According to the ministry, Delhi which operationalised ONORC in July this year provides ration card portability for 33 states covering 69 c...

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...

Free grain under the government’s Atmanirbhar scheme for migrant labourers has reached only 31% of the intended beneficiaries, as several s...

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...

The direction was issued after the department's data showed that around 4 lakh ration card holders did not collect their ration for two mon...

The beneficiaries will get the subsidy amount in advance in their bank accounts and they will have to buy the foodgrains from any ration sh...

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 ...

In the second phase, the e-POS system will be extended to block headquarters and in the third phase all panchayats will be covered, officia...

The remaining fair price shops are supposed to be fitted with ePOS machines by 2019, creating the biggest possible addition to micro ATM ne...

There are total 5.30 lakh fair price shops across the country and so far 1.24 lakh of them have got e-PoS machines.

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...