Tamil Nadu
Eligibility
Entitlements
Category
Antodaya Anna Yojana (AAY) card
Old Age Pension card
Freedom Fighter card
Rice card (Green)
Rice
4 kgs
Quantity
(kgs per household)
Free
Price
(₹ per kg)
Rice
4 kgs
Free
Rice
10 kgs
Free
Rice
4 kgs per adult and
2 kgs per child with a minimum of 12 kgsand maximum of 20 kgs
(10 kgs boiled rice + 10 kgs raw rice)
Free
Sugar only card (White)
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Application Form (Tamil)
Process
[Obtain acknowledgement slip at the counter or post for proof of submission]
Helpline
Call 044-28592828
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Minister (Co-operation, Food and Consumer Protection)
Secretary (Co-operation, Food and Consumer Protection)
Joint Commissioner (Civil Supplies and Consumer Protection Department)
District Supply Officers (Civil Supplies and Consumer Protection Department)
Members of Parliament - Lok Sabha | Rajya Sabha
Members of Legislative Assembly
Website
Tamil Nadu Civil Supplies and Consumer Protection Department (Government of Tamil Nadu)
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Complain
State Consumer Disputes Redressal Commission
District Consumer Disputes Redressal Forums
Monitor
Contact number of Flying Squad members
Monthly Allotment of each Fair Price Shop
Other Entitlements
Budget canteens open to all in 200 wards of Chennai and 9 other cities
News
2015
75 rice bags meant for PDS seized (The Hindu, 19 February 2015)
Scared residents want ration shop in their midst (The Hindu 9 February 2015)
Social audit of PDS shops (The Hindu 25 January 2015)
PDS rice seized, one held (The Hindu, 24 February 2015)
14 transgenders given ration cards (Times of India 24 Apr 2015)
Shortage of urad dal in PDS outlets in TN (NYOOOZ 16 Apr 2015)
PDS Grievance meeting in Tiruchirapally (The Hindu, 11 April 2015)
AIADMK man arrested for smuggling rice meant for PDS (The Times of India, 10 April 2015)
PDS Rice consignment detained (NewsHub.org, 23 February 2015)
2014
No ration card: demonstration held in Coimbatore (Hindu, 28 October 2014)
A Herculean task to get ration card (L Srikrishna, The Hindu, 29 September 2014)
Nod for project to computerize PDS (The Hindu, 21 September 2014)
Farmers market complex can house PDS outlets, say residents (The Hindu, 30 August 2014)
Man Held for Bid to Smuggle 7 Ton PDS Rice (The New Indian Express, 27 August 2014)
AIADMK MLA Threatens to Lock Up PDS Shops (The New Indian Express, 25 August 2014)
42 Quintal PDS Rice Seized (The New Indian Express, 12 August 2014)
Food Officials in Mysore Dist Fail to Check Rice Smuggling (The New Indian Express, 10 May 2014)
Neutralising impact of price rise? ( T Ramakrishnan, The Hindu, 12 April 2014)
AIADMK’s negligence leads to power crisis: Kanimozhi? (The Hindu, 10 April 2014)
Bench restrains Collector from constructing ration shop (The Hindu, 12 March 2014)
Food Security Scheme will be Replaced with UPDS: AIADMK (The Indian Express, 25 February 2014)
Low quality PDS rice distributed in Gandhigram, say villagers (The Times of India, 22 February 2014)
Free PDS rice smuggled out of Tamil Nadu, sold at profit (Vivek Narayanan, The Hindu,8 Feb 2014)
Several business unit yet to register under Food Security Act (The Hindu, 18 Jan 2014)
Oppose WTO agreement on trade: Safe Food Alliance (The Hindu, 5 January 2014)
2013
Tamil Nadu extends ration card’s validity (Deccan Chronicle 21 December 2013)
Violations at ration outlets: 31 shops booked till May 2013 (The Hindu, 25 November 2013)
Soon, chapatis to be on menu of Amma canteens in Chennai (The Hindu, 10 September 2013)
Universal PDS will continue: Jayalalithaa (S. Vijaykumar, The Hindu, 16 August 2013)
PDS will prevail in TN: Jayalalithaa (Business Standard, 16 August 2013)
Fixing of inner sheets for renewal of PDS cards from December 15 (Hindu, 30 November 2014)