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Ahead of Gudi Padva, Maha gifts Rs 100 ration kits to 16.3 million families

Ahead of the auspicious Gudi Padva festival on March 22 and Dr. B.R. Ambedkar's 132nd birth anniversary on April 14, the Maha govt will gift Rs 100 food kits to around 1.63 crore ration cardholders

Can free PDS boost tepid pick of inter-state ONORC? Experts don't think so

One Nation One Ration Card ensures that National Food Security Act beneficiaries can lift their entitled foodgrain from any Fair Price Shop, anywhere in India using existing ration card

TN govt announces Rs 1,000 as Pongal gift for ration card holders

Tamil Nadu Chief Minister M K Stalin has directed providing Rs 1,000 to ration card holders in the state on the occasion of Pongal harvest festival next month, the state government said on Thursday. All 'Rice' ration card holders will be eligible for the largesse which will also apply to the families residing in Sri Lankan Rehabilitation Camps, an official release here said. One kg each rice and sugar will also be provided to the beneficiaries. As many as 2.19 crore ration card holders will benefit from the move that will entail an expenditure of Rs 2,356.67 crore, the release added. Stalin will launch the Pongal Gift scheme here on January 2. The festival will be celebrated on January 15.

Ration shops to double up as financial service providers in Chhattisgarh

Besides banking correspondent services through tie-ups with banks, the shops will be allowed to sell other commodities and general store items

Ration card holders in Maha to get grocery package at Rs 100 for Diwali

The Maharashtra cabinet on Tuesday decided to provide a package of groceries at Rs 100 to holders of the ration card in the state for the upcoming Diwali festival. The package will contain 1 kg of rawa (sooji), groundnuts, edible oil and yellow lentils. "There are 1.70 crore families or seven crore people who have ration cards and are eligible to buy foodgrains from state-run fair price shops," the statement said. The proposal was moved by the Department of Food and Civil Supply and Consumer Protection. As per the Reserve Bank of India's consumer price index, the country's retail inflation rate is 7 per cent. Against this backdrop, the state government's decision to offer essential items at subsidised rates will enable the economically-weaker sections to prepare snacks and sweets for Diwali using the package of groceries. Notably, many civic and local governing bodies, including the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation, in the state are due for elections in the coming months.

What is UP's new Parivar Kalyan Card and how will people be enrolled for it

UP Parivar Kalyan Card will provide a unique 12-digit ID number for each family, and the initial collection of data will be done through ration cards

Centre launches web-based registration facility for ration cards

The Centre on Friday launched a common registration facility in 11 states and UTs to enable homeless people, destitutes, migrants and other eligible beneficiaries to apply for ration cards. The National Food Security Act (NFSA) provides a maximum coverage for about 81.35 crore persons. At present, around 79.77 crore persons are given highly subsidised foodgrains under the Act. So, 1.58 crore more beneficiaries can be added. Food Secretary Sudhanshu Pandey said the 'Common Registration Facility' (My Ration-My Right) has been launched on Friday, aimed at helping States and UTs in expeditiously identifying the eligible beneficiaries and issuing ration cards to such people so that they can avail their legal entitlement under the NFSA. The secretary also informed that in the last 7-8 years, around 4.7 crore ration cards, involving an estimated 18-19 crore beneficiaries, have been cancelled because of various reasons. New cards are also issued by the states and UTs to eligible beneficiari

Why ration card necessary for aid under Rashtriya Arogya Nidhi, asks HC

The Delhi High Court questioned why having a ration card was necessary for a citizen to avail financial benefits under the Rashtriya Arogya Nidhi (RAN)

Govt to use ration card database for other welfare programmes: Food Secy

India's wheat exports reach nearly 3 million tonnes and it is considering some nations' requests for supplies: Sudhanshu Pandey

'One Nation, One Ration Card' programme implemented across India

The implementation of ONORC was initiated in August 2019

BJP govt forcing poor to surrender their ration cards: UP Congress

The Uttar Pradesh Congress accused the BJP of tricking the poor into voting for it during the assembly elections in name of free food grains given to them during the Covid pandemic

PM Modi hails Cabinet's decision to extend free supply of ration scheme

"Today's Cabinet decision will benefit 80 crore Indians and is in line with our commitment of ensuring greater public welfare," Modi said on Twitter

Pandemic relief: Centre extends 5 kg ration scheme under PMGKAY till March

The Centre will incur an additional expenditure of around Rs 53,344.52 crore because of the extension

Govt decides to extend 5-kg free foodgrains scheme till March next year

The Union Cabinet on Wednesday decided to extend till March the free foodgrains supply under the Pradhan Mantri Garib Kalyan Anna Yojana (PMGKAY) to provide relief to ration cardholders. The 5 kg foodgrain per person per month is being provided free of cost to more than 80 crore beneficiaries under the PMGKAY. The scheme was initially launched for three months from April 2020 to provide relief to poor people amid the COVID-19 pandemic, leading to the nationwide lockdown. It has been extended several times since then. The 5 kg foodgrain is being provided over and above the normal quota under the National Food Security Act (NFSA). The PMGKAY has been extended by four months till March 2022, informed I&B Minister Anurag Singh Thakur after the Cabinet meeting. This will cost an additional Rs 53,344 crore to the exchequer, he said, adding that the total cost of PMGKAY would reach about Rs 2.6 lakh crore, including this extension. The PMGKAY was provided for three months (April-June ..

Delhi urges Goyal to withdraw order disallowing doorstep ration delivery

Delhi's Food and Civil Supplies Minister Imran Hussain Monday requested Piyush Goyal to withdraw an order preventing the implementation of the city government's doorstep ration delivery scheme

States lift 83% of foodgrains out of 60 mn tonne allocated under PMGKAY

The Centre has allocated nearly 60 million tonne of foodgrains for free distribution under Pradhan Mantri Garib Kalyan Anna Yojana (PMGKAY) to provide relief to ration card holders amid the pandemic

12.9 mn ration cards cancelled, deleted across India; UP, Maha top list

As many as 1.29 crore ration cards were deleted or cancelled by various states and union territories during the last three years with Uttar Pradesh and Maharashtra topping the list

Ration cards to be issued to eligible beneficiaries from July 26 in T'gana

Telangana Chief Minister K Chandrashekar Rao has instructed the Civil Supplies department in the state to provide ration cards to the eligible beneficiaries from July 26

One-Nation-One-Ration-Card suffers from exclusion issues, say experts

Scheme does not embrace 100 mn people who are otherwise entitled to NFSA ration cards, but don't possess them simply because the list has not been updated since 2011

Implement ration scheme by July 31: Supreme Court to states, UTs

It also directed the states, UTs to run community kitchens for migrant workers till the COVID pandemic continues.