{"id":95672,"date":"2021-03-16T17:51:12","date_gmt":"2021-03-16T12:21:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.forumias.com\/?p=95672"},"modified":"2021-03-17T12:31:07","modified_gmt":"2021-03-17T07:01:07","slug":"government-launches-mera-ration-mobile-app","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/government-launches-mera-ration-mobile-app\/","title":{"rendered":"Government launches &#8220;Mera Ration Mobile App&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><\/div>\n<h5><strong>What is the News? <\/strong><\/h5>\n<p>The Ministry of Consumer Affairs, Food, and Public Distribution launched the &#8216;Mera Ration&#8217; mobile app.<\/p>\n<h5><strong>About Mera Ration Mobile app:<\/strong><\/h5>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Mera Ration Mobile app <\/strong>will facilitate the &#8216;One Nation-One Ration Card&#8217; system. It aims to help those ration cardholders who move to new areas for livelihoods.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Developed by: <\/strong>Government of India in association with National Informatics Center(NIC).<\/li>\n<li><strong>Key Features of the app:<\/strong> The application allows beneficiaries to:\n<ul>\n<li>Find out the nearest fair price shop available according to the location.<\/li>\n<li>Users can check details of <strong>a)<\/strong> Recent transactions <strong>b) <\/strong>Status of the Aadhaar seeding and <strong>c) <\/strong>entitlement of the amount of rations available to them.<\/li>\n<li>Migrant beneficiaries can also register their migration details through the application. There is also an option for beneficiaries to enter suggestions\/feedback.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li><strong>Languages: <\/strong>Presently users get English and Hindi as preferred languages for operating the app. However, the government plans to make the app available to users in 14 different languages.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h5><strong>About One Nation-One Ration Card(ONORC) System:<\/strong><\/h5>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Ministry: <\/strong>Department of Food &amp; Public Distribution under the Ministry of Consumer Affairs.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Objective: <\/strong>The system envisages inter-state portability of ration cards under <a href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/inclusion-of-eligible-disabled-persons-under-national-food-security-act-2013\/\">National Food Security Act, 2013(NFSA).<\/a><\/li>\n<li><strong>Features: <\/strong>Under this, NFSA beneficiaries particularly migrant beneficiaries can claim \u00a0food-grains from any Fair Price Shop(FPS) in the country through existing ration cards with biometric\/Aadhaar authentication in a seamless manner.\n<ul>\n<li>The system also allows their family members back home to claim the balance of food-grains on the same ration card.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li><strong>States covered under this system: <\/strong>At present 32 States\/UTs are covered under ONORC and integration of the remaining 4 States\/UTs is expected to be completed in the next few months.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Source: <\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/pib.gov.in\/PressReleseDetailm.aspx?PRID=1704367\"><strong>PIB<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What is the News? The Ministry of Consumer Affairs, Food, and Public Distribution launched the &#8216;Mera Ration&#8217; mobile app. About Mera Ration Mobile app: Mera Ration Mobile app will facilitate the &#8216;One Nation-One Ration Card&#8217; system. It aims to help those ration cardholders who move to new areas for livelihoods. Developed by: Government of India&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/government-launches-mera-ration-mobile-app\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Government launches &#8220;Mera Ration Mobile App&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10317,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1566,1760,956,7965,9],"tags":[1414],"class_list":["post-95672","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daily-factly-articles","category-polity-and-nation","category-schemes-and-programs","category-miscellaneous-daily-factly-articles","category-public","tag-soc_4","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":{"total":0,"cached_at":"","cached_date":1704643762},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/95672","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10317"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=95672"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/95672\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=95672"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=95672"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=95672"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}