 "People queuing up in front of a ration shop to get their monthly quota | Photo: Sanjay K Sharma")
A few weeks back, Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman, while giving an assessment of the steps taken by the Centre as part of Covid relief, said that considerable progress had been made towards ration card portability, commonly known as One Nation One Ration Card (ONORC) and almost 650 million Food Act beneficiaries can now avail this option.
ONORC is a highly ambitious scheme that the Central government started few years back to bring about ration card portability so that beneficiaries under the National Food Security Act (NFSA) can avail their monthly quota of subsidised foodgrains from anywhere by just feeding in
