Ration Card Big Update: Ration cards are issued by the government to provide ration to poor people at cheap rates or for free. With the help of ration card, poor people get more benefits.
Ration card is issued by all the state government to the family members present in their state.
At the same time, a new system has been started by the Central Government regarding the ration card. Millions of people are going to get the benefit of this.
Actually, the Central Government has started a common registration facility for issuing ration cards in 11 states and union territories.
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The purpose of this registration is to enable homeless people, destitute, migrants and other eligible beneficiaries to apply for ration card.
The National Food Security Act provides maximum coverage for about 81.35 crore persons. At present, about 79.77 crore people are given food grains under this Act on highly subsidized basis. Accordingly, 1.58 crore more beneficiaries can be added.
Must know due to which reasons the ration card was cancelled
Food Secretary Sudhanshu Pandey said, ‘Common Registration Facility’ is aimed at speedy identification of eligible beneficiaries in states and union territories.
Also, to help such people in issuing ration cards, so that they can take advantage of the eligibility under NFSA. He said that in the last seven to eight years, about 4.7 crore ration cards belonging to an estimated 18 to 19 crore beneficiaries have been canceled due to various reasons.
New facility will be available in these only 11 states
New cards are also issued on a regular basis to the eligible beneficiaries through the States and Union Territories. The Secretary said that initially the new web-based facility will be available on a pilot basis in 11 States and Union Territories.
