New Delhi, July 20: The Union Minister of State for Consumer Affairs, Food and Public Distribution, Sadhvi Niranjan Jyoti in a written reply to a question in Lok Sabha today informed that So far, at the national level about 92.8% ration cards have been seeded with Aadhaar of beneficiaries.
Union Minister said that 28 States and UTs have completed the Aadhaar seeding of respective ration cards. Further, Aadhaar seeding of ration cards is progressing slowly in other 8 States and UT of Jharkhand 97.5%, Mizoram 97%, Ladakh 94.7%.
Nagaland 86), West Bengal 79.8%, Arunachal Pradesh 59.7%, Assam 18% and Meghalaya (16.5%) due to multiple process in Aadhaar generation and their delivery to beneficiaries besides other reasons including technical for seeding with ration cards database.
Presently, the timeline given to all States/UTs under the Notification dated 08/02/2017 (as amended from time to time) for linking the Aadhaar numbers of beneficiaries with their ration cards has been extended up to 30/09/2021.
