CTLSnippets E6: Understanding Indian food security program: design, interventions and innovations

Описание: Welcome to CTL Snippets! In this episode we interact with Dr. Maya Ganesh from IIM Ahmedabad. Prof. Ganesh discusses her work on the Indian food security program. She talks about the design of the Indian public distribution system (PDS) and related inefficiencies. Prof. Ganesh answers some questions related to the introduction of Portability (agent choice), a demand side intervention, in the PDS. Her work studies the impact of this intervention using differences in differences approach on sub district level data from the states of Andhra Pradesh and Telangana. Further, the work looks at how absence of complementary supply side modifications to address demand variability can prevent the realisation of the intervention's full benefits. She advocates the use of micro level data and predictive analytics to improve demand management for food supply chains to reduce wastage and other inefficiencies. Similarly, availability of dynamic weather and traffic data can be used to make real time vehicle routing decisions. Use of IoT sensors that determine the freshness/shelf life of produce can also help retailers make dynamic pricing decisions.

Dr. Ganesh is an Assistant Professor of Operations Management in the area of Operations and Decision Sciences at the Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad (IIM A). Prior to joining the IIM Ahmedabad, she obtained her doctoral degree from the Indian School of Business, Hyderabad; PGDM (Manufacturing & Operations Management) from SPJIMR, Mumbai and undergraduate degree (Industrial Engineering and Management) from R V College of Engineering, Bangalore (then affiliated to VTU). Before entering academics, she worked with Cummins India Limited, Bosch Limited, IBM India and TVS Motors.