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Hunger / HDI | PDS/ Ration/ Food Security
PDS/ Ration/ Food Security

PDS/ Ration/ Food Security

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The key findings of the report titled Fulfilling the promise of One Nation One Ration Card: A frontline perspective from 5 Indian states (released in April, 2022), which has been prepared by Dalberg and Omidyar Network India, are as follows (please click here to access):

• The study brings to light both demand and supply-side perspectives on the ONORC. The study has been done by Dalberg in partnership with Kantar, and with support from Omidyar Network India. A mixed-methods, data-driven approach was used for the study.

• Two key prerequisites for rolling out ONORC were largely fulfilled in the five study states (i.e., Andhra Pradesh, Karnataka, Rajasthan, Uttar Pradesh, and Jharkhand): more than 98 percent of beneficiaries’ ration cards in each of the Dalberg study states was seeded with Aadhaar (for biometric authentication), and 95 percent of Fair Price Shops had an electronic point of sale machine (ePoS) for authenticating and recording transactions.

• A survey of 6,750 PDS beneficiaries was conducted along with a survey of 1,540 PDS dealers. The survey was conducted telephonically with all beneficiaries except women who were widowed, divorced or separated; for them, the researchers conducted the survey in person because they believed that such vulnerable beneficiaries would be difficult to reach or may be uncomfortable responding by phone. Interviews with PDS dealers were also conducted in person. Stakeholder interviews with government officials and researchers were also undertaken. 

• Both users and non-users of portability, including migrants and vulnerable populations, were interviewed. The sample included 25 percent migrants (N = 1703) who the Dalberg team expected to be the most impacted by the ONORC. In addition, the sample included 6 percent marginalized women (N = 377) who were widowed, divorced, or separated to understand if they faced any specific challenges. 

Ration card holders' experience in the five study states 

• Around 12 percent of households with a ration card tried to use PDS portability recently; 20 percent of migrant households with a ration card tried to use PDS portability recently.

• Roughly 6 percent of all ration card holders who had not used PDS portability would like to do so in the future; at least one-fifth of them had not used it, because they were unaware of ration portability.

• Nearly 12 percent of households that tried availing rations using portability experienced a transaction failure compared to 9 percent of households overall who experienced failures (for portability and non-portability transactions combined) when trying to collect their rations. 

• About 4 percent of households that tried to access rations under portability could not do so, as compared to 1 percent of households using PDS overall.

Experience of PDS dealers

• About 97 percent of PDS dealers knew that ration portability was possible; nearly 73 percent knew that inter-state ration portability was allowed. 

• Nearly 66 percent of PDS dealers reported receiving ration card holders not registered to their FPS; approximately 28 percent of these PDS dealers were unable to serve at least some portability customers, primarily due to technology failures or because they feared running out of stocks. 

• Around 10 percent of PDS dealers ran out of stock at least once in the three months preceding the survey, often due to demand fluctuation under portability.

• About 32 percent of PDS dealers felt that portability would make their business model unviable, at least some of the time.
 
• Nearly 52 percent of PDS dealers did not use exception handling methods when ePoS-based transactions failed due to biometric authentication or connectivity failure

About the ONORC

• The “One Nation One Ration Card (ONORC)” scheme is a one-of-its-kind citizen-centric initiative in the country, swiftly implemented in 34 states/ UTs in a short-span of time (as of August 2021), after being sanctioned in 2018-19 and implemented from August 2019.

• In a written reply by the Minister for Consumer Affairs, Food and Public Distribution, Shri Ramvilas Paswan, in Rajya Sabha on March 20, 2020, it was said that under the PDS reforms, a scheme on "Integrated Management of Public Distribution System (IM-PDS)" is being implemented w.e.f. April 2018 in all states/ UTs. The minister had stated that the main objective of the scheme is to introduce nationwide portability of ration card holders under NFSA (2013), through 'One Nation One Ration Card' system. This system enables the migratory ration card holders to lift their entitled food grains from any Fair Price Shop (FPS) of their choice in the country by using their existing/ same ration card issued in their home states/ UTs after biometric authentication on electronic Point of Sale (ePoS) devices installed at the Fair Price Shops.


 

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