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Palghar tribals caught in a web of deceit; no ration since July

Following mid-days expose about hunger, malnutrition in Palghar villages, it now emerges that rations were updated in online tracker but never got delivered on ground

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Villagers show their PHH ration cards without entries for all of July. They blame the government and local ration shop owner for failing to give them rations. Pics /Hanif Patel

Villagers show their PHH ration cards without entries for all of July. They blame the government and local ration shop owner for failing to give them rations. Pics /Hanif Patel

There seems to be no end to the suffering of Palghar's tribals. A mid-day team that visited Kayari village in Jawhar Taluka, found they are deprived of government schemes. The Priority Households (PHH) ration card is supposed to provide them grain at subsidised rates under the National Food Security Act, 2013. But they have not received ration in July.

As a result there is no manual entry in their cards, but interestingly, the website of the Aadhaar enabled Public Distribution System (AePDS) has been updated.

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