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How Aadhaar authentication is helping dealers siphon off food rations in Jharkhand -Siraj Dutta

-Scroll.in A welfare scheme is not the space for technological experiments. In a state with poor nutrition, the government should act against corruption and exclusion. Ration dealers were siphoning off more than half of the grain entitlement of ration cardholders. That is what residents of several villages in Jharkhand’s West Singhbhum district noted at a recent public hearing on the functioning of the public distribution system in the area. The statements of participants in the hearing showed how beneficiaries are being denied rations by the combination of Aadhaar-based biometric authentication and the reconciliation of stocks based on online records. The corruption is being aided by the fact that ration dealers easily manipulate the online records. Under the National Food Security Act, every ration cardholder of “priority households” is entitled to 5 kg of grain per month. Those in the Antyodaya category – the poorest category – have a monthly entitlement of 35 kg per card at subsidised prices. In 2020, the Centre launched the Pradhan Mantri Gareeb Kalyan Anna Yojana under which all ration cardholders are entitled to an additional 5 kg grain per person every month for free. When the cardholders undergo Aadhaar-based biometric authentication, the dealers register the full amount of grain on the point of sale machine but give them only a part of their total entitlement. This is commonly known as quantity fraud. During the hearing on June 13, organised by the Khadya Suraksha Jan Adhikar Manch, a district-level civil society network working on welfare entitlements, cardholders from Kainuwa village said that they were yet to get rations for September and December even after completing the biometric authentication for these two months. Please click here to read more.