Explained: Why One Nation, One Ration Card scheme could be a boon for poor migrants | Explained News, The Indian Express

Explained: Why One Nation, One Ration Card scheme could be a boon for poor migrants | Explained News, The Indian Express

Written by Mehr Gill |Edited by Explained Desk |Updated: August 22, 2019 11:13:41 am

Explained: Why One Nation, One Ration Card scheme could be a boon for poor migrants

Essentially, the ONORC scheme has been launched keeping in mind the internal migration of our country.

A ration card is issued to the head of the family, depending on the number of members in a family and the financial status of the applicant.

Last Friday, the government launched the pilot project for the inter-state portability of ration cards between Telangana and Andhra Pradesh, and between Maharashtra and Gujarat, as part of its ‘One Nation, One Ration Card’ scheme. “It is a historic day. We have started off inter-state portability of ration card pairing two states each,” the Minister for Consumer Affairs, Food and Public Distribution, Ram Vilas Paswan said in a statement.