Ration Shop New Facilities: Now not only food grains will be available at ration shops, but now many other facilities can also be availed here.
Often on hearing the name of the ration shop, the image comes to mind that there will be many sacks kept there and there will be a scale, where people will be being given food grains. But, now this is going to change, because now along with the sale of food grains at ration shops, many other facilities will also be available. Till now, only food grains or government goods like oil etc. were available at ration shops, but now the benefit of CSC related service can also be availed from these shops.
In fact, to increase the income of ration shops, the Food Ministry has appointed CSC e-Governance Service India Ltd. (CSC) has entered into an agreement with This will not only benefit the common people, while the earning opportunities are going to increase for those who have allotted ration shops. Once the CSC service is started, additional facilities related to customers such as payment of utility bills including electricity, water and other facilities can be availed from these shops. That is, after this you will be able to deposit the bill of your house from the ration shop.
What is update?
As per the official information, the Department of Food and Public Distribution has released the CSC e-Governance Services India Ltd. Model Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) has been signed with It is being told that the objective of this MoU is to increase business opportunities and income for ration shops by supplying CSC services through willing fair price shop dealers. The MoU was signed by Deputy Secretary (PD) Jyotsna Gupta and CSC Vice President Sarthik Sachdev.
In such a situation, now ration shops can be developed as CSC service centers. Such CSC centers will be asked to select additional services at their convenience. These include bill payment, PAN application, passport application, Election Commission related services etc. These services will be available to the customer at the nearest ration shop and on the other hand these shops will also get a source of additional income.
Let us inform that under the National Food Security Act, the central government is providing five kg of food grains per person per family at a very low rate of one to three rupees per kg through ration shops. More than 80 crore people come under this law.
