Delhi govt's claim on implementation of 'one nation one ration card' misleading, Centre tells SC

In an affidavit, the Union government said the AAP government has implemented the ‘one nation-one ration card’ plan only in Circle 63 Seemapuri New Delhi: The Centre has told the Supreme Court that AAP government’s claim regarding the launch of ‘One Nation One Ration Card’ plan is misleading as a large number of migrants workers are unable to take the benefit of subsidised National Food Security Act foodgrains in Delhi as there is no full implementation. In its affidavit filed before the top court, the Union government said the AAP government has implemented one nation-one ration card plan only in Circle 63 Seemapuri. “It is submitted that the claim of GNCTD regarding launch of One Nation One Ration Card plan in NCT of Delhi is misleading, as they claim to have implemented it only in Circle 63 Seemapuri. The top court had also taken strong note of the delay in the development of a software meant to register workers of the unorganised sector to create a national database and posed queries to the Centre as to how the benefit of free food grain till November this year under the ‘Pradhan Mantri Garib Kalyan Yojna’ would reach to migrant labourers having no ration cards.