<span style="color: #222222;">Three more states have been included in One Nation, One Ration Card scheme. They are Odisha, Sikkim and Mizoram.  Consumer Affairs Minister Ram Vilas Paswan today announced the inclusion of these states in the scheme on Integrated Management of Public Distribution System. </span><br />'' <br />'' <span style="color: #222222;">Under this system, nation-wide portability of the benefits under National Food Security Act through One Nation, One Ration Card plan is implemented to enable the NFSA ration card holders to lift their entitled quota of subsidized food grains from any e-PoS enabled Fair Price Shop of their choice anywhere in the country, by using the existing and same ration card after Aadhaar authentication. </span><br />'' <br />'' <span style="color: #222222;">The facility so far is enabled in 17 States and UTs including Andhra Pradesh, Bihar, Gujarat, Haryana, Himachal Pradesh, Jharkhand, Kerala, Karnataka, Madhya Pradesh, Maharashtra, Rajasthan, Punjab and Uttar Pradesh. Further, constant efforts are being made to expand the reach of national portability to the beneficiaries of other states.<br />''</span><br />'' <span style="color: #222222;">By August 2020,  Uttarakhand, Nagaland and Manipur will also be added to the national cluster. Centre is doing all necessary arrangements to include remaining all 13 states like West Bengal,  Assam, Meghalaya, Delhi, Jammu and Kashmir, Tamil Nadu and  Chhattisgarh to the national cluster. It is confirmed that by 31st March 2021 all states will be added to One Nation, One Ration Card scheme.</span><br />''  <br />