Bihar guide

Bihar ration card: status, list, apply, download

बिहार राशन कार्ड स्टेटस, लिस्ट और नाम कैसे जोड़ें

Last reviewed: 11 November 2026

The government addresses are the ones in the box above. Anything ending in biharportal.com is not the Food and Consumer Protection Department.

On 11 November 2026 the NFSA Bihar profile showed about 1.79 crore ration cards, of which about 22.93 lakh were AAY and about 1.56 crore were the priority-household count printed next to them. Those figures move. Re-read the profile rather than quoting this sentence later.

Check ration card status

1. Keep the acknowledgement from the application.
2. Open rconline.bihar.gov.in.
3. If it is down, open epds.bihar.gov.in, which responded, or sfc.bihar.gov.in from the NFSA profile.
4. Enter the reference number on that site. The national Smart PDS tracker is an extra government page, not a reason to trust a private Bihar form.
5. Read the general status guide if you are mixing up a new application with an old card.

Check your name in the list

Start at epds.bihar.gov.in or the NFSA Bihar profile and use the list or search shown there. Spellings differ, so try the head of household’s name as it was entered, in Hindi or in English. Do not trust a report link copied from a video.

Apply online

There is no Bihar form on this site. Use the government apply host. Documents are whatever that form marks mandatory. The national notes are on documents and eligibility and how to apply. Save the acknowledgement the Bihar site gives you. The helpdesk on the NFSA profile is 18003456194.

Download the e-ration card

After approval, download from the same Bihar host. Steps that apply in every state, including UMANG and the NIC app, are in the download guide. Do not pay a site called “Bihar e ration card print” unless the address is .gov.in.

e-KYC

Do biometric or OTP e-KYC on the Bihar ePoS or the channel the department names. epos.bihar.gov.in responded on the review day. The national explanation is the e-KYC page. We never take Aadhaar.

Naam kaise jode, and how to remove a name

Addition and deletion are modification requests on the official host. “बिहार राशन कार्ड में नाम कैसे जोड़ें” is this section. A PHH quantity can change with the member. The AAY 35 kg does not. After the state accepts the name, e-KYC for that person is often still required. Removing a name, or checking why a name vanished, is the remove-member guide.