Overview

• By June 30, 658 million of 809 million NFSA beneficiaries (82 percent) completed Aadhaar-based e-KYC verification.
• Authorities have removed 58 million fake or duplicate ration cards from the Public Distribution System to purge ineligible households.
• Odisha has suspended 2.058 million ration cards for three months pending e-KYC and will cancel those still unverified, while Ludhiana reports 360,000 unverified beneficiaries likely to miss July–September grain allocations.
• Under the One Nation One Ration Card scheme, migrants can complete biometric checks at any fair price shop to access subsidised grains where they work.
• The free-ration scheme under PMGKAY has been extended through 2028 with an annual subsidy of ₹2.03 lakh crore and a projected five-year cost of ₹11.8 trillion.