Why in news:
 

• Recently, Rajasthan government launched 'One Nation, One Ration Card' scheme in the state.
• With this, Rajasthan became 12th state in the country to implement 'One Nation, One Ration Card' system.
• Under the One Nation, One Ration Card scheme, any citizen living in the country will have only one ration card.
• He will be able to take ration from anywhere, although having a Ration card is a prerequisite for availing the benefit of this scheme.
• Rajasthan now joins 11 other states namely Andhra Pradesh, Goa, Gujarat, Haryana, Karnataka, Kerala, Madhya Pradesh, Telangana, Tamil Nadu, Tripura and Uttar Pradesh which have completed this reform.

About the scheme
 

• The 'One Nation, One Ration Card' system is a citizen-centric reform.
•  Its implementation ensures the availability of ration at any Fair Price Shop (FPS) across the country to the beneficiaries, especially migrant workers and their families, under the National Food Security Act (NFSA) and other welfare schemes.
• Under the National Food Security Act, 2013, about 81 crore persons are entitled to buy subsidized foodgrain — rice at Rs 3/kg, wheat at Rs 2/kg, and coarse grains at Re 1/kg — from their designated Fair Price Shops (FPS) of the Targeted Public Distribution System (TPDS).
• Currently, about 23 crore ration cards have been issued to nearly 80 crore beneficiaries of NFSA in all states and UTs.
• The new system, based on a technological solution, will identify a beneficiary through biometric authentication on electronic Point of Sale (ePoS) devices installed at the FPSs, and enable that person to purchase the quantity of foodgrains to which she is entitled under the NFSA.
  
   

Empowering migrant labourers
 

• This reform system especially empowers migrant workers, daily wage workers, rag pickers, street dwellers, temporary workers in organized and unorganized sectors, domestic workers, etc., who often have to keep changing their location for daily wages and to ensure square meal a day.
• This technology-driven reform-system enables migrant beneficiaries to get their quota of food grains from any e-POS enabled shops of their choice, anywhere in the country.