New Delhi: Supreme Court of India on Tuesday (June 29) has directed each state and Union Territory to implement the ‘One Nation, One Ration Card’ scheme till July 31.
‘One Nation, One Ration Card’ scheme for migrant employees must be applied by all states by July 31 the Supreme Court stated.
In a suo motu case, the Supreme Court stated that the distribution of dry ration and group kitchen shall proceed till the COVID-19 pandemic rages on. It additionally stated that the states ought to body schemes for the distribution of meals grains to those that would not have ration playing cards. The Centre ought to allocate the identical accordingly, the Bench additionally stated.
The Supreme Court additionally directed the Centre to make nationwide portals for registration of the unrecognised employees by July 31.
A bench of justices Ashok Bhushan and M R Shah had on June 11 reserved its judgement on pleas of activists Anjali Bharadwaj, Harsh Mander and Jagdeep Chhokar searching for the implementation of welfare measures for such employees.
The recent plea was filed in a pending suo motu case of 2020 during which the highest courtroom had in May final 12 months taken cognisance of issues and miseries of migrant labourers and had handed a slew of instructions, together with asking states to not cost fare from migrant employees and supply them free meals till they board trains or buses.
While reserving the order, the bench had requested the states and union territories (UTs) to implement ‘one nation, one ration card’ (ONORC) scheme because it permits migrant employees to get ration on the place of their work in different states as properly the place their ration playing cards are usually not registered.
The Centre had stated that whereas most states have been implementing the ONORC, 4 of them — Assam, Chhattisgarh, Delhi and West Bengal — had not carried out so and implementing it might rely on their technical readiness.
The Centre later additionally stated the AAP authorities’s declare concerning the launch of the ONORC plan is deceptive as a lot of migrant employees are unable to take the advantage of subsidised National Food Security Act (NFSA) meals grains in Delhi as there isn’t a full implementation.
