India’s first rice ATM was inaugurated by the Odisha Food Supplies and Consumer Welfare Minister Krushna Chandra Patra at a warehouse in the Mancheswar area of Bhubaneswar on Thursday. The automated dispensing machine has been set up for the distribution of PDS rice. Ration card holders have to feed their ration card number on the display monitor with a touch screen and the machine will dispense rice after biometric authentication.India’s first rice ATM was inaugurated by the Odisha Food Supplies and Consumer Welfare Minister Krushna Chandra Patra at a warehouse in the Mancheswar area of Bhubaneswar on Thursday. The automated dispensing machine has been set up for the distribution of PDS rice. Ration card holders have to feed their ration card number on the display monitor with a touch screen and the machine will dispense rice after biometric authentication.