Finance Minister: "Migrant labourers will be able to access food through a 'one nation one ration' card no matter where they are. 100% national portability by March 2021. To benefit nearly 670 million people". Follow thread for facts:
Launched in April 2018, the One Nation-One-Ration-Card scheme should have given migrants access to rations wherever they were by now. The programme is under various stages of implementation, with some states more advanced than others & currently of little use.
Over the past year, One-Nation-One-Ration-Card was introduced in 8 states, extended to 4 more in Jan 2020. In Feb 2020, Ministry for Consumer Affairs, Food & Public Distribution said it would be implemented in all 29 states from 1 June 2020.
This February, there were only 734 transactions under One-Nation-One-Ration-Card scheme, of which 583 transactions were in Telangana alone. Millions who should have been using it--borne as it is on #Aadhar--have never heard of it. Our investigation: article-14.com/post/the-natio…
