Who is eligible for NFS Card?






Prabhat Prabhat
Answered on December 10,2019

As per guidelines issued under NFS Act 2013; eligibility criteria fixed for issue of NFS cards are as follows.

(a) Geography, Socially and Occupationally Vulnerable Groups

1. Residents of slums
2. Residents of resettlement colony of F, G & H categories.
3. Residents of notified abadies in rural villages
4. Shelterless
5. Transgenders
6. Households with disabled people (as defined in Persons with Disabilities Act 1995) subject to submission of prescribed medical certificate.
7. Single woman (including widows, unmarried and separated and deserted women), living in household as dependent or as head of household.
8. Children living without protection.
9. Occupationally vulnerable groups like Rag-pickers unskilled Occupationally vulnerable groups like Rag-pickers unskilled construction workers, porters, casual daily wage labour, casual domestic workers, cycle rickshaw drivers, unskilled workers in small household enterprises, unskilled workers in household industries. workers, cycle rickshaw drivers, unskilled workers in small household enterprises, unskilled workers in household industries.

(b) Other Households:
Other Households having annual income of less than Rs. 1 lakh per annum.


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