The Food Security Card is also known as Ration Card provides to the middle-class income group and economically backward group to get the ration at subsidy rates. Food Security Card The purchase of pulses and other essential commodities of the kitchen may provide at very low cost in the Ration Shops placed by Government at a subsidy rate. It is also proof of the identification of an individual and their family in India. Every Government application or any address proof will ask for a Ration Card as an option to prove your identity. The motive of this card is to provide support to economically backward class people, by which they can have their livelihood without much difficulty.