Beneficiaries told to take benefit of ‘One nation-One ration card’

Aurangabad: Stating that

Aurangabad

is covered under ‘One nation-One ration card’ scheme, the district food and civil supplies office has appealed to target beneficiaries to avail benefit of it. The initiative helps weaker sections to get their quota of grain from any electronic point of sale-enabled Fair Price Shops (FPS) of their choice anywhere in the country.

Aurangabad district supplies officer Datta Bharaskar said that around seven lakh target beneficiaries from Maharashtra have availed the benefit of ‘One nation-One ration card’ per month using inter-district portability.

“In total, over 94.5 lakh beneficiaries from Maharashtra have availed the benefit of ‘One nation-One ration card’ scheme through inter-district portability between April 2020 and March this year,” he said.

Citing official data, Bharaskar said that 6,320 beneficiaries from Maharashtra have availed grain during their stay in other parts of the country till April 15. “Also, 3,521 beneficiaries from other states of India have availed the benefit of ‘One nation-One ration card’ during their stay in Maharashtra by first half of the current month,” he said.

Launched on a pilot basis in 2019, ‘One nation-One ration card’ initiative considers eligible any citizen who is declared under Below Poverty Line (BPL) category as beneficiary. “One of the goals of the central scheme is to further improve rankings in the Global Hunger Index. We appeal to all beneficiaries to take benefit of the scheme by visiting the nearest PDS shop,” authorities concerned said.