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ELECTRONIC RATION CARDS: The smart cards will even carry details of the monthly entitlement of each poor family when they buy things at subsidised rates from fair price shops.

ELECTRONIC RATION CARDS: The smart cards will even carry details of the monthly entitlement of each poor family when they buy things at subsidised rates from fair price shops.

Haryana to replace ration cards with smart cards

The Haryana government has formulated a Rs1.53-billion plan to replace nearly 5.2 million ration cards in the state with smart cards. Once implemented, Haryana will become the first state in the country to have smart cards for the public distribution system, state government officials said.

SMART CARDS: In the future, ration cards could look and work like credit cards.

Ration cards that look like credit cards

A possible new look for the country's public distribution system is a ration card that looks and works like a credit card.

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