4 More States Join Ration Card Portability

Centre is planning nationwide launch by June 2020

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Ration card holders in Kerala and Karnataka along with Rajasthan and Haryana will be able to buy subsidised food from ration shops in the neighbouring State from next month, Food Minister Ram Vilas Paswan said on Tuesday.

With effect from October 1, these two new clusters will join the existing State pairs of Andhra Pradesh and Telangana and Maharashtra and Gujarat as pioneers in inter-State portability of ration cards, he told a conference of Food Ministers and Secretaries from across the country.