Ration Card Relief: Aadhaar Seeding Deadline Extended to June 30, 2025

Food and Consumer Protection Department, Government of Bihar has extended the mandatory last date for ration card holders. This will benefit the cardholders a lot. Earlier, the last date for Aadhaar seeding was made mandatory till 31st March. Now it has been extended to 30th June 2025.

Ration card holders got relief

Aadhaar seeding was made mandatory till 31st March 2025 for every member mentioned in the ration card of Targeted Public Distribution System under the National Food Security Act, 2013 by the Ministry of Consumer Affairs, Food and Public Distribution, Department of Food and Public Distribution, Government of India. The period for mandatory seeding of Aadhaar for every member mentioned in the ration card has been extended by the Government of India till 30th June 2025.

Food and Consumer Protection Department issued information

The Food and Consumer Protection Department has issued information and requested all ration card holders to get Aadhaar seeding of every member mentioned in their ration card done by 30th June 2025. For this, every member can get free Aadhaar seeding (eKYC) done through EPOS machine maintained at any Targeted Public Distribution System vendor shop.

If Aadhaar seeding of any member mentioned in a ration card is not done by June 30, then action will be taken to delete the names of all such members from the ration card with effect from July 1, 2025 and the benefit of food grains against such members will not be given to the beneficiary family.