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Of 42 'Hunger-Related' Deaths Since 2017, 25 'Linked to Aadhaar Issues'

-TheWire.in

To mark one year since the death of 11-year-old Santoshi Kumari in Jharkhand, activists have released a list of hunger-related deaths in India since 2015.

New Delhi:
A year after the ‘starvation’ death of an 11-year-old girl, Santoshi Kumari, in Jharkhand’s Simdega district, activists have compiled a list of 56 alleged hunger-related deaths since 2015 across the country, of which 42 were in 2017 and 2018.

Kumari’s death led to a spate of similar allegations coming to the fore, with several activists alleging that linking the public distribution system to Aadhaar had led to confusion and exclusions across states, leading to people like Kumari’s family not being able to access the ration owed to them. These allegation have continued and various state government have been pulled up for not being able to provide basic amenities to those who need them most.

The list has been compiled by Reetika Khera and Siraj Dutta, with contributions from Swati Narayan and the Right to Food Campaign in Odisha, Jharkhand and Delhi, based on media reports. According to them, a large majority of the deaths recorded in 2017 and 2018 are because of the Aadhaar system, which is ensuring that even some people who were able to access the public distribution before are no longer able to do so.

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