• If anyone shifts from one place to another place in view of transfer, Marriage, resettlement etc. they need to apply for a new ration card in their new place of residence
  

Apply In-Person

1. As a first step obtain Surrender Certificate from the concerned ration office of the place from where the person was residing previously.
2. In order to transfer ration card, please apply with ration office of your new area where the applicant resides now.
3. Link for contact : Link Please complete the page prompt for respective ration shop address.
4. Please go to the respective office.
5. Applicant shall obtain the form from the respective office (please pay for the form if required) Or a written/electronically typed application on A4 plain sheet as advised shall be used or use the following link to download the form form link
6. Please submit the completed application form along with required documents to the respective authority.
7. On accepting your application, authority or clerk will check the details and issue a receipt as acknowledgement.
8. Please keep it safe for future reference,
9. This submitted application will be processed by the department, After ground level verification and physical inspection by the Supply Officer applicant gets notification.
10. If all the process are successful, applicant will get the ration card as per delivery mode (delivered through postal or on hand)

Note: User gets update on the phone as SMS

Apply through Meeseva

1. Please go to the meeseva centre. Link for contact link : Link for contact
2. Link for form :Form Link
3. Fill all the necessary information in the application as required and sign at appropriate place
4. Do not fill any wrong information, otherwise the officer of department or Meeseva officer will reject your application form
5. Attach all documents, and submit the application form with prescribed fee to the Meeseva operator.
6. Meeseva operator will process your application and upload them to issue you an transaction id and application number. Please keep them safely. This will be helpful in knowing the status of your application.
7. This application form will be processed by the respective department.
8. Applicant will receive notification from the department. Please follow the guidelines to ibtain the ration card.

1. Application form.
2. Surrender certificate
3. Latest Electricity Bill
4. Residence Proof (Example – Electricity Bill, LPG gas bill, Water Bill, Aadhaar Card, Passport),
5. Aadhaar Card
6. Passport Size Photographs
7. details of migratedF.P.Shop

Department of Consumer Affairs,
Food & Civil Supplies,
Government of Andhra Pradesh.
Ph: 040-23494808 / 822
Email :pds-ap@nic.in
Contact link : link

The Director, ESD (MeeSeva),
D.No:48-9-2/1, Vishnu Nagar, Gunadala,
Vijayawada-520004, Andhra Pradesh-India,
Land Line : 0866-2452771/2772,
Fax No: 08662452765
Email ID: meeseva@ap.gov.in
Help Line No: 18004254440 & 1100
Link for Meesevecentres : Meeseva center link

• A valid ration card holder.

• Fee information can be obtained directly from the respective office while applying.

• Usually Family identity card is valid for lifetime and will be renewed in 5 years or based on announcement.

Please attach documents that can be used by people. e.g. links

Please attach sample completed documents which would help other people who would like to follow this procedure.    

• If your application is fair and complete, the processing time will be 2 – 3 weeks’ time

Videos explaining the procedure or to fill the applications.
Attach videos using the following tag <&video type="website">video ID|width|height<&/video&> from external websites.
Please remove the "&" inside the tags during implementation.
Website = allocine, blip, dailymotion, facebook, gametrailers, googlevideo, html5, metacafe, myspace, revver, 
sevenload, viddler, vimeo, youku, youtube
width = 560, height = 340, Video ID = Can be obtained from the URL of webpage where the video is displayed.
e.g In the following url "http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y0US7oR_t3M" Video ID is "Y0US7oR_t3M". 

Please provide other instructions related to the certificate/documents.
e.g. The state office holds birth records since january 1908.

• Following are the required information to apply.
  

1. Applicant details.
2. Address details.
3. Signature/thumb impression.

• For implementation of the Targeted Public Distribution System(TPDS), Ration Card is being issued to all the heads of families, with details about family members included in the card. Based on their economic condition, people can buy goods like food grains, sugar and kerosene with the help of their ration cards.
• Ration card is a mandatory document for all individuals in India. It has to be renewed before it gets expired.
• Ration card is essential to apply for passport, PAN card or a domicile certificate or to even get the name registered for electoral rolls to get a Voter ID.

• The eligible sections of the society are provided with food grains and other items at highly subsidized rates.
• In different state the Ration card is categorized as per classification fixed by government.

Please explain what are other uses of obtaining this document/certificate.
e.g. Birth Certificate can be used as proof of identity.

Place some external links which might help.

More information which might help people.