As per the ruling of the Govt of Rajasthan, the ration cards are required to be renewed after every five years. However , this could not be done in Udaipur District for the last fifteen years due to lack of proper financial and human resources. This challenging task of preparing photo ration cards with low cost and within a limited time for the city of Udaipur was entrusted to the NIC unit by the District Collector, Udaipur. The Unit has very successfully completed the project within the stipulated time and with minimum human resources. First of all, the design of the card was prepared. The pattern , size and colour was decided and the parameters as regards the items of information to be collected were fixed. The application for the renewal along with old ration cards were collected by the Supply Officer and provided to the NIC Unit. Accordingly, a tactful Data Entry Software was prepared. In addition to the parameters already fixed, other pieces of information i.e. number of income tax payees, total units , number of gas owners, number of DBC owners etc. were collected and fed. The data entry on GIST CARD in Hindi and data feeding of more than one lakh applications were completed in a period of three months. A perfect coding system was used with a view to save time and labour. The codes were further converted into relations and a lot of additional information was derived. The ration cards were, then printed on printed stationary. Each card had the photograph of the head of the family and other required family details. It is for a period of 5 years i.e. 1998 to 2002. To help the Supply Officer, Udaipur in the work of distribution, a ward-wise index was prepared with the help of which the cards were easily distributed. Also ward-wise unit registers were generated for the office record of the District Supply Officer. This was a colossal task which was accomplished by the NIC Unit within a very short period for which the DIO, NIC Udaipur was awarded by the District Authorities.