteries and elevators for automatic refilling.