One Nation One Ration Card (ONORC)

ONORC, launched in August 2019 and implemented across all 36 States and UTs, enables portability of PDS entitlements — allowing any NFSA beneficiary to collect their entitled foodgrains from any FPS in the country using Aadhaar-based biometric authentication. This is critical for migrant workers who change their location of residence but retain their NFSA entitlements from their home state. ONORC is operationally dependent on the digital backend (ePoS, centralised ration card management, Aadhaar seeding) that SMART-PDS and now SARTHAK-PDS underpin.