'One State, One Digital Card': Telangana to issue single-family card for ration, health, welfare schemes

Hyderabad: Telangana government is planning to issue a single digital card to every family in the state. The single card will provide medical care services and also avail ration and other welfare scheme benefits.

Chief Minister A Revanth Reddy held a review on family digital cards with the top officials of the State Medical and Health and Civil Supplies departments at his residence here on Monday.

The CM instructed the officials to conduct a study on the benefits of the digital cards, which were already issued in Rajasthan, Haryana, and Karnataka, and submit a comprehensive report. The report will also explain the challenges facing the use of cards for multiple services by the people.

CM Revanth Reddy asked the officials to select one urban area and a village in each assembly constituency and prepare an action plan for issuing the family digital card on a pilot project.

The CM emphasized that the family digital cards should help the people to avail of all the welfare scheme benefits including medical care, ration, and other state-sponsored programs. The health profile of each family member will be included in the family digital card which is useful to provide medical services to the family members in the future.

The Chief Minister ordered the officials to provide an option to update the details of the family members mainly by addition and deletion of names of the family from time to time in the card and also set up a special mechanism at the district level for system monitoring of the family digital cards.