One Nation One Ration Card

Uttar Pradesh is enhancing food security through technology-driven distribution and nutritional support, benefiting millions. The state ensures prompt farmer payments via direct procurement of paddy, wheat, and coarse grains. Modernized Fair Price Shops and the 'one nation one ration card' scheme further strengthen access and transparency.

The one nation one ration card will provide an option to all eligible ration card holders/beneficiaries covered under the National Food Security Act to access their entitlements from anywhere in the country, the food ministry said in a statement.

The decision to fast track the roll-out of ‘one nation one ration card’ was taken at a meeting of state food secretaries chaired by Union food minister Ram Vilas Paswan. He said that migrant labourers will be the biggest beneficiary of the initiative. To achieve this target, the food ministry will create a central depository of all ration cards, deleting the duplicates.

Not many migrant workers have availed the one-nation-one-ration card portability facility in the state before and during the lockdown. Officials attribute the lack of response to eating habits, lack of awareness and other factors. Also, many migrant workers leave their ration cards with their families back in their home states.

Tamil Nadu Congress Committee president K S Alagiri on Thursday questioned the Centre’s move to implement the ‘one nation one ration card’ scheme and said it is being done to bring all powers under one control against the spirit of federalism.

A day after the Delhi cabinet gave its nod to implement the one nation one ration card (ONORC) scheme, the distribution of free rations at around 2,000 fair price shops started on Tuesday. The move will give much-needed relief to migrant workers, who are otherwise deprived of free or subsidised food items as they hold ration cards of their native states.

Food minister Ram Vilas Paswan has said the government is moving towards 'one nation one ration card', which will enable beneficiaries to get their quota of grains from any ration shop across the country. Paswan asserted that the "biggest beneficiary of this will be those migrant labourers who move to other states to seek better job opportunities and will ensure their food security".

One-Nation-One-Ration-Card is a tool for wider empowerment, says commerce, food & public distribution minister

Union finance minister Nirmala Sitharaman on Thursday announced that public distribution system (PDS) ration cards will be made portable to allow migrant workers to use these cards across the states. This means that the migrant workers can use their ration cards at any free price shop across the country to obtain food.

Tamil Nadu CM Edappadi K Palaniswami on Thursday launched a one nation one ration card scheme in the state. The scheme allows the ration card holders to get their monthly entitlement of foodgrains from any PDS outlet of their choice in the state and across the country. Palaniswami distributed the subsidized foodgrains to three families as a token gesture.

Prime Minister Narendra Modis flagship 'one nation one ration card' scheme has been implemented across 20 states so far with the Central government targeting the entire country by March 31 next year.

In a significant move the Delhi cabinet has decided to implement one nation one ration card (ONORC) scheme which will enable a large number of poor who migrate from their native places to Delhi in search of livelihood options to obtain ration by using ration cards issued to them in their native states.