Jammu, May 04: On the directions of Principal Secretary to the Government, Department of Disaster Management, Relief, Rehabilitation & Reconstruction Chandrakar Bharti, a team of officers headed by Additional Secretary to the Government Sudhir Bali, accompanied by Deputy Commissioner Relief, Vijay Sharma and senior officers of Directorate of Food, Civil Supplies & Consumer Affairs, Jammu and field officers from the Relief Organization and FCS&CA visited various Migrant Zones and ration depots to take stock of the ration distribution in terms of the Special Relief Ration Scheme for Kashmiri/Jammu Migrants, notified by the J&K Government recently.
The team interacted with migrant beneficiaries and informed them that ration distribution is being carried out by the Food, Civil Supplies & Consumer Affairs Department in accordance with the Special Relief Ration Scheme for Kashmiri/Jammu Migrants notified vide Government Order No. 15-JK(FCS&CA) of 2026 dated 05.03.2026 from all the designated ration depots in Jammu Province and the migrant can get ration from any nearest ration depot. It was further clarified that all Relief Ration Card holders, whether PHH, NPHH or Special Category, shall continue to receive 11 kg of free ration per person per month along with 1 kg of sugar, while migrants under the non-relief category, such as pensioners, categorized as NPHH, are entitled to 5 Kg ration at government-approved NFSA rates.
For all those migrant ration card holders who may not have been able to collect the ration during the last month (April) can collect the two-month ration (April and May) in the current month after completing e-KYC formalities. “Those who may have received less quantity of ration due to any technical glitch in April or in the current month would get the balance ration also,” they were told.
The team of officers also interacted with the beneficiaries of the social sector schemes at various locations.
It was informed that more than 450 families are already availing benefits of Old Age Pension, Widow Pension, Disability Pension and Marriage Assistance after integration of migrant ration cards into NFSA database, in addition to the monthly relief benefits.
People were advised to beware of some criminal and mischievous elements who are frustrated with reforms introduced by the Government in ration distribution and are spreading false propaganda on social media about the discontinuation of migrant status after integration into the NFSA database.
The visit was coordinated by Assistant Commissioner (Relief), Kailash Devi under the overall supervision of Relief & Rehabilitation Commissioner (M), J&K Dr Arvind Karwani.
Dr Karwani reiterated that the integration of migrant ration cards into the NFSA database is being done in compliance with relevant Government Orders and rules and that Food, Civil Supplies & Consumer Affairs and National Informatics Centre is working in tandem with the Relief Organization, to fully operationalize the new scheme to all migrants within the shortest time period. He appealed to all eligible migrants to immediately fill online applications for various social sector schemes and avail the benefits of these welfare schemes, which they were not eligible to avail earlier due to migrant cards being non-digitized and not integrated with NFSA database.
