Both are some of the beneficiaries of the central govt’s ‘One Nation, One Ration Card’ scheme. Through this scheme eligible other people can get meals grains from any place within the nation.
This scheme has now been applied around the nation. In this, Assam is the most recent state to enroll in in June 2022. ONORC was once introduced on August 1, 2019 as a pilot venture in 4 states. It has finished 3 years.
Premlata, who works at a good value store at Bhagat Singh Bazar within the nationwide capital’s Gol Market, stated she is going to not must shuttle to her village to get sponsored meals grains, nor will she be disadvantaged of her entitlement.
He stated, “We have been living in Delhi for the last two years. At present we are living in Paharganj area. We are getting 40 kg of food grains every month from the ration shop.
She works as a domestic help and her husband works in a shop.
Manzoor Alam, a resident of Darbhanga in Bihar, is also getting food grains from the ration shop for nine family members.
Bhallu Kewat and Shankar from Madhya Pradesh said they are also availing their foodgrain quota under the National Food Security Act (NFSA) through ration shops here.
Indu Gupta, who runs a ration shop in Gol Market, said that under the ONORC scheme, more than 20 migrants had taken ration last month.
The technology based ONORC scheme has been implemented by the Center for ‘Portability’ of Ration Card at the national level.
This system will enable all NFSA beneficiaries, especially migrant beneficiaries, to receive full or part of their entitlement food grains from any Fair Price Shop (FPS) in the country through existing ration cards with biometric/Aadhaar authentication. allows.
This arrangement allows their family members, if any, to get the remaining food grains on the same ration card.
At present, an average of about three crore transactions per month are being registered under the scheme. Since its inception in August, 2019, around 77.88 crore transactions have taken place under the scheme.
Under the NFSA, the Center is providing five kilograms of food grains per person every month at an affordable rate of Rs 2-3 per kg to around 80 crore eligible beneficiaries.
In addition, the Center is providing an additional five kilograms of food grains ‘free’ per person every month to 80 crore people to provide relief to the poor.
