Ration Card Guide

A ration card is the household paper for the public distribution system. An eligible family uses it at a fair price shop. Under the National Food Security Act the central categories are Antyodaya Anna Yojana (AAY) and Priority Household (PHH). APL and BPL are older names that some states still print.

This site explains the steps in English and Hinglish. It does not run a status check, a list search, or a download. Those links leave the site and open the real portal in a new tab: NFSA nationally, and the state system (RCMS, ePDS, WBPDS, TNPDS, Ahara, and the others) for anything that touches your household.

Use only addresses that end in .gov.in or .nic.in. A page that looks like the food department, or that puts “NFSA” or “EPDS Bihar” in the name, is not the official site if the address is something else. The state list has the official links. For Bihar, that means sfc.bihar.gov.in or epds.bihar.gov.in, not a similar .com name.