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17 states implement 'One Nation, One Ration Card' system
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SME Times News Bureau | 11 Mar, 2021
Seventeen states have successfully operationalised "One Nation One
Ration Card system" with Uttarakhand being the latest State to complete
the reform.
States completing One Nation One Ration Card system
reform are eligible for additional borrowing of 0.25 per cent of Gross
State Domestic Product (GSDP).
Accordingly, these States have
been granted additional borrowing permission of Rs. 37,600 crore by the
Department of Expenditure, Ministry of Finance.
One Nation One
Ration Card System is an important citizen centric reform. Its
implementation ensures availability of ration to beneficiaries under
National Food Security Act (NFSA) and other welfare schemes, especially
the migrant workers and their families, at any Fair Price Shop (FPS)
across the country.
The reform especially empowers the migratory
population mostly labourers, daily wagers, urban poor like rag pickers,
street dwellers, temporary workers in organised and unorganised sectors,
domestic workers etc, who frequently change their place of dwelling to
be self reliant in food security. This technology driven reform enables
the migrant beneficiaries to get their entitled quota of food grains
from any electronic point of sale (e-PoS) enabled fair Price Shops of
their choice anywhere in the country.
The reform also enables the
States in better targeting of beneficiaries, elimination of bogus and
duplicate ineligible card holders resulting in enhanced welfare and
reduced leakage.
Additional borrowing limit of 0.25 per cent of
the Gross State Domestic Product (GSDP) is allowed to the States only on
completion of both of the following actions: Aadhar seeding of all the
ration cards and beneficiaries in the state and automation of all the
FPSs in the State.
In view of the resource requirement to meet
multiple challenges posed by the Covid-19 pandemic, the Union government
had on May 17, 2020 enhanced the borrowing limit of the states by 2 per
cent of their GSDP. Half of this special dispensation i.e. one per cent
of GSDP was linked to undertaking citizen centric reforms by the
states. The four citizen centric areas for reforms identified by the
Department of Expenditure were Implementation of One Nation One Ration
Card System, Ease of doing business reform, Urban Local body/utility
reforms and Power Sector reforms.
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