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Post by Guest Tue Jan 09, 2018 9:34 am

New Delhi: Nobody in the Narendra Modi government seems to know where the prime minister got the data on the basis of which he told the Lok Sabha that the use of technology and Aadhaar led to the discovery of 3.95 crore bogus ration cards (from 1:19 onwards in the video below), Right to Information Act activist Anjali Bharadwaj on Tuesday claimed at a press conference organised to “expose the false claims of the government about the benefits of Aadhaar”...


Within a month of Modi speaking about how Aadhaar had helped check flaws in the public distribution system, Bharadwaj, who has worked in the field of food rights for a long time, filed a plea under the RTI Act. She said since no details pertaining to the 3.95 crore ration cards in question was available online,  she filed an RTI application with the PMO on March 7 seeking state-wise numbers and details of bogus ration cards, including the ration card number, the name and address of ration the cardholder.

But the PMO transferred the RTI application to the DFPD, which stated that while information about the state-wise number of bogus cards was already on its website, the details pertain to the state governments. It therefore transferred the application to various state governments and union territories and the under secretary (Computer Cell).

Bharadwaj said while a file titled “deletion of bogus ration cards by states/UTs” was available on the department website, and it did possess a “statement showing the number of bogus/ineligible rations cards deleted by the state/UT governments with effect from July 2006 onwards” and was last “updated on February 16, 2016”, it did not relate to the statement that the prime minister made, since it did not state if cards were found to be bogus due to technology or Aadhaar.

Also, she said, the prime minister was referring to two-and-a-half years of rule under him. “Further,” Bharadwaj added, “the figures provided in the file did not match with the figures stated by Modi.”

https://thewire.in/166087/narendra-modi-bogus-ration-card-aadhaar/

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