The scheme allows only ration card holders under National Food Security Act to collect the quota of food grains from any fair price shop in India.
Other states that have seen the highest transactions include Haryana with 27,875 transactions and Maharashtra with 22,323.
The distribution under the ONORC scheme is implemented through all e-PoS enabled fair price shops in Delhi for all the migrant beneficiaries
Five-kilo foodgrains per person/month are provided free of cost under the PMGKAY to 81.35 crore beneficiaries covered under National Food Security Act
Thanks to normal monsoon last year, the warehouses are overflowing and the Centre has elbow room to extend delivery of free foodgrain till end of FY22
On March 26 last year, the Centre had announced a slew of measures such as free foodgrains and hiked MGNREGA wages, doles to Jan-Dhan account holder
The android-based mobile application, developed by the National Informatics Centre, is currently in Hindi and English. Gradually, it would be made ava
States completing the One Nation-One Ration Card system reform are eligible for additional borrowing of 0.25% of gross state domestic product