New Delhi: West Bengal and Delhi also operated the portability of ration cards while the remaining two states of Assam and Chhattisgarh are expected to join the coming months, the Union Food Ministry said on Saturday.
With this, now a total of 34 states and union areas can be connected under the program ‘one country, one ration card (onorc), which includes 75 crore receivers.
Delhi operated onorc in July while West Bengal applied it in August.
“The two remaining countries – Assam and Chhattisgarh – are targeted for integration under Onorc in the next few months,” the Ministry said in a statement.
At present, the monthly average of around 2.2 crore portability transactions is being recorded consistently in the state and the United States, he said.
According to the ministry, 40 crore portability transactions have been conducted since August 2019.
The maximum transaction has been reported from Bihar (10.14 Crore), followed by Andhra Pradesh (6.92 Crore), Rajasthan (4.56 Crore), Telangana, Uttar Pradesh , Kerala, Karnataka, Maharashtra, Haryana and Madhya Pradesh in that period.
Onorc aims to ensure a smooth delivery of the ownership of subsidized food security for all beneficiaries included in the National Food Security Law, 2013 (NFSA), regardless of their physical location anywhere in the country.
Even though OnorC must be equally beneficial all 80 NFSA Crore recipients, but especially aiming to enable beneficiaries of migration (most workers, daily bets, poor cities, temporary workers in organized and unorganized sectors, which often migrate throughout the country Looking for better opportunities or for other reasons, to access the Public Distribution System (PDS) and if desire, can lift the food of food sold from the EPOS that allows FPS in the country through portability.
“Thus, the installation of EPOS devices in FPSS and Aadhaar Nursery Beneficiaries with digital ration card data are two main supporters of the initiative driven by this technology, “he said.
Onorc’s goal is to empower all NFSA beneficiaries to be independent for their food security anywhere in the country, through the portability of the ration the same one to lift the seeds n Their subsidized food (partially or full) of every e-post.
(Electronic Point of Sale device) Activated fair prices in this country with biometric / aadhaar authentication when lifting fredgrain through portability.
Furthermore, their family members at home can also lift their balance / food needs on the same ration card.
Because the potential for Onorc to empower migrants, this plan is now also part of “reforming the system driven by the Prime Minister’s technology under Atmanirbhar Bharat Abhiyan”.
According to the Ministry, the ‘Mera Ration’ mobile application – which is a ration card holder, especially migrant recipients, can be used to identify the nearest reasonable price shop, check the details of their rights and recent transactions – have recorded more than 15 lakh downloads on Google Play Shop so far.
Cellular applications available in 12 Viz languages.
English, Hindi, Oriya, Punjabi, Tamil, Telugu, Malayalam, Kannada, Urdu, Gujarati, Marathi and Bangla.