Apply In-Person

1. Ration Card holder shall approach their respective ration office Or the Clerk at District Supply Office (DSO) for urban area and Gram Panchayat Officer (GPO) in the rural areas as applicable to change address in the ration card.
2. Link for contact : link AND link2
   
   

Procedure for Local transfer

1. Applicant must be from the same Urban Local Body or Gram Panchayat.
2. Applicant submits the application to DSO/GPO.
3. SI/GPO checks and verifies the details in the master register and updates the FPS for the applicant in the register.
4. Clerk/GPO makes a new ration card and issues to the applicant.

Procedure for transfer between Gram Panchayats/Urban Local Bodies

1. A citizen has to surrender his ration card to the DSO of his area for acquiring a surrender certificate.
2. After getting the surrender certificate from DSO, one has to submit the surrender certificate to DSO of his new are. In case of rural, applicant gets it done through GPO.

Procedure for getting Surrender Certificate

For Urban area

1. Applicant submits the Application form along with ration card to clerk.
2. Clerk checks the application form & required supporting documents and gives an acknowledgement receipt to the applicant.
3. SI complete entries in master Register & Shop Register.
4. SI Sends information to the concerned local Fair Price shop.
5. Surrender Certificate issued to the Applicant.

For Rural Area

1. Applicant submits the Application form along with ration card to GPO.
2. GPO checks the application form & required supporting documents and gives an acknowledgement receipt to the applicant.
3. GPO complete entries in master Register & Shop Register.
4. GPO sends information to the concerned local Fair Price shop.
5. Surrender Certificate issued to the Applicant.

• Application form.
• Original ration card
• Photo Identity / Election Identity Card / PAN / Driving license / Passport
• Proof of residence
• Aadhaar Card
• Self declaration (as applicable)

Department of Food and Civil Supply,
Government Of Uttarakhand
Chief Secretary Building
Uttarakhand Secretariat
4, Subhash Road, Dehradun - 248001
Telephone  : 0135-2712802
Fax  : 0135-2712096
Email  : secy-fcs-ua@nic.in
More details about the office location is provided in the following link : Address Details and link2

• A valid ration card holder.
• The applicant and his/her family must be Indian citizens and should be resident of the state.
• The applicant or his family members must not possess any family card in any State in India (If they had one, it has to be withdrawn).
• The applicant and members of the family must be close relatives.
• New born above 5 years
• Addition of member name after marriage

• Fees: 5 Rs.
• further information can be obtained directly from the department office while applying.

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

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If your application is fair and complete, the processing time will be 2 – 3 week’s 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..

• Applicant details.
• additional members or persons name to be removed
• Date of Birth and age.
• Address details.
• Occupation and designation of office held any
• 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. Addition of members should be made in order to avail the government benefits. 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.

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More information which might help people.