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LATEST NEWS UPDATES | Hurdles ahead for One Nation One Ration Card scheme -Sameet Panda

Hurdles ahead for One Nation One Ration Card scheme -Sameet Panda

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published Published on Oct 7, 2021   modified Modified on Oct 19, 2021

-GaonConnection.com

The One Nation One Ration card scheme was launched in June 2019 to reform the Public Distribution System (PDS). However, close to 100 million people are estimated to be excluded from the PDS. There are several other challenges in the new scheme that need to be addressed.

The condition of migrant workers suddenly shot to the limelight in the early stages of the COVID-19 pandemic as hundreds of thousands of migrants walked several kilometres from the cities of their work to their native villages during the strict national lockdowns last year in 2020.

As work came to a grinding halt in the informal sector, migrants lost their jobs overnight and were plunged into an economic crisis. 

Ironically, at the time when many workers were facing acute hardships, the godowns of the Food Corporation of India (FCI) were stocked with 119 million metric tons of food grains, including unmilled paddy, which is three times the buffer stock it was required to maintain.

Facing criticism, the Government of India launched the Pradhan Mantri Garib Kalyan Anna Yojana under the National Food Security Act, 2013 (NFSA) to provide five kilograms (kg) of additional rice or wheat and one kg of pulses free of cost to all the ration cardholders.

Since many migrant workers do not have ration cards, the Indian government also announced free foodgrains for migrant workers who do not hold ration cards. Parallelly, the central government pushed the state governments to adopt the One Nation One Ration Card scheme to enable the portability of ration cards.

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GaonConnection.com, 7 October, 2021, https://en.gaonconnection.com/one-nation-one-ration-card-scheme-pds-migrant-workers-covid19-pandemic-food-corporation-food-security-aadhaar/


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