Under the NFSA, households covered under the Antyodaya Anna Yojana (AAY) are entitled to receive 35 kg of foodgrains per household per mont...

The Delhi government in April 2018 had temporarily suspended distribution of ration through the e-PoS system. The Centre wants the Delhi go...

The Economic Survey said that as the food subsidy bill is “becoming unmanageably large” and while it is difficult to reduce the economic co...

In the meeting, the secretary asked the states to deepen the progress about installation of ePoS devices, Aadhaar seeding of all beneficiar...

"So far, the facility has been enabled in 32 states/UTs covering nearly 69 crore beneficiaries, almost 86% of NFSA population of the countr...

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...

With this, about 65 crore beneficiaries, comprising 80 per cent of the total beneficiaries, covered under the National Food Security Act (N...

Paswan, who reviewed the implementation of the initiative, said, "There were reports in some newspapers that new ration cards will be neede...

The central government has asked states and union territories to ensure that names of people are not deleted from the ration card database ...

Under the initiative, eligible beneficiaries would be able to avail their entitled food grains under the National Food Security Act from an...

The food ministry is moving towards making ration cards portable to help migrant workers.

Ravi Kant, secretary, food & public distribution said that the purpose of one nation, one ration card scheme is to ensure nationwide portab...

Till 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 ...

"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...

The move is part of the second phase of its financial inclusion programme, where in the government wants to promote more transactions in th...

Paswan 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 aims to computerise the PDS sector to help check pilferages and plug leakages by installing electronic Point of Sale (ePoS) devi...