📋 Tender Overview
Union Minister of Consumer Affairs Food and Public Distribution Shri Ram Vilas Paswan has reviewed the progress of One Nation One Ration Card plan. While taking note of the requisite technical readiness of 4 more StatesUT of Jammu Kashmir Manipur Nagaland and Uttarakhand the Department of Food Public Distribution has enabled the integration of these 4 StatesUT with existing 20 StatesUTs for the National Portability. With this now a total of 24 StatesUTs are connected under One Nation One Ration Card from today w.e.f. 1st August 2020.These 24 StatesUTs are namely Andhra Pradesh Bihar Dadra Nagar Haveli and Daman Diu Goa Gujarat Haryana Himachal Pradesh Jammu Kashmir Jharkhand Karnataka Kerala Madhya Pradesh Maharashtra Manipur Mizoram Nagaland Odisha Punjab Rajasthan Sikkim Telangana Tripura Uttar Pradesh and Uttarakhand. With this about 65 crores 80 of total NFSA population is now potentially enabled for receiving food grains anywhere in these StatesUTs through national portability of ration cards. Remaining StatesUTs are targeted to be integrated in national portability by March 2021.The One Nation One Ration Card is an ambitious plan and endeavour of DoFPD to ensure the delivery of food security entitlements to all beneficiaries covered under the National Food Security Act 2013 NFSA irrespective of their physical location anywhere in the country by implementing nation-wide portability of ration cards under the ongoing central sector scheme on Integrated Management of Public Distribution System IM-PDS in association with all StatesUTs.Through this system the migratory NFSA beneficiaries who frequently change their place of dwelling in search of temporary employments etc. are now enabled with an option to lift their entitled quota of food grains from any Fair Price Shop FPS of their choice anywhere in the country by using their sameexisting ration card with biometricAadhaar based authentication on an electronic Point of Sale ePoS device installed at the FPSs.
