Badnore launches ‘One Nation, One Ration Card’ scheme in Chandigarh

Tribune News Service
Chandigarh, October 31

UT Administrator VP Singh Badnore launched the “One Nation, One Ration Card” (ONORC) scheme in the city during the Rashtriya Ekta Diwas celebrations at Sukhna Lake here today.

UT Adviser Manoj Parida, Secretary, Food and Supplies and Consumer Affairs and Legal Metrology, UT, Vinod P Kavle, and other senior officials were also present on the occasion.

Chandigarh is the first UT to introduce the ONORC scheme with integration of the Direct Benefit Transfer (DBT) scheme.

UT First to introduce scheme

Chandigarh is the first UT to introduce the ONORC scheme with integration of the Direct Benefit Transfer (DBT) scheme.

Helpline number

The Food and Civil Supplies Department has setup a helpline number, 14445, and a dedicated service window in the office. Any migrant person has to either call on 14445 or visit the service window in the department to register under the “One Nation, One Ration Card” scheme.

This ONORC scheme enables migrant beneficiaries to get ration, even when he moves out to other states or UTs. This is particularly helpful for the migrant labour, who stays a few months at one place and thereafter goes to other state for work. Without portability of the ration card, these migrant people were deprived of their entitlement of ration under the National Food Security Act, 2013.

For this purpose, the Food and Civil Supplies Department has setup a helpline number, 14445, and a dedicated service window in the office. Any migrant person has to either call on 14445 or visit the service window in the department to register under the ONORC scheme.

Migrants have to bring their Aadhaar card, ration card and provide bank details and address in Chandigarh. They have to visit the office for biometric authentication. After successful registration, the food subsidy amount in lieu of food grains will be transferred into the migrant’s bank account as per the entitlement under the National Food Security Act.