Days are not far off when Gujarat’s business capital Ahmedabad would be added to the list of places, led by Jharkhand’s rural areas, where failure of aadhaar-based biometric authentication led to 25 of 45 starvation deaths across India since 2017. Ahmedabad-based NGO Human Development and Research Centre (HDRC) survey has revealed that Kesarben Ramabhai Thakore, 85, a poor women living in Sheherkotda slum area of Ahmedabad, is unable to get her ration from the public distribution system (PDS) because her fingers fail in biometric authentication. The survey reveals that of the 7,512 families surveyed, 5,116 families had above poverty line (APL) ration cards and are refused ration. Then, there were 142 families which complained that Rs 5 to Rs 10 were charged from them for biometric authentication, even if they are not given ration.
— source counterview.in |Mar 09, 2019