HCL bags order for smart cards in Chd

HCL Infosystems, India’s premier hardware services and information and communication technology (ICT) system integration company, today announced that it had bagged an order to implement India’s first smart card-based solution for public distribution system in the Union Territory of Chandigarh. The project will see distribution of smart card-based ration cards to families living below poverty line in the region.

These smart cards will capture all biometric, tax, demographic and personal information details, enabling authorities to ensure proper distribution of food rationing and other benefits.

This first of its kind deployment resonates well with the government’s national initiative ‘Aadhar’ (UID project) and reinforces the company’s expertise in the space. This selection comes after extensive scrutiny, solution, demonstration and evaluation by various committees and also a nodal agency Haryana Electronics Development Corporation (Hartron) which found HCL Infosystems with its expertise best suited to deploy this unique solution.

Commenting on the project, J V Ramamurthy, President and COO, HCL Infosystems Ltd, said, “It gives me immense pleasure to see HCL Infosystems leading the way with India’s first deployment for a technology-led PDS solution. Technology today is changing the way local authorities across the globe reach out to their citizens. As public distribution system is vital for sustained living of the people living below the poverty line, this project is a step in the right direction to make the public distribution system more robust and effective by deploying path-breaking technology.

The project will ensure that the benefits of the public distribution system reach the grassroots level and we at HCL Infosystems are proud to be a part of such a nation building project.”

With its focus on new product development, HCL Infosystems has successfully worked upon IP creation for over 30 products.