Linking your Aadhaar Card with your bank account is required to receive Direct Benefit Transfer (DBT) payments from the Government of India - this includes LPG subsidy, PM-KISAN payments, scholarship …
The Department of Food, Civil Supplies and Consumer Affairs in Ladakh has been operational since 1970 - well before Ladakh became a separate Union Territory in August 2019. The UT covers two districts…
Lakshadweep is India's smallest Union Territory - 36 islands spread across 32 sq km in the Arabian Sea, 220 to 440 km west of Kochi. Only 10 of these islands are inhabited. The PDS here works very dif…
Dadra and Nagar Haveli and Daman and Diu is India's youngest Union Territory - formed on January 26, 2020 through the merger of two former UTs: Dadra and Nagar Haveli (headquartered in Silvassa) and D…
In Andaman and Nicobar Islands, a Ration Card is officially called a Family Identity Card (FIC) - a name unique to this Union Territory. The UT has 3 districts and hundreds of islands with an elaborat…
Chandigarh is India's smallest Union Territory by area - just 114 sq km - yet it has a well-structured PDS system with 61 Fair Price Shops serving eligible cardholders. The Department of Food and Supp…
Puducherry is a Union Territory with four geographically separate enclaves - Puducherry, Karaikal, Mahe, and Yanam - spread across three different states (Tamil Nadu, Kerala, and Andhra Pradesh border…
Sikkim has a pro-poor governance philosophy backed by its Mission Poverty Free Sikkim initiative, which guides how the state implements food security programmes. The state issues PHH and AAY Ration Ca…
Arunachal Pradesh is India's largest state by area in the Northeast with 26 districts spread across challenging terrain. The state has two unique features in its Ration Card system. First, the ration …
Mizoram has a Ration Card system built around its unique traditional governance structure. Every ration card application in the state requires a recommendation letter from the concerned Village Counci…