Bhopal, State Bureau. One Nation-One Ration Card system may be applicable in Madhya Pradesh from December. After this, more than five and a half crore beneficiaries of public distribution system can take wheat, rice and salt from any ration shop at a concession rate. On going to work in other states, they will get this facility there too. For this, more than four crore beneficiaries have been registered with Aadhaar number in the state. Every day about one lakh beneficiaries are being registered. It also includes migrant workers.
More than four crore beneficiaries registered with Aadhaar number
According to the census of 2011 through 25 thousand 490 ration shops in the state, wheat and rice are being provided to one crore 11 lakh families i.e. more than 50 million to 6 lakh beneficiaries at the rate of Re 1 kg. Under the National Food Security Act, 75 percent of the total population of the state comes under food security. However, this number is more than this. Regarding this, the state government is also constantly demanding from the central government to increase the quota.
In fact, due to the quota being fixed, about eight lakh 82 thousand families are still deprived of subsidized ration. During the lockdown, the state government gave a three-month ration to these families free of cost. Now the government has decided that an eligibility slip will be issued to all these families. Sources say that these will also be included in the One Nation-One Ration Card scheme. For this, survey work is going on in rural areas.
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Enter the information server
Food department officials said that this facility has already been provided to the beneficiaries in the state through a point of sale machine that they can take ration from any shop in the district. It is gradually being expanded. The Aadhaar numbers of more than four crore beneficiaries have been linked. Their complete information is recorded in the server. As soon as their details will be recorded in the point of sale machine, the complete information will be revealed and ration will be given.
In this facility was also provided that if the beneficiary wants, he can also get his share ration in two or three times. Director of Food Civil Supplies Department, Taran Kumar Pithode, says that work is being done in the state fast on One Nation-One Ration Card. Aadhaar numbers of more than eighty percent of the beneficiaries have been taken.
