Many Don't Get Ration Under PDS Due To Aadhaar Issues, Finds Latest Report

Many Don’t Get Ration Under PDS Due To Aadhaar Issues, Finds Latest Report

State of Aadhaar Report 2017-18 is a survey that covers 2,947 rural households of AP, Raj & WB

Even as the government promotes Aadhaar as an enabler to ensure that food and other subsidies reach the poor, a new report on Thursday said that a large number of people do not get food ration under the Public Distribution System (PDS) due to factors related to the biometric identification system.

State capacity also has a bearing on the functioning of PDS, with wide variation between Rajasthan and Andhra Pradesh, said the report by IDinsight, a global development analytics firm working across India. Expressing concern over the privacy of their data, almost all of the respondents said it was important to know what the government would do with their Aadhaar data.

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