'One nation, one ration card': Centre makes

standard format, asks states to follow it for

issuing fresh cards
19 Dec 2019
 Currently, the central government's ambitious initiative is being implemented on a
pilot basis in a cluster of six states
 'One nation, one ration card': the govt wants to implement this facility across the
country from 1 June 2020

The Centre has designed a standard format for ration cards as it moves ahead with
'one nation, one ration card' initiative and has asked state governments to follow
the pattern while issuing fresh ration cards.
Currently, the central government's ambitious initiative is being implemented on a
pilot basis in a cluster of six states. It wants to implement this facility across the
country from June 1, 2020.
Under the initiative, eligible beneficiaries would be able to avail their entitled
food grains under the National Food Security Act (NFSA) from any Fair Price
Shop in the country using the same ration card.
"In order to achieve the aim of national portability, it is necessary that ration cards
issued by different states and union territories conform to a standard format.
Accordingly, a format for standardised ration card has been prepared for issue of
ration card under the NFSA," a senior Food Ministry official told PTI.

A standard format for ration card has been prepared after taking into account the
format used by different states and after consultation with other stakeholders.
The state governments have been advised to use this new format whenever the
states decides to issue new ration cards. The standardised ration card includes
the requisite minimum details of the ration card holder and states can add
more details as per their requirement.
For national portability, the state governments have been asked to issue the
ration card in bi-lingual format, wherein besides the local langauge, the other
language could be Hindi or English.
The states have also been told to have a 10-digit standard ration card number,
wherein first two digits will be state code and the next two digits will be
running ration card numbers.
Besides this, a set of another two digits will be appended with ration card
number to create unique member IDs for each member of the household in a
ration card, the official added.

'One nation, one ration card' scheme: 5 more states join the initiative
The food ministry is aiming to implement 'one nation, one ration card' facility across the
country from June 1.
'One nation, one ration card' scheme: 5 more
states join the initiative
01 May 2020, 05:02 PM

Bihar, Punjab, UP, Himachal and Daman and Diu have been integrated with the 'one nation,
one ration card' scheme: Ram Vilas Paswan
 Under the 'one nation, one ration card' scheme a beneficiary will be able to avail
benefits across the country using the same ration card

Five more states, including Bihar and Uttar Pradesh, have been integrated with the
'one nation, one ration card' scheme Food Minister Ram Vilas Paswan said today.
"Today, 5 more states - Bihar, UP, Punjab, Himachal Pradesh and Daman and Diu
-- have been integrated with One Nation-One Ration Card System,"

Today 5 more states - Bihar, UP, Punjab, Himachal Pradesh and Daman & Diu have
been integrated with One Nation One Ration Card System. On 1st January 2020, 12
States were integrated amongst eachother and now 17 States are on Integrated
Management of PDS

Under the 'one nation, one ration card' initiative, eligible beneficiaries would

be able to avail their entitled food grains under the National Food Security
Act (NFSA) from any fair-price shop in the country. The scheme was
announced in June last year.
On January 1 this year, 12 states were integrated among each other and now 17
states are on integrated management of the public distribution system (PDS), also
called ration shops/fair price shops.
"About 60 crore beneficiaries from 17 states and UTs can benefit from the ration
card portability and they can purchase the subsidised foodgrains using the existing
ration cards.
Standard format of 'one nation, one ration card'
 A standard format for ration card has been prepared after taking into
account the format used by different states.

 For national portability, the state governments have been asked to issue
the ration card in bi-lingual format, wherein besides the local langauge, the
other language could be Hindi or English.

 The states have also been told to have a 10-digit standard ration card
number, wherein first two digits will be state code and the next two digits
will be running ration card numbers.

 Besides this, a set of another two digits will be appended with ration card
number to create unique member IDs for each member of the household in a
ration card.

 Andhra Pradesh, Telangana, Gujarat, Maharashtra, Haryana, Rajasthan,

Karnataka, Kerala, Madhya Pradesh, Goa, Jharkhand and Tripura are 12
states where ration card portability has been implemented.

RATION CARD (INDIA)

o Under the National Food Security Act, all state governments in India have to
identify households that are eligible for purchasing subsidized food grain
from the Public Distribution System and provide them with ration cards.
o There are two types of ration cards under NFSA
TWO TYPES OF RATION CARDS
o Priority ration card – priority ration cards are issued to households that meet
the eligibility criteria set by their state government. Each priority household
is entitled to 5 kilograms of food grain per member. Antyodaya (AAY)
 ration cards are issued to “poorest of poor” households. Each AAY
household is entitled to 35 kilograms of food grain.
 

POINT TO NOTE
o To ensure that one member of a family after shifting to another place does
not buy the entire family quota in one go, a maximum limit of buying will
be fixed
o In such cases, the beneficiary will be allowed to buy maximum 50 per cent
of the family quota. This will ensure other members are not deprived of their
entitlement

 Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman said the 'One Nation One

Ration Card' system will enable migrant workers and their family
members to access PDS benefits from any Fair Price Shop in the
country.

Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman on Thursday announced the national rollout of a ‘One

Nation, One Ration Card’ system in all states and Union Territories by March 2021. As of
now, about 20 states have come on board to implement the inter-state ration card portability.
According to the Finance Minister, this system will enable migrant workers and their family
members to access PDS benefits from any Fair Price Shop in the country.

What is the one ‘One Nation, One Ration Card’ system?

Under the National Food Security Act, 2013, about 81 crore persons are entitled to buy
subsidized foodgrain — rice at Rs 3/kg, wheat at Rs 2/kg, and coarse grains at Re 1/kg
from their designated Fair Price Shops (FPS) of the Targeted Public Distribution
System (TPDS).

Currently, about 23 crore ration cards have been issued to nearly 80 crore beneficiaries of NFSA in
all states and UTs
In the present system, a ration cardholder can buy foodgrains only from an FPS that has been
assigned to her in the locality in which she lives. However, this will change once the ‘One
Nation, One Ration Card’ system becomes operational nationally. This is how it will work:
Suppose a beneficiary lives in the district of Basti in Uttar Pradesh and migrates to Mumbai
for work. Currently, she is no longer able to purchase subsidised food grains from a PDS
shop in her new locality in Mumbai. However, under the ‘One Nation, One Ration Card’
system, the beneficiary will be able to buy subsidised food grains from any FPS across the
country.
The new system, based on a technological solution, will identify a beneficiary through
biometric authentication on electronic Point of Sale (ePoS) devices installed at the FPSs, and
enable that person to purchase the quantity of food grains to which she is entitled under the
NFSA.

How will the system of ration card portability work?

Ration card portability is aimed at providing intra-state as well as inter-state portability of
ration cards.
While the Integrated Management of Public Distribution System (IM-PDS) portal
(http://www.impds.nic.in/) provides the technological platform for the inter-state portability
of ration cards, enabling a migrant worker to buy foodgrains from any FPS across the
country, the other portal (annavitran.nic.in) hosts the data of distribution of foodgrains
through E-PoS devices within a state.
The Annavitran portal enables a migrant worker or his family to avail the benefits of PDS
outside their district but within their state. While a person can buy her share of foodgrains as
per her entitlement under the NFSA, wherever she is based, the rest of her family members
can purchase subsidised foodgrains from their ration dealer back home.

Since when has the One Nation, One Ration Card System been in the works?
Work on this ambitious project started about two years back when the government launched a
scheme called Integrated Management of Public Distribution System (IM-PDS) in April
2018 to reform the public distribution system in the country. The PDS system was marred
with inefficiency leading to leakages in the system. To plug the leakages and make the
system better, the government started the reform process.
For, this purpose it used a technological solution involving the use of Aadhaar to identify
beneficiaries. Under the scheme, the seeding of ration cards with Aadhaar is being done.
Simultaneously, PoS machines are being installed at all FPSs across the country. Once
100 per cent of Aadhaar seeding and 100 per cent installation of PoS devices is achieved,
the national portability of ration cards will become a reality.
It will enable migrant workers to buy food grains from any FPS by using their existing/same
ration card

How many states have come on board to roll out inter-state portability of ration cards?
It was initially proposed to nationally rollout the ‘One Nation, One Ration Card’ scheme by
June 1, 2020.
So far, 17 states and UTs — Andhra Pradesh, Goa, Gujarat, Haryana, Jharkhand, Kerala,
Karnataka, Madhya Pradesh, Maharashtra, Rajasthan, Telangana, Tripura, Uttar Pradesh,
Bihar, Punjab, Himachal Pradesh, and Dadra & Nagar Haveli and Daman & Diu — have
come on board to roll out the inter-state portability of ration cards under the NFSA.
Three more states — Odisha, Mizoram, and Nagaland — are expected to come on board by
June 1, taking the number of States and UTs to 20 under the One Nation, Once Ration Card
System.
How has been the experience of Ration Card Portability so far?
The facility of inter-state ration card portability is available in 20 states as of now but the
number of transactions done through using this facility has been low so far.
According to data available on the IMPDS portal, only 275 transactions have been done until
May 14. However, the number of transactions in intra-state ration card portability is quite
high.

The data available on the Annavitaran portal shows that about one crore transactions took
place using the facility last month. It means that usages of intra-state ration card portability
are way higher than the inter-state portability.

One nation, one ration card' scheme: Addressing the nation on the ₹20 lakh
crore Covid-19 relief package announced by Prime Minister Narendra Modi,
Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman yesterday said national portability will be
achieved in the 'one nation, one ration card' scheme by March 2021 across the
country. "This will be implemented by August for 67 crore beneficiaries in 23
states. 67 crore is 83% of the entire PDS system," she added.
Here is all you need to know about the 'one nation, one ration card' system:
1) Under the initiative, eligible beneficiaries would be able to avail their entitled
foodgrains under the National Food Security Act (NFSA) from any Fair Price Shop
in the country using the same ration card.
2) The government wanted to implement 'one nation, one ration card' scheme
across the country effective 1st June 2020.
3) A standard format for ration card has been prepared after taking into account the
format used by different states and after consultation with other stakeholders.
4) For national portability, the state governments have been asked to issue the
ration card in bi-lingual format, wherein besides the local langauge, the other
language could be Hindi or English.
5) As of now, 17 states are on integrated management of the public distribution
system (PDS).
6) Andhra Pradesh, Telangana, Gujarat, Maharashtra, Haryana, Rajasthan,
Karnataka, Kerala, Madhya Pradesh, Goa, Jharkhand and Tripura. Bihar, UP,
Punjab, Himachal Pradesh and Daman and Diu have been integrated with the 'one
nation, one ration card' system.
7) The eligible beneficiaries will be able to buy subsidised foodgrains, rice at ₹3
per kg, wheat at ₹2 per kg, and coarse grains at Re 1 per kg, from anywhere in the
country.
8) In the present system, a ration cardholder can buy foodgrains only from an FPS
that has been assigned to her in the locality in which she lives
9) According to data available on the IMPDS portal, the number of transactions
done through inter-state ration card portability is only 274 as on May 15
10) The Integrated Management of Public Distribution System (IM-PDS) portal
provides the technological platform for the inter-state portability of ration cards.

As part of the second tranche of announcements of the Rs 20 lakh crore

Atma Nirbhar Bharat scheme, Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman on
Thursday announced that the ‘One Nation, One Ration card’ scheme will
be implemented across the country. Aimed at making ration accessible to
migrant workers, the FM said that 67 crore beneficiaries across 23 states
will be covered by the scheme by August 2020.

So, what is the ‘One Nation, One Ration Card’ scheme?

The scheme is intended to make existing ration cards portable across the
country so that migrants working in a different state can receive food grains
from any fair-price shop (FPS) across the country, without having to get a
new card.

The Finance Minister said in the press conference that by March 2021,
there will be 100% coverage of the national portability of ration cards.

The scheme was originally announced in June last year, and the
government said at the time that eligible beneficiaries would be able to
avail their entitled food grains under the National Food Security Act (NFSA)
from any fair-price shop in the country.

Until now, a person could only receive food grains from the state that they
were issued the ration card in. Moving to a different state meant applying
for a new ration card to be eligible to receive food grains.

This scheme is aimed at benefiting migrant workers who often move states
in search of employment and livelihood opportunities.

It also assumed significance at a time when thousands of migrant workers

have begun returning to their home states due to lack of income, food and
means of livelihood in the state where they are working – with many of
them walking home because of inadequate planning and delayed transport
from the government.

The government said at the time that it wants to implement the scheme
across the country effective June 1, 2020.

So far, 17 states have been integrated with the scheme. On January 1,

2020, Andhra Pradesh, Goa, Gujarat, Haryana, Jharkhand, Karnataka,
Kerala, Madhya Pradesh, Maharashtra, Rajasthan, Telangana and Tripura
were integrated into the scheme, followed by Bihar, UP, Punjab, Himachal
Pradesh and Daman and Diu in May.

Last year, the Centre designed a standard format for all ration cards and
asked state governments to follow that format while issuing fresh ration
cards. However, the government clarified in February 2020 that old ration
cards will continue to remain valid throughout the nation.
For new cards issued in the standardised format, the Centre has asked
states to issue it in a bi-lingual format, which would include the card-
holder’s regional language and Hindi or English as the other language.

As per reports, the Centre also asked states to keep one standard 10-digit
ration card number, where the first two digits represent the state code,
followed by the running ration card number. The idea is to create a unique
member ID for each family.  

Elaborating on the technology-driven system behind the portability of the

cards, Finance Secretary Ajay Bhushan Pandey said that in every ration
card, all family members are seeded with their Aadhaar numbers. “That
gives them the advantage. Say a family member is in a different city,
through his Aadhaar card, he can withdraw the ration quota that the
remaining family members have not withdrawn yet,” he said.

Portability of benefits of PDS was first suggested by a task force headed by

Nandan Nilekani in 2011, which drew out a strategy for a ‘next generation
national Public Distribution System.’ In the report on the strategy, the
committee had suggested a PDS Network and said that the PDSN could
enable Aadhaar-based solutions for ration card registration, identification,
authentication, and payments. This report also spoke of full portability of
benefits, allowing beneficiaries to visit any FPS.

आइये जानते है की आखिर

क्या है ये (One Nation-One
Ration Card) योजना 
 अब दे श के राशनकार्ड उपभोक्ताओं को सहलिू यत दे ने और भ्रष्टाचार को ख़त्म करने के लिए (One
Nation-One Ration Card) योजना” शु रु करने का केंद्र सरकार ने फैसला लिया है
 फ़िलहाल अभी के सभी राशन कार्ड में आधार लिं क हो चूका है  
 अभी के राशन कार्ड और आने वाले राशन कार्ड (One Nation-One Ration Card) में जादा फर्क दे खने
को नही मिलगा 
 एक दे श, एक राशन कार्ड (One Nation-One Ration Card) में सिर्फ अं तर ये रहे गा की आप भारत के
किसी भी कोणे में अपना राशन ले सकते हो | जै से की आप बिहार के हो ले किन बं गाल काम करने गए हो
तो आप वहा भी अपना (One Nation-One Ration Card) से राशन ले सकते हो
 या फिर एसा भी हो सकता है की राशन के बदले आपको राशन के हिसाब से पै सा दे दिया जाये गा |
Kya Hai One Nation One Ration Card Yojana
योजना के Important Point 
 केंद्रीय खाद्य मं तर् ी Ramvilas Paswan ( रामविलास पासवान ) ने इस नई योजना की जानकारी दे ते
हुए कहा की दे श के तक़रीबन 81 करोड़ राशनकार्ड धारको को इस योजना का लाभ मिले गा ।
 One Nation-One Ration Card योजना से भ्रष्टाचार को ख़तम करने का मदद मिले गी ।
 एक दुकान के मालिक ( डीलर ) पर निर्भरत करने की अवास्कता नही पड़े गी , अपने हक का राशन दे श
के किसी भी कोने में कही से भी प्राप्त कर सकेंगे । 
 इस योजना का सबसे ज्यादा लाभ ऐसे   मजदरू ों को मिले गा जो मजदरू ी की तलाश में एक राज्य से
किसी दुसरे राज्यों में जाते है |
 आप किसी भी दुसरे राज्य में जाकर बस जाते हो तो , कोई जरुरत नही है नया राशन कार्ड बनवाने का
One Nation-One Ration Card है ना 
 सभी राज्यों को Ration दुकानों में point of sale (PoS) मशीनों लगाया जाये गा 
 One Nation-One Ration Card ये योजना 2020 तक सभी राज्य में चालू हो जाएगा |