{"id":1019154,"date":"2026-07-06T08:58:25","date_gmt":"2026-07-06T03:28:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1019154"},"modified":"2026-07-06T09:48:34","modified_gmt":"2026-07-06T04:18:34","slug":"andhra-pradesh-plans-digital-rupee-for-ration-distribution","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/07\/06\/andhra-pradesh-plans-digital-rupee-for-ration-distribution\/","title":{"rendered":"Andhra Pradesh plans digital rupee for ration distribution"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>VIJAYAWADA: The State government is planning to introduce the Central Bank Digital Currency (CBDC) system on a pilot basis in Vijayawada and Visakhapatnam later this year to bring greater transparency and accountability to the Public Distribution System (PDS). <\/p>\n<p>Civil Supplies Minister Nadendla Manohar and Civil Supplies Commissioner D Kannababu on Friday concluded a field visit to Gandhinagar and Ahmedabad in Gujarat, where the digital rupee is being tested for welfare distribution. The minister also held a review meeting with senior Gujarat Civil Supplies officials to study the system\u2019s technical framework, operational challenges and beneficiary response.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>VIJAYAWADA: The State government is planning to introduce the Central Bank Digital Currency (CBDC) system on a pilot basis in Vijayawada and Visakhapatnam later this year to bring greater transparency and accountability to the Public Distribution System (PDS). Civil Supplies Minister Nadendla Manohar and Civil Supplies Commissioner D Kannababu on Friday concluded a field visit to Gandhinagar and Ahmedabad in Gujarat, where the digital rupee is being tested for welfare distribution. The minister also held a review meeting with senior Gujarat Civil Supplies officials to study the system\u2019s technical framework, operational challenges and beneficiary response.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[75,4,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1019154","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-new-indian-express","category-newspapers","category-the-new-indian-express"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1019154","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1019154"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1019154\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1019176,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1019154\/revisions\/1019176"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1019154"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1019154"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1019154"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}