Ration Card Latest Update: Now to get free ration, you will not have to stand in line for hours at the Kotedar’s shop. Uttarakhand government is going to start food grain ATM. Uttarakhand will be the third state to start this scheme.
Ration Card Latest Update: If you also have a ration card and you take advantage of the ration scheme being run by the government every month, then this news is for you. The new system is going to be implemented by the government. After this, you are going to get rid of the hassle of waiting in line for hours to get ration.
Don’t have to go to the shops
Yes, you will no longer have to go round the kotedar’s shop to get ration. A new scheme is going to be started soon by the Uttarakhand government. State Food and Civil Supplies Minister Rekha Arya told that the eligible people will no longer have to visit the shops for the free ration available from the ration shop.
Will be able to withdraw food grains from ATM on need
He said that the department is working on a new scheme. Soon it will be started in some districts as a pilot project. Cabinet Minister Rekha Arya said that just as any person withdraws money from ATMs when needed, in the same way, eligible people will now be able to take food grains.
Already implemented in Odisha and Haryana
The Food Minister said that under the World Food Scheme, Food Grain ATMs are going to be started across the state. Approval has been received in this regard. Let us tell you that at present the scheme of Food Grain ATM is applicable in the states of Orissa and Haryana. But now Uttarakhand will become the third state to implement this scheme.
This machine will work exactly like an ATM machine. It will also have a screen like an ATM. Ration card holders will be able to withdraw wheat, rice and pulses from it like an ATM machine.
