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&lt;em&gt;For those whose fingerprints don&#039;t match, life becomes &#039;imPoS-able&#039;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
New Delhi: &lt;/em&gt;In certain circles of Jharkhand, a newly-minted term has become the source of heartburn and more &amp;mdash; PoS-able. It refers to whether or not one&amp;rsquo;s fingerprints match on the PoS (point of sale) biometric readers in ration shops. Those whose fingerprints match, access their allotted ration. For those whose fingerprints don&amp;rsquo;t match, life becomes &amp;lsquo;imPoS-able&amp;rsquo;. &lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
According to an ongoing study by Ranchi University and IIT Delhi, led by economists Jean Dreze and Reetika Khera, while 85 per cent of Jharkhand&amp;rsquo;s beneficiaries report receiving their rations (either because they or a family member is lucky enough to be PoS-able), 15 per cent of the state&amp;rsquo;s poorest have been excluded from the state&amp;rsquo;s public distribution system, even though they hold valid ration cards. &lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
Here are some cases in point. In Rajabar village, Sarita Devi&amp;rsquo;s household has been unable to transact grains since their son, the only PoS-able member of the family, migrated to Delhi. He&amp;rsquo;s also the only phone owner, so she can&amp;rsquo;t access the OTP (one-time password) needed for a manual override. Not far away in Simdega, Lusiya Kullu and her husband&amp;rsquo;s Aadhaar numbers haven&amp;rsquo;t been seeded with their ration cards. In spite of their having submitted photocopies of their Aadhaar cards to the dealer several times, they haven&amp;rsquo;t received their ration entitlement since March. Ashit Kumar Nag, a hawker from Raghunathpur, has to forego a day&amp;rsquo;s wage to collect his ration as the shop is far from his home. Ever since the introduction of biometric identification, he&amp;rsquo;s often had to make three trips to collect one month&amp;rsquo;s rations due to connectivity issues.&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;em&gt;Findings do not paint a rosy picture&lt;br /&gt;
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More disturbingly, the study indicates that the introduction of ABBA hasn&amp;rsquo;t addressed the basic problem with the mechanism of ration disbursal &amp;mdash; Katauti, or cut. &amp;ldquo;Households report that the &amp;lsquo;cuts&amp;rsquo; extracted (in kind) by PDS dealers have remained more or less the same. The shopkeeper gives the beneficiary less ration than what s/he is entitled to, and sells the rest in the open market,&amp;rdquo; Khera explains. &amp;ldquo;This is continuing in spite of ABBA.&amp;rdquo; &lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;em&gt;For those whose fingerprints don&#039;t match, life becomes &#039;imPoS-able&#039;&lt;br /&gt;
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New Delhi: &lt;/em&gt;In certain circles of Jharkhand, a newly-minted term has become the source of heartburn and more &amp;mdash; PoS-able. It refers to whether or not one&amp;rsquo;s fingerprints match on the PoS (point of sale) biometric readers in ration shops. Those whose fingerprints match, access their allotted ration. For those whose fingerprints don&amp;rsquo;t match, life becomes &amp;lsquo;imPoS-able&amp;rsquo;. &lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
According to an ongoing study by Ranchi University and IIT Delhi, led by economists Jean Dreze and Reetika Khera, while 85 per cent of Jharkhand&amp;rsquo;s beneficiaries report receiving their rations (either because they or a family member is lucky enough to be PoS-able), 15 per cent of the state&amp;rsquo;s poorest have been excluded from the state&amp;rsquo;s public distribution system, even though they hold valid ration cards. &lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
Here are some cases in point. In Rajabar village, Sarita Devi&amp;rsquo;s household has been unable to transact grains since their son, the only PoS-able member of the family, migrated to Delhi. He&amp;rsquo;s also the only phone owner, so she can&amp;rsquo;t access the OTP (one-time password) needed for a manual override. Not far away in Simdega, Lusiya Kullu and her husband&amp;rsquo;s Aadhaar numbers haven&amp;rsquo;t been seeded with their ration cards. In spite of their having submitted photocopies of their Aadhaar cards to the dealer several times, they haven&amp;rsquo;t received their ration entitlement since March. Ashit Kumar Nag, a hawker from Raghunathpur, has to forego a day&amp;rsquo;s wage to collect his ration as the shop is far from his home. Ever since the introduction of biometric identification, he&amp;rsquo;s often had to make three trips to collect one month&amp;rsquo;s rations due to connectivity issues.&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;em&gt;Findings do not paint a rosy picture&lt;br /&gt;
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Dreze and Khera&amp;rsquo;s study, which covers about 900 randomly selected households in 32 villages in eight districts of Jharkhand, is finding (the final results are being compiled) that despite the introduction of Aadhaar-Based Biometric Authentication (ABBA), the disbursal of foodgrain under the public distribution system (PDS) is neither easy, nor efficient. &amp;ldquo;Households have reported increased transaction costs,&amp;rdquo; says Khera. &amp;ldquo;The queues are longer, more trips to the ration shop are needed to get each month&amp;rsquo;s entitlement and many say they need to pull their children out of school to get household rations.&amp;rdquo; The researchers also photographed, in some cases, the foodgrain disbursed, which was of very poor quality. While Khera points out that this isn&amp;rsquo;t the norm, the fact is that ABBA only checks the bona fides of the beneficiaries, and is toothless when it comes to enforcing quality standards on the PDS. &lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;em&gt;For those whose fingerprints don&#039;t match, life becomes &#039;imPoS-able&#039;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
New Delhi: &lt;/em&gt;In certain circles of Jharkhand, a newly-minted term has become the source of heartburn and more &amp;mdash; PoS-able. It refers to whether or not one&amp;rsquo;s fingerprints match on the PoS (point of sale) biometric readers in ration shops. Those whose fingerprints match, access their allotted ration. For those whose fingerprints don&amp;rsquo;t match, life becomes &amp;lsquo;imPoS-able&amp;rsquo;. &lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
According to an ongoing study by Ranchi University and IIT Delhi, led by economists Jean Dreze and Reetika Khera, while 85 per cent of Jharkhand&amp;rsquo;s beneficiaries report receiving their rations (either because they or a family member is lucky enough to be PoS-able), 15 per cent of the state&amp;rsquo;s poorest have been excluded from the state&amp;rsquo;s public distribution system, even though they hold valid ration cards. &lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
Here are some cases in point. In Rajabar village, Sarita Devi&amp;rsquo;s household has been unable to transact grains since their son, the only PoS-able member of the family, migrated to Delhi. He&amp;rsquo;s also the only phone owner, so she can&amp;rsquo;t access the OTP (one-time password) needed for a manual override. Not far away in Simdega, Lusiya Kullu and her husband&amp;rsquo;s Aadhaar numbers haven&amp;rsquo;t been seeded with their ration cards. In spite of their having submitted photocopies of their Aadhaar cards to the dealer several times, they haven&amp;rsquo;t received their ration entitlement since March. Ashit Kumar Nag, a hawker from Raghunathpur, has to forego a day&amp;rsquo;s wage to collect his ration as the shop is far from his home. Ever since the introduction of biometric identification, he&amp;rsquo;s often had to make three trips to collect one month&amp;rsquo;s rations due to connectivity issues.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;em&gt;Findings do not paint a rosy picture&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
Dreze and Khera&amp;rsquo;s study, which covers about 900 randomly selected households in 32 villages in eight districts of Jharkhand, is finding (the final results are being compiled) that despite the introduction of Aadhaar-Based Biometric Authentication (ABBA), the disbursal of foodgrain under the public distribution system (PDS) is neither easy, nor efficient. &amp;ldquo;Households have reported increased transaction costs,&amp;rdquo; says Khera. &amp;ldquo;The queues are longer, more trips to the ration shop are needed to get each month&amp;rsquo;s entitlement and many say they need to pull their children out of school to get household rations.&amp;rdquo; The researchers also photographed, in some cases, the foodgrain disbursed, which was of very poor quality. While Khera points out that this isn&amp;rsquo;t the norm, the fact is that ABBA only checks the bona fides of the beneficiaries, and is toothless when it comes to enforcing quality standards on the PDS. &lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
More disturbingly, the study indicates that the introduction of ABBA hasn&amp;rsquo;t addressed the basic problem with the mechanism of ration disbursal &amp;mdash; Katauti, or cut. &amp;ldquo;Households report that the &amp;lsquo;cuts&amp;rsquo; extracted (in kind) by PDS dealers have remained more or less the same. The shopkeeper gives the beneficiary less ration than what s/he is entitled to, and sells the rest in the open market,&amp;rdquo; Khera explains. &amp;ldquo;This is continuing in spite of ABBA.&amp;rdquo; &lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
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-Business Standard&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;em&gt;For those whose fingerprints don&#039;t match, life becomes &#039;imPoS-able&#039;&lt;br /&gt;
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New Delhi: &lt;/em&gt;In certain circles of Jharkhand, a newly-minted term has become the source of heartburn and more &amp;mdash; PoS-able. It refers to whether or not one&amp;rsquo;s fingerprints match on the PoS (point of sale) biometric readers in ration shops. Those whose fingerprints match, access their allotted ration. For those whose fingerprints don&amp;rsquo;t match, life becomes &amp;lsquo;imPoS-able&amp;rsquo;. &lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
According to an ongoing study by Ranchi University and IIT Delhi, led by economists Jean Dreze and Reetika Khera, while 85 per cent of Jharkhand&amp;rsquo;s beneficiaries report receiving their rations (either because they or a family member is lucky enough to be PoS-able), 15 per cent of the state&amp;rsquo;s poorest have been excluded from the state&amp;rsquo;s public distribution system, even though they hold valid ration cards. &lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
Here are some cases in point. In Rajabar village, Sarita Devi&amp;rsquo;s household has been unable to transact grains since their son, the only PoS-able member of the family, migrated to Delhi. He&amp;rsquo;s also the only phone owner, so she can&amp;rsquo;t access the OTP (one-time password) needed for a manual override. Not far away in Simdega, Lusiya Kullu and her husband&amp;rsquo;s Aadhaar numbers haven&amp;rsquo;t been seeded with their ration cards. In spite of their having submitted photocopies of their Aadhaar cards to the dealer several times, they haven&amp;rsquo;t received their ration entitlement since March. Ashit Kumar Nag, a hawker from Raghunathpur, has to forego a day&amp;rsquo;s wage to collect his ration as the shop is far from his home. Ever since the introduction of biometric identification, he&amp;rsquo;s often had to make three trips to collect one month&amp;rsquo;s rations due to connectivity issues.&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;em&gt;Findings do not paint a rosy picture&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
Dreze and Khera&amp;rsquo;s study, which covers about 900 randomly selected households in 32 villages in eight districts of Jharkhand, is finding (the final results are being compiled) that despite the introduction of Aadhaar-Based Biometric Authentication (ABBA), the disbursal of foodgrain under the public distribution system (PDS) is neither easy, nor efficient. &amp;ldquo;Households have reported increased transaction costs,&amp;rdquo; says Khera. &amp;ldquo;The queues are longer, more trips to the ration shop are needed to get each month&amp;rsquo;s entitlement and many say they need to pull their children out of school to get household rations.&amp;rdquo; The researchers also photographed, in some cases, the foodgrain disbursed, which was of very poor quality. While Khera points out that this isn&amp;rsquo;t the norm, the fact is that ABBA only checks the bona fides of the beneficiaries, and is toothless when it comes to enforcing quality standards on the PDS. &lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
More disturbingly, the study indicates that the introduction of ABBA hasn&amp;rsquo;t addressed the basic problem with the mechanism of ration disbursal &amp;mdash; Katauti, or cut. &amp;ldquo;Households report that the &amp;lsquo;cuts&amp;rsquo; extracted (in kind) by PDS dealers have remained more or less the same. The shopkeeper gives the beneficiary less ration than what s/he is entitled to, and sells the rest in the open market,&amp;rdquo; Khera explains. &amp;ldquo;This is continuing in spite of ABBA.&amp;rdquo; &lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
Please &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.business-standard.com/article/economy-policy/pds-focus-should-be-on-people-not-fingerprints-117082500068_1.html&quot;&gt;click here&lt;/a&gt; to read more. &lt;br /&gt;
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For those whose fingerprints don&#039;t match, life becomes &#039;imPoS-able&#039;

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&lt;em&gt;For those whose fingerprints don&#039;t match, life becomes &#039;imPoS-able&#039;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
New Delhi: &lt;/em&gt;In certain circles of Jharkhand, a newly-minted term has become the source of heartburn and more &amp;mdash; PoS-able. It refers to whether or not one&amp;rsquo;s fingerprints match on the PoS (point of sale) biometric readers in ration shops. Those whose fingerprints match, access their allotted ration. For those whose fingerprints don&amp;rsquo;t match, life becomes &amp;lsquo;imPoS-able&amp;rsquo;. &lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
According to an ongoing study by Ranchi University and IIT Delhi, led by economists Jean Dreze and Reetika Khera, while 85 per cent of Jharkhand&amp;rsquo;s beneficiaries report receiving their rations (either because they or a family member is lucky enough to be PoS-able), 15 per cent of the state&amp;rsquo;s poorest have been excluded from the state&amp;rsquo;s public distribution system, even though they hold valid ration cards. &lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
Here are some cases in point. In Rajabar village, Sarita Devi&amp;rsquo;s household has been unable to transact grains since their son, the only PoS-able member of the family, migrated to Delhi. He&amp;rsquo;s also the only phone owner, so she can&amp;rsquo;t access the OTP (one-time password) needed for a manual override. Not far away in Simdega, Lusiya Kullu and her husband&amp;rsquo;s Aadhaar numbers haven&amp;rsquo;t been seeded with their ration cards. In spite of their having submitted photocopies of their Aadhaar cards to the dealer several times, they haven&amp;rsquo;t received their ration entitlement since March. Ashit Kumar Nag, a hawker from Raghunathpur, has to forego a day&amp;rsquo;s wage to collect his ration as the shop is far from his home. Ever since the introduction of biometric identification, he&amp;rsquo;s often had to make three trips to collect one month&amp;rsquo;s rations due to connectivity issues.&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;em&gt;Findings do not paint a rosy picture&lt;br /&gt;
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Dreze and Khera&amp;rsquo;s study, which covers about 900 randomly selected households in 32 villages in eight districts of Jharkhand, is finding (the final results are being compiled) that despite the introduction of Aadhaar-Based Biometric Authentication (ABBA), the disbursal of foodgrain under the public distribution system (PDS) is neither easy, nor efficient. &amp;ldquo;Households have reported increased transaction costs,&amp;rdquo; says Khera. &amp;ldquo;The queues are longer, more trips to the ration shop are needed to get each month&amp;rsquo;s entitlement and many say they need to pull their children out of school to get household rations.&amp;rdquo; The researchers also photographed, in some cases, the foodgrain disbursed, which was of very poor quality. While Khera points out that this isn&amp;rsquo;t the norm, the fact is that ABBA only checks the bona fides of the beneficiaries, and is toothless when it comes to enforcing quality standards on the PDS. &lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
More disturbingly, the study indicates that the introduction of ABBA hasn&amp;rsquo;t addressed the basic problem with the mechanism of ration disbursal &amp;mdash; Katauti, or cut. &amp;ldquo;Households report that the &amp;lsquo;cuts&amp;rsquo; extracted (in kind) by PDS dealers have remained more or less the same. The shopkeeper gives the beneficiary less ration than what s/he is entitled to, and sells the rest in the open market,&amp;rdquo; Khera explains. &amp;ldquo;This is continuing in spite of ABBA.&amp;rdquo; &lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;em&gt;For those whose fingerprints don&#039;t match, life becomes &#039;imPoS-able&#039;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
New Delhi: &lt;/em&gt;In certain circles of Jharkhand, a newly-minted term has become the source of heartburn and more &amp;mdash; PoS-able. It refers to whether or not one&amp;rsquo;s fingerprints match on the PoS (point of sale) biometric readers in ration shops. Those whose fingerprints match, access their allotted ration. For those whose fingerprints don&amp;rsquo;t match, life becomes &amp;lsquo;imPoS-able&amp;rsquo;. &lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
According to an ongoing study by Ranchi University and IIT Delhi, led by economists Jean Dreze and Reetika Khera, while 85 per cent of Jharkhand&amp;rsquo;s beneficiaries report receiving their rations (either because they or a family member is lucky enough to be PoS-able), 15 per cent of the state&amp;rsquo;s poorest have been excluded from the state&amp;rsquo;s public distribution system, even though they hold valid ration cards. &lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
Here are some cases in point. In Rajabar village, Sarita Devi&amp;rsquo;s household has been unable to transact grains since their son, the only PoS-able member of the family, migrated to Delhi. He&amp;rsquo;s also the only phone owner, so she can&amp;rsquo;t access the OTP (one-time password) needed for a manual override. Not far away in Simdega, Lusiya Kullu and her husband&amp;rsquo;s Aadhaar numbers haven&amp;rsquo;t been seeded with their ration cards. In spite of their having submitted photocopies of their Aadhaar cards to the dealer several times, they haven&amp;rsquo;t received their ration entitlement since March. Ashit Kumar Nag, a hawker from Raghunathpur, has to forego a day&amp;rsquo;s wage to collect his ration as the shop is far from his home. Ever since the introduction of biometric identification, he&amp;rsquo;s often had to make three trips to collect one month&amp;rsquo;s rations due to connectivity issues.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;em&gt;Findings do not paint a rosy picture&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
Dreze and Khera&amp;rsquo;s study, which covers about 900 randomly selected households in 32 villages in eight districts of Jharkhand, is finding (the final results are being compiled) that despite the introduction of Aadhaar-Based Biometric Authentication (ABBA), the disbursal of foodgrain under the public distribution system (PDS) is neither easy, nor efficient. &amp;ldquo;Households have reported increased transaction costs,&amp;rdquo; says Khera. &amp;ldquo;The queues are longer, more trips to the ration shop are needed to get each month&amp;rsquo;s entitlement and many say they need to pull their children out of school to get household rations.&amp;rdquo; The researchers also photographed, in some cases, the foodgrain disbursed, which was of very poor quality. While Khera points out that this isn&amp;rsquo;t the norm, the fact is that ABBA only checks the bona fides of the beneficiaries, and is toothless when it comes to enforcing quality standards on the PDS. &lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
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For those whose fingerprints don&#039;t match, life becomes &#039;imPoS-able&#039;

New Delhi: In certain circles of Jharkhand, a newly-minted term has become the source of heartburn and more &amp;mdash; PoS-able. It refers to whether or not one&amp;rsquo;s fingerprints match on the...&#039;
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                <div align="justify">-Business Standard<br /><br /><em>For those whose fingerprints don't match, life becomes 'imPoS-able'<br /><br />New Delhi: </em>In certain circles of Jharkhand, a newly-minted term has become the source of heartburn and more &mdash; PoS-able. It refers to whether or not one&rsquo;s fingerprints match on the PoS (point of sale) biometric readers in ration shops. Those whose fingerprints match, access their allotted ration. For those whose fingerprints don&rsquo;t match, life becomes &lsquo;imPoS-able&rsquo;. <br /><br />According to an ongoing study by Ranchi University and IIT Delhi, led by economists Jean Dreze and Reetika Khera, while 85 per cent of Jharkhand&rsquo;s beneficiaries report receiving their rations (either because they or a family member is lucky enough to be PoS-able), 15 per cent of the state&rsquo;s poorest have been excluded from the state&rsquo;s public distribution system, even though they hold valid ration cards. <br /><br />Here are some cases in point. In Rajabar village, Sarita Devi&rsquo;s household has been unable to transact grains since their son, the only PoS-able member of the family, migrated to Delhi. He&rsquo;s also the only phone owner, so she can&rsquo;t access the OTP (one-time password) needed for a manual override. Not far away in Simdega, Lusiya Kullu and her husband&rsquo;s Aadhaar numbers haven&rsquo;t been seeded with their ration cards. In spite of their having submitted photocopies of their Aadhaar cards to the dealer several times, they haven&rsquo;t received their ration entitlement since March. Ashit Kumar Nag, a hawker from Raghunathpur, has to forego a day&rsquo;s wage to collect his ration as the shop is far from his home. Ever since the introduction of biometric identification, he&rsquo;s often had to make three trips to collect one month&rsquo;s rations due to connectivity issues.<br /><br /><em>Findings do not paint a rosy picture<br /></em><br />Dreze and Khera&rsquo;s study, which covers about 900 randomly selected households in 32 villages in eight districts of Jharkhand, is finding (the final results are being compiled) that despite the introduction of Aadhaar-Based Biometric Authentication (ABBA), the disbursal of foodgrain under the public distribution system (PDS) is neither easy, nor efficient. &ldquo;Households have reported increased transaction costs,&rdquo; says Khera. &ldquo;The queues are longer, more trips to the ration shop are needed to get each month&rsquo;s entitlement and many say they need to pull their children out of school to get household rations.&rdquo; The researchers also photographed, in some cases, the foodgrain disbursed, which was of very poor quality. While Khera points out that this isn&rsquo;t the norm, the fact is that ABBA only checks the bona fides of the beneficiaries, and is toothless when it comes to enforcing quality standards on the PDS. <br /><br />More disturbingly, the study indicates that the introduction of ABBA hasn&rsquo;t addressed the basic problem with the mechanism of ration disbursal &mdash; Katauti, or cut. &ldquo;Households report that the &lsquo;cuts&rsquo; extracted (in kind) by PDS dealers have remained more or less the same. The shopkeeper gives the beneficiary less ration than what s/he is entitled to, and sells the rest in the open market,&rdquo; Khera explains. &ldquo;This is continuing in spite of ABBA.&rdquo; <br /><br />Please <a href="http://www.business-standard.com/article/economy-policy/pds-focus-should-be-on-people-not-fingerprints-117082500068_1.html" title="http://www.business-standard.com/article/economy-policy/pds-focus-should-be-on-people-not-fingerprints-117082500068_1.html">click here</a> to read more. <br /><br /><br /></div>               </font>
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-Business Standard<br />
<br />
<em>For those whose fingerprints don't match, life becomes 'imPoS-able'<br />
<br />
New Delhi: </em>In certain circles of Jharkhand, a newly-minted term has become the source of heartburn and more &mdash; PoS-able. It refers to whether or not one&rsquo;s fingerprints match on the PoS (point of sale) biometric readers in ration shops. Those whose fingerprints match, access their allotted ration. For those whose fingerprints don&rsquo;t match, life becomes &lsquo;imPoS-able&rsquo;. <br />
<br />
According to an ongoing study by Ranchi University and IIT Delhi, led by economists Jean Dreze and Reetika Khera, while 85 per cent of Jharkhand&rsquo;s beneficiaries report receiving their rations (either because they or a family member is lucky enough to be PoS-able), 15 per cent of the state&rsquo;s poorest have been excluded from the state&rsquo;s public distribution system, even though they hold valid ration cards. <br />
<br />
Here are some cases in point. In Rajabar village, Sarita Devi&rsquo;s household has been unable to transact grains since their son, the only PoS-able member of the family, migrated to Delhi. He&rsquo;s also the only phone owner, so she can&rsquo;t access the OTP (one-time password) needed for a manual override. Not far away in Simdega, Lusiya Kullu and her husband&rsquo;s Aadhaar numbers haven&rsquo;t been seeded with their ration cards. In spite of their having submitted photocopies of their Aadhaar cards to the dealer several times, they haven&rsquo;t received their ration entitlement since March. Ashit Kumar Nag, a hawker from Raghunathpur, has to forego a day&rsquo;s wage to collect his ration as the shop is far from his home. Ever since the introduction of biometric identification, he&rsquo;s often had to make three trips to collect one month&rsquo;s rations due to connectivity issues.<br />
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<em>Findings do not paint a rosy picture<br />
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Dreze and Khera&rsquo;s study, which covers about 900 randomly selected households in 32 villages in eight districts of Jharkhand, is finding (the final results are being compiled) that despite the introduction of Aadhaar-Based Biometric Authentication (ABBA), the disbursal of foodgrain under the public distribution system (PDS) is neither easy, nor efficient. &ldquo;Households have reported increased transaction costs,&rdquo; says Khera. &ldquo;The queues are longer, more trips to the ration shop are needed to get each month&rsquo;s entitlement and many say they need to pull their children out of school to get household rations.&rdquo; The researchers also photographed, in some cases, the foodgrain disbursed, which was of very poor quality. While Khera points out that this isn&rsquo;t the norm, the fact is that ABBA only checks the bona fides of the beneficiaries, and is toothless when it comes to enforcing quality standards on the PDS. <br />
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More disturbingly, the study indicates that the introduction of ABBA hasn&rsquo;t addressed the basic problem with the mechanism of ration disbursal &mdash; Katauti, or cut. &ldquo;Households report that the &lsquo;cuts&rsquo; extracted (in kind) by PDS dealers have remained more or less the same. The shopkeeper gives the beneficiary less ration than what s/he is entitled to, and sells the rest in the open market,&rdquo; Khera explains. &ldquo;This is continuing in spite of ABBA.&rdquo; <br />
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Please <a href="http://www.business-standard.com/article/economy-policy/pds-focus-should-be-on-people-not-fingerprints-117082500068_1.html">click here</a> to read more. <br />
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For those whose fingerprints don't match, life becomes 'imPoS-able'

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-Business Standard<br />
<br />
<em>For those whose fingerprints don't match, life becomes 'imPoS-able'<br />
<br />
New Delhi: </em>In certain circles of Jharkhand, a newly-minted term has become the source of heartburn and more &mdash; PoS-able. It refers to whether or not one&rsquo;s fingerprints match on the PoS (point of sale) biometric readers in ration shops. Those whose fingerprints match, access their allotted ration. For those whose fingerprints don&rsquo;t match, life becomes &lsquo;imPoS-able&rsquo;. <br />
<br />
According to an ongoing study by Ranchi University and IIT Delhi, led by economists Jean Dreze and Reetika Khera, while 85 per cent of Jharkhand&rsquo;s beneficiaries report receiving their rations (either because they or a family member is lucky enough to be PoS-able), 15 per cent of the state&rsquo;s poorest have been excluded from the state&rsquo;s public distribution system, even though they hold valid ration cards. <br />
<br />
Here are some cases in point. In Rajabar village, Sarita Devi&rsquo;s household has been unable to transact grains since their son, the only PoS-able member of the family, migrated to Delhi. He&rsquo;s also the only phone owner, so she can&rsquo;t access the OTP (one-time password) needed for a manual override. Not far away in Simdega, Lusiya Kullu and her husband&rsquo;s Aadhaar numbers haven&rsquo;t been seeded with their ration cards. In spite of their having submitted photocopies of their Aadhaar cards to the dealer several times, they haven&rsquo;t received their ration entitlement since March. Ashit Kumar Nag, a hawker from Raghunathpur, has to forego a day&rsquo;s wage to collect his ration as the shop is far from his home. Ever since the introduction of biometric identification, he&rsquo;s often had to make three trips to collect one month&rsquo;s rations due to connectivity issues.<br />
<br />
<em>Findings do not paint a rosy picture<br />
</em><br />
Dreze and Khera&rsquo;s study, which covers about 900 randomly selected households in 32 villages in eight districts of Jharkhand, is finding (the final results are being compiled) that despite the introduction of Aadhaar-Based Biometric Authentication (ABBA), the disbursal of foodgrain under the public distribution system (PDS) is neither easy, nor efficient. &ldquo;Households have reported increased transaction costs,&rdquo; says Khera. &ldquo;The queues are longer, more trips to the ration shop are needed to get each month&rsquo;s entitlement and many say they need to pull their children out of school to get household rations.&rdquo; The researchers also photographed, in some cases, the foodgrain disbursed, which was of very poor quality. While Khera points out that this isn&rsquo;t the norm, the fact is that ABBA only checks the bona fides of the beneficiaries, and is toothless when it comes to enforcing quality standards on the PDS. <br />
<br />
More disturbingly, the study indicates that the introduction of ABBA hasn&rsquo;t addressed the basic problem with the mechanism of ration disbursal &mdash; Katauti, or cut. &ldquo;Households report that the &lsquo;cuts&rsquo; extracted (in kind) by PDS dealers have remained more or less the same. The shopkeeper gives the beneficiary less ration than what s/he is entitled to, and sells the rest in the open market,&rdquo; Khera explains. &ldquo;This is continuing in spite of ABBA.&rdquo; <br />
<br />
Please <a href="http://www.business-standard.com/article/economy-policy/pds-focus-should-be-on-people-not-fingerprints-117082500068_1.html">click here</a> to read more. <br />
<br />
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For those whose fingerprints don't match, life becomes 'imPoS-able'

New Delhi: In certain circles of Jharkhand, a newly-minted term has become the source of heartburn and more &mdash; PoS-able. It refers to whether or not one&rsquo;s fingerprints match on the...'
$disp = '<div align="justify">-Business Standard<br /><br /><em>For those whose fingerprints don't match, life becomes 'imPoS-able'<br /><br />New Delhi: </em>In certain circles of Jharkhand, a newly-minted term has become the source of heartburn and more &mdash; PoS-able. It refers to whether or not one&rsquo;s fingerprints match on the PoS (point of sale) biometric readers in ration shops. Those whose fingerprints match, access their allotted ration. For those whose fingerprints don&rsquo;t match, life becomes &lsquo;imPoS-able&rsquo;. <br /><br />According to an ongoing study by Ranchi University and IIT Delhi, led by economists Jean Dreze and Reetika Khera, while 85 per cent of Jharkhand&rsquo;s beneficiaries report receiving their rations (either because they or a family member is lucky enough to be PoS-able), 15 per cent of the state&rsquo;s poorest have been excluded from the state&rsquo;s public distribution system, even though they hold valid ration cards. <br /><br />Here are some cases in point. In Rajabar village, Sarita Devi&rsquo;s household has been unable to transact grains since their son, the only PoS-able member of the family, migrated to Delhi. He&rsquo;s also the only phone owner, so she can&rsquo;t access the OTP (one-time password) needed for a manual override. Not far away in Simdega, Lusiya Kullu and her husband&rsquo;s Aadhaar numbers haven&rsquo;t been seeded with their ration cards. In spite of their having submitted photocopies of their Aadhaar cards to the dealer several times, they haven&rsquo;t received their ration entitlement since March. Ashit Kumar Nag, a hawker from Raghunathpur, has to forego a day&rsquo;s wage to collect his ration as the shop is far from his home. Ever since the introduction of biometric identification, he&rsquo;s often had to make three trips to collect one month&rsquo;s rations due to connectivity issues.<br /><br /><em>Findings do not paint a rosy picture<br /></em><br />Dreze and Khera&rsquo;s study, which covers about 900 randomly selected households in 32 villages in eight districts of Jharkhand, is finding (the final results are being compiled) that despite the introduction of Aadhaar-Based Biometric Authentication (ABBA), the disbursal of foodgrain under the public distribution system (PDS) is neither easy, nor efficient. &ldquo;Households have reported increased transaction costs,&rdquo; says Khera. &ldquo;The queues are longer, more trips to the ration shop are needed to get each month&rsquo;s entitlement and many say they need to pull their children out of school to get household rations.&rdquo; The researchers also photographed, in some cases, the foodgrain disbursed, which was of very poor quality. While Khera points out that this isn&rsquo;t the norm, the fact is that ABBA only checks the bona fides of the beneficiaries, and is toothless when it comes to enforcing quality standards on the PDS. <br /><br />More disturbingly, the study indicates that the introduction of ABBA hasn&rsquo;t addressed the basic problem with the mechanism of ration disbursal &mdash; Katauti, or cut. &ldquo;Households report that the &lsquo;cuts&rsquo; extracted (in kind) by PDS dealers have remained more or less the same. The shopkeeper gives the beneficiary less ration than what s/he is entitled to, and sells the rest in the open market,&rdquo; Khera explains. &ldquo;This is continuing in spite of ABBA.&rdquo; <br /><br />Please <a href="http://www.business-standard.com/article/economy-policy/pds-focus-should-be-on-people-not-fingerprints-117082500068_1.html" title="http://www.business-standard.com/article/economy-policy/pds-focus-should-be-on-people-not-fingerprints-117082500068_1.html">click here</a> to read more. <br /><br /><br /></div>'
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PDS focus should be on people, not fingerprints -Geetanjali Krishna

-Business Standard For those whose fingerprints don't match, life becomes 'imPoS-able' New Delhi: In certain circles of Jharkhand, a newly-minted term has become the source of heartburn and more — PoS-able. It refers to whether or not one’s fingerprints match on the PoS (point of sale) biometric readers in ration shops. Those whose fingerprints match, access their allotted ration. For those whose fingerprints don’t match, life becomes ‘imPoS-able’. According to an ongoing study by Ranchi University and IIT Delhi, led by economists Jean Dreze and Reetika Khera, while 85 per cent of Jharkhand’s beneficiaries report receiving their rations (either because they or a family member is lucky enough to be PoS-able), 15 per cent of the state’s poorest have been excluded from the state’s public distribution system, even though they hold valid ration cards. Here are some cases in point. In Rajabar village, Sarita Devi’s household has been unable to transact grains since their son, the only PoS-able member of the family, migrated to Delhi. He’s also the only phone owner, so she can’t access the OTP (one-time password) needed for a manual override. Not far away in Simdega, Lusiya Kullu and her husband’s Aadhaar numbers haven’t been seeded with their ration cards. In spite of their having submitted photocopies of their Aadhaar cards to the dealer several times, they haven’t received their ration entitlement since March. Ashit Kumar Nag, a hawker from Raghunathpur, has to forego a day’s wage to collect his ration as the shop is far from his home. Ever since the introduction of biometric identification, he’s often had to make three trips to collect one month’s rations due to connectivity issues. Findings do not paint a rosy picture Dreze and Khera’s study, which covers about 900 randomly selected households in 32 villages in eight districts of Jharkhand, is finding (the final results are being compiled) that despite the introduction of Aadhaar-Based Biometric Authentication (ABBA), the disbursal of foodgrain under the public distribution system (PDS) is neither easy, nor efficient. “Households have reported increased transaction costs,” says Khera. “The queues are longer, more trips to the ration shop are needed to get each month’s entitlement and many say they need to pull their children out of school to get household rations.” The researchers also photographed, in some cases, the foodgrain disbursed, which was of very poor quality. While Khera points out that this isn’t the norm, the fact is that ABBA only checks the bona fides of the beneficiaries, and is toothless when it comes to enforcing quality standards on the PDS. More disturbingly, the study indicates that the introduction of ABBA hasn’t addressed the basic problem with the mechanism of ration disbursal — Katauti, or cut. “Households report that the ‘cuts’ extracted (in kind) by PDS dealers have remained more or less the same. The shopkeeper gives the beneficiary less ration than what s/he is entitled to, and sells the rest in the open market,” Khera explains. “This is continuing in spite of ABBA.” Please click here to read more.