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22/06/22 07:11 AM IST

One Nation One Ration Card

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  • Assam has become the 36th State/UT to implement One Nation One Ration Card (ONORC).
  • With this, the ONORC plan is successfully implemented in all the 36 states/UTs, making food security portable throughout the country.
ONOR
  • The objective of this beneficiary centric high-impact program is to empower all NFSA beneficiaries to become AtmaNirbhar for their food security anywhere in the country, through portability of their existing ration cards enabling them  to seamlessly lift their entitled subsidized foodgrains (in part or full) from any Fair Price Shop of their choice.
  • This also enables their family members to lift balance/required amount of foodgrains on the same ration card at their native/ any place from the FPS of their choice.
  • Since its inception in August 2019, about 71 Crore portable transactions (43.6 crore NFSA and 27.8 crore PM-GKAY transactions) have taken place under ONORC, delivering foodgrains equivalent to about Rs. 40,000 Crore in food subsidy through portability.
Mera ration App 
  • ‘MERA RATION’ mobile application which has been rolled out to take maximum advantage of the ONORC plan.
  • The mobile app is providing a host of useful real time information to the beneficiaries and is available in 13 languages. 
  • So far, the App has been downloaded more than 20 Lakh times from Google play store.
Source- PIB 

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