Today is the age of digitalization, everything is getting digitalized, you are getting everything sitting at home. Similarly, there is a proposal from the Canteen Stores Department that you will also be able to get the canteen goods sitting at home.

Now in this article , we will know in detail how the Canteen Stores Department will provide us with goods sitting at home, how they will deliver and what is the proposal, we will know all these things in detail in this article. As you know that to buy canteen goods, you have to stand in line for hours and you have to go away from home, you have to invest money, effort, everything in it, to buy goods every month. Now you may not need it.

AFD items like Car, Bike , TV, AC, Fridge etc are already available to buy online mode. Now an effort is being made to introduce online sale of Grocery items.

Recently we have found a blog posting in this regard which mentioned that CSD Planning to Start Home Delivery of Items, a mail has been posted here, which has been received from ddgcanteenservicescsdindia.gov.in . Here, the proposal is that like Amazon, Flipkart, and other e-commerce services provide you with goods, in the same way, CSD Canteen will also provide you the Grocery and Liquor through a dedicated portal website and logistic channel.

Through this, you will also be provided with canteen goods as per your need, as per your choice, and as per your entitlement, you will also be able to take grocery items and liquor, you will get everything in it. What will happen with this, you don’t have to wait for hours, you don’t have to go to CSD and find each item and keep it in the cart, you don’t have to travel for hours and go to the canteen, you don’t have to do all this, your time will not be wasted. It takes a day, once you visit your CSD , a day is wasted, there is no need for this either, because the most expensive thing in the world today is time.

So, your time will be saved, money will also be saved, and effort will also be saved. Especially for the elderly people, who find it very difficult to move. This effort is a very noble effort. Because, their entitled quota of canteen grocery items or liquor items, they are not able to draw, because it is very difficult for them to move, it is very difficult to go to the canteen. You know that you have to go physically, only then you can take canteen goods, no representative can go and take your goods. So, as it is said here, this proposed system will be specially welcomed by the super seniors and those who have difficulty in movement or travel. Exactly, those who find it difficult to move, this will be very good for them..

What will be the convenience in this? this is not just for the service people, those who are running the canteen, those who are running the URC, the staff deployed there too, because behind every canteen, 4-5 staff have to be deployed, that deployment will be less, because side by side, it will also be convenient that you can buy directly from the canteen. Because many people will be like this, those who are not comfortable buying goods online, they will also buy directly, you can also buy on the traditional method, so some staff will have to be deployed. But you will not need so many staff, because the staff in the canteen, if you think of that staff, that manpower, we can put that manpower somewhere else.

The second thing is that the URCs, now see, like you are talking about any Cantonment, there are at least 10-15 URCs in a containment, so now there will be no need for so many URCs, 1-2 URCs will be enough, if the rest of the URCs are closed, then the location of that place, can be used for other work, such as ECHS polyclinic can be installed there.

There is a lot of shortage of ECHS polyclinics all over the country, so ECHS polyclinic or some other welfare activities can be established there. It is necessary that in the field unit formation, it will be very difficult to get home delivery there, it will be difficult to get this type of facility there, so the present system must be continued for them, the traditional system will be continued. In this entire system, there will be a big function, the modalities of it, if we see, that there will be a website, and the login of the website, your PIN will be given, your canteen card number, that will be your user ID, and a PIN will be provided to you, that PIN will be your password.

You will be able to enter that website, no one will be able to enter that website and only those who are entitled, those who have a CSD card, those who have a password, only they will be able to book the goods. What will happen for this, see, it will be very easy for the CSD depot, because the goods will come first in the CSD depot, it will be dispatched from there, there is no need for any mediator. The modalities will be, alike Amazon or Flipkart. The vendors, the suppliers, they directly will not deliver your goods, the Flipkart logistics system collects the goods from the vendors, and the goods reach you through the chain of their transportation system.

In CSD, it will first be stored in Depot and will be dispatched from there. Another proposal is , the supplier of the CSD may also deliver the goods directly to you, so what will happen of this type, there will be an early contact with the supplier of the depot, and as soon as you place your order to the depot, the depot will further place that order to the concerned supplier nearby you, the supplier will then deliver the goods to you against payment. For this, yes, it is necessary that you will have to pay some delivery charges, but the delivery charges will be very less compared to your time, effort and transportation charges. It is the benefit of the department, it is also the benefit of the canteen stores that they do not have to do much store handling, and it is also a good thing for the consumer, that they will save time, effort and waste of money.

Yes, whenever we talk about changes in anything, whenever we try to bring changes in anything, there will be some resistance, but I hope that whatever resistance comes here, we will be able to overcome it, and we will be able to adapt this system successfully, and its acceptance will also be very good. Now we have to see what happens on this, will it ever come into reality, or will it remain a proposal.

Last year, the CSD Dte has taken initiative to develop infrastructure to implement the project. Logistic is a big issue and it will yet to be fixed.

Since the home delivery is a long pending demand of Exservicemen, if we send this proposal to implement as soon as possible, then the more the proposal goes, the more its acceptance will be, its weightage will be. So I have a request from all the servicemen all over the country, you also do at least one mail from your side to the CSD Dte to implement the Home delivery of CSD grocery items. The mail id is ddgcs@csdindia.gov.in . You make a proposal according to you and send it, so that its weightage will be there, its acceptance will be there, and the dream proposal that has come, one day the government will definitely accept it.