Controller of Rationing and Director of civil supplies
Government of Maharashtra
Type of Facility : Apply Tricolour Ration Card online
Home Page : http://controllerofrationing.net/

TriColour Ration Card Scheme :
The affluent families do not purchase food grains under PDS and therefore with a view to curb diversion of food grains and to provide more food grains to the needy families, the State Govt.as per following criteria 3 different coloured ration cards are issued in the State

I. Yellow Ration Cards :
** Families having annual income up to Rs.15,000/- (Urban Area)
** None of the members in the family should be a doctor, lawyer, architect, or chartered accountant.
** None of the members in the family should be professional taxpayer, sales tax payer or income tax payer or eligible to pay such tax.
** The family should not posses residential telephone.
** The family should not posses’ four wheeler vehicle.
** All the persons in the family should not hold total two hectare rain fed or one hectare semi-irrigated or ½ hectare irrigated (double in drought affected talukas ) land.
(i) The Govt. has taken decision to issue a BPL Ration Card on temporary Basis to the all Bidi workers, all Pardhi & Kolhati community vide GR dated 9/9/2008.
(ii)The Govt. has taken decision to issue a BPL Ration Card on temporary Basis to the Abandoned women vied GR dated 29/9/2008 & 21/2/2009.
(iii)The Govt. has also taken decision to issue BPL Cards to ex-mill workers with provision that they will get benefit of food grains of after distribution to regular BPL families and food grain available with shopkeeper.

II. Saffron Ration Cards :
** Families having annual income of Rs.15,001 to 1 lakh.
** None of the members in the family should have four wheeler mechanical vehicles (excluding taxi).
** The family in all should not posses four hectare or more irrigated land.

III. 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 aggregate holding more than 4 hectare irrigated land issued white ration cards.

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