92.8% ration cards have been seeded with Aadhaar of beneficiaries

The Union Minister of State for Consumer Affairs, Food and Public Distribution informed that So far, at the national level about 92.8% ration cards have been seeded with Aadhaar of beneficiaries.

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28 States/UTs have completed the Aadhaar seeding of respective ration cards.

Further, Aadhaar seeding of ration cards is progressing slowly in other 8 States/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.