New Delhi: The Supreme Court (SC) yesterday directed States and Union Territories to implement the ‘one nation, one ration card’ scheme by July 31, while asking the Centre to provide dry ration for free distribution among migrant workers till the pandemic continues.
Maintaining that right to food was included in right to life under Article 21 of the Constitution, a Bench led by Justice Ashok Bhushan said Governments were duty-bound to provide food security to migrant workers exposed to financial and other hardships amid COVID.
