Aadhaar: Is India’s biometric ID scheme hurting the poor?
For six to seven days every month, says Muniya Devi, her five-member family doesn’t get food to eat.
The frail 31-year-old lives with her children in an arid village in Jharkhand, one of India’s poorest states. Her husband, Bushan, works in a brick kiln some 65km (40 miles) away, earning 130 rupees ($1.90; £1.40) a day.
For the last three years, they have been deprived of subsidised food from India’s vast public distribution system, a lifeline for the poor. That is not because supplies have dried up at the neighbourhood shop, but because their ration cards have not been linked to their biometric-based 12-digit personal identification numbers.
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