mahafood.gov.in Application for Ration Card Maharashtra : Food ,Civil Supplies & Consumer Protection Department

Organization : Maharashtra Food, Civil Supplies & Consumer Protection Department
Facility : Application for Ration Card
Applicable State : Maharashtra

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Tricolor Ration Cards Scheme :
The affluent families do not purchase foodgrains under PDS and therefore with a view to curb diversion of foodgrains and provide more foodgrains to the needy families, the State Govt. introduced Tricolor ration card scheme w. e. f. 1st May, 1999. Accordingly, as per following criterias 3 different colored ration cards are issued in the State :-

Yellow Ration Cards :
Under Targeted Public Distribution System the following criteria are applied :
** Families having annual income up to Rs. 15,000/- having been included in IRDP List of 1997-98.
** None of the members in the family should be a doctor or a lawyer or an architect or a chartered accountant.
** None of the members in the family should be a professional tax payer, a sales tax payer or an income tax payer or eligible to pay such tax.
** The family should not posses residential telephone.
** The family should not posses four wheeler vehicle.
** None of the family members should hold total two hectare rain fed or one hectare semi-irrigated or 1/2 hectare irrigated (double in drought prone talukas) land.

Antyodaya Anna Yojana(AAY) :
In the state Antyodaya Anna Yojana has been started w.e.f. 1st May 2001 Under this scheme 35 Kgs foodgrains ( Wheat at the rate- Rs. 2.00 per Kg+ Rice at rate Rs. 3.00 per Kg ) is distributed to the AAY cardholders.

Criteria For Saffron Ration Cards
** Families having total annual income of more than Rs. 15,000 and less than 1 lakh.
** None of the members in the family should have four wheeler mechanical vehicle (excluding taxi- driver).
** The family in all should not posses four hectare or more irrigated land.

Criteria For White Ration Cards :
The families having annual income of Rs. 1 Lakh or above, any member of the family possessing a four wheeler or the family aggregately holding more than 4 hectare irrigated land are issued white ration cards.

Targeted Public Distribution System :
Under the Minimum Common Need Programme of Government of India, the poor families in the State were provided food grains at subsidized rate w. e. f. 1 st June, 1997. BPL Yellow rationcard holders are provided with 35 Kgs foodgrains (Wheat + Rice) and APL Saffron rationcard holders are provided with 15 Kgs foodgrains (Wheat + Rice )