New Delhi: Delhi Tops among State and UTS apart from highly subsidized ration and free migrants from other states.
Although Delhi to implement the scheme ‘one country one ration (Onorc) only in July, so far 29,600 transactions have been carried out by the beneficiaries of another state using Onorc platform on August 19, followed by Haryana, Maharashtra and Gujarat.
In the case of a transaction intra-state and inter-district to uplift ration, Bihar prop list, registering 10.14 crore transactions so far, followed by Andhra Pradesh and Rajasthan.
According to official data, the condition of the main sources of cross-border transactions are Uttar Pradesh, (75 329), Bihar (45 675) and Maharashtra (11 615).
This means that migrants from the top and Bihar in other states are the biggest beneficiaries of the scheme Onorc.
Sources said the food secretary Sudhanshu Pandey made a detailed presentation on the status of the scheme before Prime Minister Narendra Modi in Pragati meeting this week in which he mentioned the significant progress in the last month.
Sources said a large enough number of poor migrants take advantage of the facilities in the national capital, which is fully funded by the center, justify why the food ministry wanted the Delhi government to come.
Officials say go with a rough calculation, every transaction involves the removal of pasture for four beneficiaries and go that at least one lakh people have benefited from the new system in Delhi in the last month.
In fact, the number of recipients of migrants between countries in Delhi has surpassed that of some other states such as Uttar Pradesh, Andhra Pradesh, Telangana and Gujarat, who joined Onorc platform more than a year ago.
Onorc schemes, portability ration cards across the country, was launched in August 2019 to ensure that migrant workers can take advantage of their subsidized food entitled under the Act of the National Food Safety (NFSA) no matter where they live or work.
These schemes are encouraged.
To implement it, EPOS devices installed in the ration shops, the number of beneficiaries Aadhaar linked with their ration cards and transactions occur only after biometric authentication using EPOS machines.
Secretary Food told TOI that nearly 40 crore transactions had been made on the platform Onorc and nearly 33 crore from this transaction occurred during a pandemic Covid-19.
Currently, about 2.2 crore portability transactions are recorded every month.
TOI has also been learned that the PM has directed the ministry of food and other departments to use this Onorc platform for the convergence of social welfare benefits such as scholarships transfer, old age pensions and the closure of Bharat Aayushman health to the poor because it has a strong and robust.
Unauthenticated databases related to the number of recipients manadhaar.
Pandey said that they had done a pilot with the Ministry of Rural Development in the six districts for convergence Onorc with the National Social Assistance Program, which provides financial assistance or pensions to the elderly, widows and the disabled, and the results are encouraging.