Mokokchung, December 7 (MTNews): During August 2019 to November 2022, Nagaland recorded a total of 29,308 One Nation One Ration Card (ONORC) portability transactions where 28,898 were Intra State Portability Transactions and 410 were Inter-State Portability Transactions. Meanwhile, a total of 93.31 crore portability transactions were recorded in the entire country.
This was informed by Union Minister of State for Consumer Affairs, Food and Public Distribution, Sadhvi Niranjan Jyoti in a written reply to a question in Lok Sabha today.
She further informed that ONORC plan, for nation-wide portability of the National Food Security Act 2013 (NFSA) benefits, is presently enabled in all the 36 States/UTs, covering the entire NFSA population in the country.
Under the plan, the NFSA beneficiaries have been empowered with the choice to lift their entitled food grain from any Fair Price Shop (FPS) of their choice, anywhere in the country, by using their existing ration card with biometric authentication on an electronic Point of Sale (ePoS) device.
ONORC plan is particularly beneficial for those NFSA beneficiaries who frequently change their place of dwelling in search of temporary employment or for other reasons and miss out their food security benefits due to migration – such as numerous workers/laborers, daily-wagers, urban poor like rag-pickers, street-dwellers, temporary workers in both organized and unorganized sectors, domestic workers and so on.