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Pilot study to improve viability of Fair Price Shops in 4 cities underway: GovernmentA pilot study in India is underway to enhance 60 fair price shops in four cities through partnerships with SIDBI and B2B online wholesale a...- Delhi govt starts survey to check for inactive ration cards"We have initiated an exercise to start field inspection of those beneficiaries who have not been taking ration regularly for three months....
- West Bengal, Delhi also begin ration card portability serviceAccording to the ministry, Delhi which operationalised ONORC in July this year provides ration card portability for 33 states covering 69 c...
- States/UTs complete Aadhaar seeding of 93 pc ration cardsUnder the NFSA, households covered under the Antyodaya Anna Yojana (AAY) are entitled to receive 35 kg of foodgrains per household per mont...
- Centre again asks Delhi to resume e-PoS devices in PDS; seeks compliance report by June 30The Delhi government in April 2018 had temporarily suspended distribution of ration through the e-PoS system. The Centre wants the Delhi go...
- No rise in food grain prices for poor covered under NFSA: Piyush GoyalThe Economic Survey said that as the food subsidy bill is “becoming unmanageably large” and while it is difficult to reduce the economic co...
- Ration card portability scheme: States asked to send proposals for additional funds by February 15In the meeting, the secretary asked the states to deepen the progress about installation of ePoS devices, Aadhaar seeding of all beneficiar...
- As many as 32 States, UTs implementing 'One Nation One Ration Card'"So far, the facility has been enabled in 32 states/UTs covering nearly 69 crore beneficiaries, almost 86% of NFSA population of the countr...
- Adding four more states, 24 states in the country get linked to 'One Nation One Ration Card'With the addition of these four states, now 24 states across the country are connected with the One Nation One Ration Card Scheme. “About 8...
- J&K, Manipur, Nagaland, Uttarakhand join 'One Nation-One Ration Card' scheme: PaswanWith this, about 65 crore beneficiaries, comprising 80 per cent of the total beneficiaries, covered under the National Food Security Act (N...
- No new ration card needed for inter-state portability: Ram Vilas PaswanPaswan, who reviewed the implementation of the initiative, said, "There were reports in some newspapers that new ration cards will be neede...
- States must not delete ration card holders' names for lack of Aadhaar: PaswanThe central government has asked states and union territories to ensure that names of people are not deleted from the ration card database ...
- 'One Nation One Ration Card' to be effective nationwide from June: Ram Vilas PaswanUnder the initiative, eligible beneficiaries would be able to avail their entitled food grains under the National Food Security Act from an...
- One nation, one ration card: Inside food ministry's ambitious scheme to make ration cards portableThe food ministry is moving towards making ration cards portable to help migrant workers.
- One nation, one ration card: We are creating a central repository of ration cards, says food secretaryRavi Kant, secretary, food & public distribution said that the purpose of one nation, one ration card scheme is to ensure nationwide portab...
- Aadhaar ousts fake ration beneficiariesTill June end, little over 2.2 lakh of the total 5.27 lakh ration shops had e-PoS machines, which are used to check the identity of ration ...
- Linking Aadhaar to ration cards saved Rs 14,000 crore: Ram Vilas Paswan"Eighteen crore ration cards have been linked to Aadhaar cards in the country. This has resulted in savings of Rs 14,000 crore due to weedi...
- All ration shops to turn into business correspondentsThe move is part of the second phase of its financial inclusion programme, where in the government wants to promote more transactions in th...
- Ration shops to be fully computerised by '19: GovernmentPaswan said ePOS costs around Rs 20,000 and there are different provisions to install them as states can also do so by buying such devices.
- Government to computerise all ration shops by March 2019: Ram Vilas PaswanGovernment aims to computerise the PDS sector to help check pilferages and plug leakages by installing electronic Point of Sale (ePoS) devi...
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