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LATEST NEWS UPDATES | COVID-19: Thousands pushed to starvation due to faulty biometric system in Bihar -CK Manoj

COVID-19: Thousands pushed to starvation due to faulty biometric system in Bihar -CK Manoj

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published Published on Apr 24, 2020   modified Modified on Apr 27, 2020

-Down to Earth

Poor, elderly not able to match fingerprints on system, not getting food grain as a result

Thousands of poor villagers have been pushed to the brink of starvation in Bihar as the biometric system installed to curb leakages in the public distribution system (PDS) is proving to be the stumbling block on their way.

The Food and Consumer Protection Department in the state has made it mandatory for use of Aadhaar-based biometric authentication at the PDS shops after complaints of large-scale irregularities in distribution of rations to ration card holders.

The system involves installing point of sale (PoS) machines at the PDS outlets and verifying the identity of the cardholders by matching their fingerprints against the Aadhaar database over the internet but this has caused a new problem for the poor.

The main worry for the beneficiaries is that the machines are not identifying them as their fingerprints have either faded or have almost vanished due to long hours of hard labour in the field.

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Down to Earth, 24 April, 2020, https://www.downtoearth.org.in/news/food/covid-19-thousands-pushed-to-starvation-due-to-faulty-biometric-system-in-bihar-70681?fbclid=IwAR15PwVptniDjopNYVyT0tplpr0CNmVS0LtErfrdDb9dUi5hC66PUsim_zU


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