In the past two years starvation deaths are being consistently reported from Jharkhand. Activists who went to investigate found that it was people who were very poor and not being given their rations who lost their lives. They just had no food — in a country where there is no shortage of food!
The major reason why people were not getting their rations was Aadhaar. It has been made mandatory by the central government for getting rations. The poor depend on inexpensive food from ration shops and they are being turned away because either their Aadhaar has not been linked. . .
