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Explained: Why the 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 |New Delhi |Updated: August 23, 2019 7:03:13 am

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

A ration card is issued to the head of the family. It is used by households to get essential food grains at subsidised prices from designated ration shops (also called fair price shops) under the Targeted Public Distribution System (TPDS).

one nation one ration card scheme, ONORC scheme, ration card, ram vilas paswan, ONORC scheme in andhra pradesh and telangana, ONORC scheme in maharashtra and gujarat, Express Explained, Indian Express — 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.