CV News\/ Saturday, March 09, 2019
\nDays are not far off when Gujarat\u2019s business capital Ahmedabad would be added to the list of places, led by Jharkhand\u2019s rural areas, where failure of aadhaar-based biometric authentication led to 25 of 45 starvation deaths across India since 2017.
\nAhmedabad-based NGO Human Development and Research Centre (HDRC) survey has revealed that Kesarben Ramabhai Thakore, 85, a poor women living in Sheherkotda slum area of Ahmedabad, is unable to get her ration from the public distribution system (PDS) because her fingers fail in biometric authentication.
\nAn HDRC note claims, Kesarben, a single woman, \u201coften goes to bed hungry if she is unable any food, for which she must go out begging daily\u201d, adding, there were in all 1,795 families (24%) out of 7,512 surveyed who do not get ration because of \u201ctechnical glitches\u201d, which include fingerprint validation.
\nAn HDRC media interaction with tens of slumdwellers revealed that a majority of them did not know that the biometric authentication is not compulsory for getting ration under the National Food Security Act, 2013, which aims to provide subsidized foodgrains to approximately two thirds of India’s 1.2 billion people \u2013 both above and below poverty line.
\nThe survey reveals that of the 7,512 families surveyed, 5,116 families had above poverty line (APL) ration cards and are refused ration. Then, there were 142 families which complained that Rs 5 to Rs 10 were charged from them for biometric authentication, even if they are not given ration.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
CV News\/ Saturday, March 09, 2019 Days are not far off when Gujarat\u2019s business capital Ahmedabad would be added to the list of places, led by Jharkhand\u2019s rural areas, where failure of aadhaar-based biometric authentication led to 25 of 45 starvation deaths across India since 2017. Ahmedabad-based NGO Human Development and Research Centre (HDRC) survey […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","spay_email":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/paUKPQ-2A0","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/allgujaratnews.in\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9920"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/allgujaratnews.in\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/allgujaratnews.in\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/allgujaratnews.in\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/allgujaratnews.in\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9920"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/allgujaratnews.in\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9920\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9921,"href":"https:\/\/allgujaratnews.in\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9920\/revisions\/9921"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/allgujaratnews.in\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9920"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/allgujaratnews.in\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9920"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/allgujaratnews.in\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9920"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}