Ration Card : Know Your Entitlement @ipds.gujarat.gov.in

Ration Card : Know Your Entitlement @ipds.gujarat.gov.in

Ration Card : Know Your Entitlement @ipds.gujarat.gov.in

Ration Card : Know Your Entitlement @ipds.gujarat.gov.in

Ration cards are an official document issued by state governments in India to households that are eligible to purchase subsidized food grain from the Public Distribution System (under the National Food Security Act). They also serve as a common form of identification for many Indians.[1]

Under the National Food Security Act, all state governments in India have to identify households that are eligible for purchasing subsidized food grain from the Public Distribution System and provide them with ration cards. There are two types of ration cards under NFSA[2]:

Priority ration card - priority ration cards are issued to households that meet the eligibility criteria set by their state government. Each priority household is entitled to 5 kilograms of food grain per member.

Antyodaya (AAY) ration cards are issued to "poorest of poor" households. Each AAY household is entitled to 35 kilograms of food grain.



Many problems with the PDS ration system exist. There are millions of ineligible and fraudulent ration cards  at the same time, millions of poor families have no ration card. PDS shop owners in collusion with government officials divert the subsidized food supply and petroleum to the black market. Card numbers are inflated by those held under false or duplicate names, in the names of dead people, or by real but ineligible people.

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