The Food Supply Department has requested the ration card beneficiaries to get e-KYC done by December 31, otherwise they may be deprived of the benefits.
Ration Card Holder/Aadhar eKYC Link: There is important news for the ration card holders of Himachal Pradesh and Bihar. If you have not yet linked eKYC with Aadhaar card, then get it done soon, because the last date for linking eKYC with Aadhaar has been kept as 31st December, otherwise your name will be removed from the beneficiary list and you will not get the benefit of ration from the new year. .
Ration is given to ration card holders under the public distribution system, under this, ration card holders were given time till 30th November for e-KYC, but due to omission of many names, it has been extended till 31st December. Himachal Food The Supply Department has requested the ration card beneficiaries to get e-KYC done by December 31, otherwise they may be deprived of the benefits. Let us tell you that Solan district is at number one in Himachal Pradesh in getting e-KYC done, followed by Bilaspur and then Hamirpur. And other districts come next.
Get it done with Aadhaar by 31st December
Last months, under the National Food Security Act, 2013, the Bihar government has made it mandatory for every member of the Targeted Public Distribution System to link Aadhaar number and eKYC, the last date of which has been fixed as 31st December. Under this, it will be mandatory for all ration card holders who have not yet linked their cards to Aadhaar to do so by December 31, 2023. If this does not happen, many ration card holders may be deprived of the benefits under Shri Rashmi Yojana. For this, instructions have been given by the state government to all the district officers to disseminate this information. If Aadhaar is not linked within this period, action will be taken to cancel the concerned ration card directly.
PMGKP deadline extended for 5 years
It is noteworthy that recently the Central Modi government has extended the Pradhan Mantri Garib Kalyan Yojana (PMGKAY), which provides free food grains, for the next five years. More than 80 crore beneficiaries will benefit from this. The benefit of this increased limit from January 1, 2024 can be availed till 2029. Let us tell you that the Center is providing free food grains to the beneficiaries of Antyodaya Anna Yojana (AAY) families and Priority Families (PHH) under PMGKAY for a period of one year starting from January 1, 2023. In December last year, the Center decided to merge PMGKAY with the National Food Security Act (NFSA), launched in 2020, to provide additional food grains free of cost.
