Govt launches web-based registration facility for ration cards

The Centre on Friday launched a common registration facility in 11 states and UTs to enable homeless people destitutes migrants and other eligible beneficiaries to apply for ration cardsThe National Food Security Act NFSA provides a maximum coverage for about 8135 crore persons At present around 7977 crore persons are given highly subsidised foodgrains under the Act So 158 crore more beneficiaries can be addedFood Secretary Sudhanshu Pandey said the Common Registration Facility My RationMy Right has been launched on Friday aimed at helping States and UTs in expeditiously identifying the eligible beneficiaries and issuing ration cards to such people so that they can avail their legal entitlement under the NFSAThe secretary also informed that in the last 78 years around 47 crore ration cards involving an estimated 1819 crore beneficiaries have been cancelled because of various reasons New cards are also issued by the states and UTs to eligible beneficiaries on a regular basisTo begin with the new webbased facility will be available in 11 states and Union Territories on a pilot basis By the end of this month all 36 States and UTs will be covered on the platformThe 11 states and UTs are Assam Goa Lakshadweep Maharashtra Meghalaya Manipur Mizoram Nagaland Tripura Punjab and UttarakhandThe purpose is that many homeless poor dont get ration card issued because for their livelihood they move from one place to another the secretary saidAt their current place of residence they dont get ration card issued because they are not residents of that place and they have come from elsewhere At the original place they dont get ration card because they are not living there So its a very tricky dilemma for them Pandey saidAccording to him domestic helps and workers at shopsestablishments can seek help from any individual who can actually fill their data and apply for ration cardOnce the data is fed into the system the same will be shared with the states and UTs concerned for verification purposeIt is basically further empowering people whose voice may not be heard otherwise to get access to what legally is due to them the secretary saidThe common registration facility is an initiative to collect data of persons desirous of registering for inclusion under the NFSA while residing anywhere in the countryThis facility will help statesUTs in identifying and including the eligible beneficiaries under the coverage of the NFSA as per the established inclusion and exclusion criteriaAll the 36 statesUTs have been onboarded under the One Nation One Ration Card ONORC planPandey said that once these homeless destitutes migrants and other eligible beneficiaries get their ration cards then they can take foodgrains entitlements from any ration shops in the cards under the ONORC programmeCurrently 14 states and UTs have covered all the eligible beneficiaries under the NFSA in their respective areasThis story has been sourced from a third party syndicated feed agencies Midday accepts no responsibility or liability for its dependability trustworthiness reliability and data of the text Midday managementmiddaycom reserves the sole right to alter delete or remove without notice the content in its absolute discretion for any reason whatsoever