Dataset · Welfare
Free food kits distributed through ration shops in each district of Kerala, by ration card category (AAY, PHH, NPNS, NPS; from 2023 AAY, Scheduled Tribe and general beneficiaries), from the food kit appendices of the Kerala Economic Review, editions 2020 to 2025 (source: Civil Supplies Department). The tables cover different programmes, told apart by the kit column: the one-time Athijeevana (Covid-19) kit of April 2020, given to 8,448,016 ration cards; the Onam food kits of 2020 to 2025; and the cumulative food kit distribution of 2020-21 and 2021-22 (to September 2021 in the 2021 edition). Each row is one district (or the Kerala total), kit, reference period and card category; the appendix of each table is listed under Source documents. The Onam kit went to all card categories up to 2022 (8,569,583 kits in 2022) and to AAY households and some other groups from 2023 (579,418 AAY kits in 2025). Use it to compare the reach of food relief across districts and card types; select one kit and reference period at a time.
The first 5 of 640 rows
| period | period_type | geo_level | geo_code | geo_name | indicator | measure | region | ref_period | ref_period_type | is_partial_period | value | unit | qa_flag | notes | district_as_per_source | kit |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2020 | year | state | 32 | Kerala | food_kit_beneficiaries_by_card_type | aay | State | 2020-04 | month | False | 586433.0 | ration cards | period from ER 2020 Vol 1 p105 text (kit given to all ration cards in April 2020) | Total | athijeevana | |
| 2020 | year | state | 32 | Kerala | food_kit_beneficiaries_by_card_type | npns | State | 2020-04 | month | False | 2303356.0 | ration cards | period from ER 2020 Vol 1 p105 text (kit given to all ration cards in April 2020) | Total | athijeevana | |
| 2020 | year | state | 32 | Kerala | food_kit_beneficiaries_by_card_type | nps | State | 2020-04 | month | False | 2428912.0 | ration cards | period from ER 2020 Vol 1 p105 text (kit given to all ration cards in April 2020) | Total | athijeevana | |
| 2020 | year | state | 32 | Kerala | food_kit_beneficiaries_by_card_type | phh | State | 2020-04 | month | False | 3129315.0 | ration cards | period from ER 2020 Vol 1 p105 text (kit given to all ration cards in April 2020) | Total | athijeevana | |
| 2020 | year | state | 32 | Kerala | food_kit_beneficiaries_by_card_type | total | State | 2020-04 | month | False | 8448016.0 | ration cards | period from ER 2020 Vol 1 p105 text (kit given to all ration cards in April 2020) | Total | athijeevana |
17 columns, in file order.
periodperiod_typegeo_levelgeo_codegeo_nameindicatormeasureregionref_periodref_period_typeis_partial_periodvalueunitqa_flagnotesdistrict_as_per_sourcekitPlease cite this dataset when you use it:
Policy and Research Initiative (2026). District-wise free food kits distributed by ration card type in Kerala, 2020-2025 [Dataset]. PRI Data Repository. /data/food-kit-beneficiaries-by-card-type-kerala