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Rice and wheat under Kerala's public distribution system in each district: quantity allotted, lifted and distributed (off-take) in tonnes and off-take as a percentage of allotment, as printed in the appendix 'District wise Food grain Distribution under PDS in Kerala' of the Kerala Economic Review, editions 2016, 2017 and 2019 to 2025 (source: Civil Supplies Department). Up to the 2017 edition the schemes are BPL (other than ANP and AAY) and APL; from 2019 they are the NFSA priority households (PHH, other than ANP and AAY) and tide-over allocation. From 2017 each edition prints the previous full fiscal year and the current year up to 31 August (is_partial_period = true). AAY and Annapoorna rice are in PRI-WEL-0006. Each row is one district (or the Kerala total), edition, fiscal year and measure. In 2024-25 ration shops distributed 605,675 t of PHH rice, 141,664 t of PHH wheat and 383,468 t of tide-over rice. Use it to compare PDS foodgrain flows and off-take efficiency across districts.
Kerala State Planning BoardBy district and state x yearly2016 to 20254,079 rows
Updated 23 Oct 2026
Rice for the poorest households under the public distribution system in each district of Kerala: quantity allotted, lifted and distributed (off-take) in tonnes and off-take as a percentage of allotment under Antyodaya Anna Yojana (AAY) and, up to the 2021 edition, the Annapoorna scheme (ANP), as printed in the appendix 'District-wise Distribution of food grains under AAY and ANP schemes' of the Kerala Economic Review, editions 2016, 2017 and 2019 to 2025 (source: Civil Supplies Department). Each edition from 2017 prints the previous full fiscal year and the current year up to 31 August (is_partial_period = true for the latter). Each row is one district (or the Kerala total), edition, fiscal year and measure. In 2024-25 Kerala distributed 206,584 t of AAY rice against an allotment of 206,119 t. Use it with PRI-WEL-0005 (other PDS schemes) to compare foodgrain support to the poorest households across districts.
Kerala State Planning BoardBy district and state x yearly2016 to 20251,440 rows
Updated 23 Oct 2026
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.
Kerala State Planning BoardBy district and state x adhoc/yearly2020 to 2025640 rows
Updated 23 Oct 2026
Ration cards in circulation (including temporary cards) in each district of Kerala in July 2014, with the persons on them (adults, non-adults and total), ration units, permits and the number of authorised ration dealers (ARDs, i.e. ration shops), as printed in Table 14.1 'Details of Ration Cards in Circulation July-14' of the Department of Economics and Statistics' Statistics for Planning 2014. Units count each adult as two and each non-adult as one (adults x 2 + non-adults equals the printed units in every row). Each row is one district (or the Kerala total) and one measure. Kerala had 8,313,278 ration cards covering 37,074,587 persons and 14,319 ration shops. It is the only district-wise count of ration shops before the e-PoS register (PRI-WEL-0001, from 2019); use it as the pre-NFSA baseline.
Department of Economics and Statistics, KeralaBy district and state x adhoc2014105 rows
Updated 23 Oct 2026
Number of ration cards in each district of Kerala by category, above poverty line (APL), below poverty line (BPL), Antyodaya (AAY) and Annapoorna, and in total, as on 29 January 2015, from Table 14.4 'Total Number of Cards and the breakup of APL, BPL, Andhyodaya and Annapoorna Cards' of the Department of Economics and Statistics' Statistics for Planning 2014. Each row is one district (or the Kerala total) and one category. Kerala had 8,260,619 cards: 6,207,717 APL, 1,476,841 BPL, 576,056 Antyodaya and 27,145 Annapoorna. Use it as the pre-NFSA baseline of ration card categories by district.
Department of Economics and Statistics, KeralaBy district and state x adhoc201475 rows
Updated 23 Oct 2026
Number of social welfare pensioners in each district of Kerala, men, women and total, as printed in Table 23.11 'Category wise Social Welfare Pensioners' of the Department of Economics and Statistics' Statistics for Planning 2014. Each row is one district (or the Kerala total) and one measure. Kerala had 2,567,685 social welfare pensioners, 1,864,920 of them women (73%). Use it as a 2014 baseline for welfare pension coverage by district; compare with the 2026 Sevana Pension rolls in PRI-WEL-0009.
Department of Economics and Statistics, KeralaBy district and state x adhoc201445 rows
Updated 23 Oct 2026
Number of authorised ration dealers (ARDs, i.e. ration shops) in each district of Kerala and how many of them were active or inactive, from the 'Active Inactive ARDs Abstract' page of the e-PoS portal of the Food, Civil Supplies and Consumer Affairs Department, as of 15 October 2026, 16:21. Each row is one district (or the Kerala total) and one measure. Of 13,925 ration shops, 12,395 were active and 1,530 inactive; the inactive share ranges from 2.5% in Wayanad (8 of 314) to 21.8% in Pathanamthitta (170 of 781). The total of 13,925 shops equals the e-PoS key register for September 2026 (PRI-WEL-0001). Use it to see how much of the ration shop network is in use by district.
Food, Civil Supplies and Consumer Affairs Department, Govt of KeralaBy district and state x adhoc202645 rows
Updated 23 Oct 2026
Number of active retail outlets of Supplyco, the Kerala State Civil Supplies Corporation that sells subsidised and other groceries, medicines and fuel, in each district of Kerala by outlet type (Maveli stores, Maveli super stores, supermarkets, hypermarkets, People's Bazaars, medical stores, petrol bunks, LPG outlets, mobile Maveli), with the total and the number of Supplyco depots serving them, counted from the public outlet directory on supplycokerala.com captured on 15 October 2026. Each row is one district (or Kerala) with one column per outlet type. Kerala had 1,651 outlets, mostly Maveli stores (868) and supermarkets (595), under 61 depots. Supplyco publishes no district-wise outlet counts elsewhere. Use it to compare access to Supplyco outlets across districts, e.g. per population.
Kerala State Civil Supplies Corporation (Supplyco)By district and state x adhoc202615 rows
Updated 23 Oct 2026
Number of social security pensioners on the rolls in each district of Kerala by scheme, as shown in the district table of the Sevana Pension mustering dashboard of the Local Self Government Department, last updated 15 October 2026, 4:00 PM: agricultural labour pension, old age pension (IGNOAPS), disability pension (IGNDPS), pension for unmarried women and widow pension (IGNWPS), and the total. Pensions paid through welfare fund boards are not in this table. Each row is one district (or the Kerala total) and one scheme. Kerala had 5,215,551 social security pensioners, of whom 3,088,070 drew old age and 1,356,892 widow pensions. Use it to compare pension coverage across districts, e.g. per population aged 60 and over.
Local Self Government Department, Govt of Kerala (Sevana Pension)By district and state x adhoc202690 rows
Updated 23 Oct 2026
District-wise key register of Kerala's public distribution system from the e-PoS portal of the Food, Civil Supplies and Consumer Affairs Department: the number of authorised ration dealers (ARDs, i.e. ration shops; online/automated, unautomated and total), ration cards and units (members on the cards), cards in electrified and non-electrified households, and cards and units by category: AAY (Antyodaya Anna Yojana) and PHH (priority households) under the National Food Security Act, and the non-NFSA categories NPS (non-priority subsidy), NPNS (non-priority non-subsidy) and NPI (non-priority institutional). Captured for January and July of 2019 to 2026 and for September 2026. Each row is one district (or the Kerala total), month and measure. In September 2026 Kerala had 13,925 ration shops and 9,594,988 ration cards with 35,010,903 members, 4,428,699 of the cards in the NFSA categories (AAY and PHH). Use it to track ration card coverage and composition by district over time.
Food, Civil Supplies and Consumer Affairs Department, Govt of KeralaBy district and state x monthly2019-01 to 2026-094,335 rows
Updated 23 Oct 2026
