What are the rights of having Ration card ?

Question

Can we add the names of our relatives who do not have thier own house in our ration card ?

Answer 1

If they are living in your hour with you jointly you can add them:

Otherwise ask them to apply in a plain paper to the special Thasildar in your area with proof of living in a rented house.The revenue inspector will come and verify: after verification they will issue:

Answer 2

Janmejaya K Sinha
Over the past decade, one has noticed the relative decline of the ration card as a proof of identity. Access to the public distribution shops for essential items had facilitated the spread of ration cards. The process had never been complete or quite fair and many people could not get ration cards. Yet, because of its relatively wide spread, with about 220 million Indians having a ration card, it widely became the closest proxy to a unique proof of identity.

With the waning importance of public distribution of late, especially in the cities, its importance has waned. People use several proxies as a proof of identity today—these range from the permanent account number (40 million cards), the passport, an electricity bill or telephone bill, a driver’s license or even mail received at an address. There is, therefore, an unambiguous need for a single identifier—the equivalent of the US social security number—in India.

I believe the election card offers real potential as a unique single identifier. Every Indian over the age of 18 is permitted to vote and in general people like the right to vote and would, on average, seek an election card. Taking advantage of the opportunities that technology provides, the election card could be introduced as a chip-enabled biometric card for every Indian. The card would capture the name, age, address, blood group, thumb impression and picture of the holder. It would carry a unique number that would stay with a single individual over his lifetime. This number could be used on all other documents and would thus provide a fraud free and non-transferable single identifier.

The introduction of such a single identifier would offer substantial benefits to the overall system. Currently, only 35% of Indian households have a banking relationship. In fact, the eight major Indian cities provide a stunning 49% of total banking business in India. Beyond the top 25 cities, the issues around the proof of an individual’s identity are pronounced. From the point of view of financial services companies, the absence of a unique single identifier restricts the ability to create an effective credit bureau tracking individual credit histories. This inhibits the growth of retail credit, especially clean products like personal loans, which are not asset backed, and so considered more risky.

The election card offers real potential as a unique single identifier for all Indians
Currently, financial companies deal with the high levels of retail fraud by resorting to strong-arm collection tactics to manage their loan portfolios. A single identifier provides the backbone of a robust credit bureau and thus facilitates such lending. It would also help the banking system comply with the ‘knowing your customers’ norms, much required in the current insecure environment.

Likewise, on the payments side, a chip- enabled card could double up as a debit card and challenge the wide prevalence of currency in the economy. Merchant establishments would be encouraged to invest in POS machines especially if the disbursements on government schemes (various rozgar schemes) could come through such an election *** debit card. Not only that, the leakage so rampant with government schemes could also be much better controlled by payments becoming cashless.

The whole area of taxation would also similarly benefit as this number would be sought on more and more transactions. Both detection and compliance in the tax area could be better managed. There are other areas too where being able to identify every individual uniquely would help enormously, be it our census or the whole area of disease management. One could go on and on.

A chip-enabled biometric election card would strongly signal to the world our robust democracy and empower our people on the way. The Election Commission, or the finance ministry, could take the lead in directing a body like the National Informatics Centre to create these cards for all Indians on a war-footing.

Naturally, such a venture will entail a very high one time cost ranging between Rs 5,000-10,000 crore and significant maintenance costs. Yet, just stemming leakage from government programmes could provide much of that money. Most industries would enthusiastically support such a move. India needs it—it would be money well spent.

Answer 3

we can add the names of people i mean our relation who live with us in our house

any citizen who is major can get ration card

Answer 4

Ration cards do not support RIGHTS, they do give you very controlled privileges.