RANCHI: Uncertainty clouds the death of an 11-year-old woman in Jharkhand final month. While activists have attributed Santoshi's death to starvation, the administration in Simdega district has blamed malaria.
The state executive has been in damage-control mode because it used to be revealed the ration card of the kid's family, residents of Karimati village in Simdega, used to be cancelled for not having been linked to Aadhaar.
The district's deputy commissioner Manjunath Bhajantri claimed on Monday she had died of malaria, not starvation. "We constituted a probe team comprising the district supply officer, civil surgeon and project director, which discovered the girl was suffering from malaria and undergoing treatment under a local registered medical practitioner," he stated.
He confirmed the "abjectly poor" family's ration card have been cancelled.
Asked if the family used to be not receiving rations as a result of their lack of ability to seed the ration card with Aadhaar, Bhajantri stated sellers have been, for now, supplying rations without reference to Aadhaar linking. "The food distribution and consumer affairs department is in the process of distribut ing PoS machines to the dealers. Once that is done, the dealers won't be able to provide rations unless the beneficiary's biometrics are verified by the machine," he stated.
Activists from Right to Food Campaign, on the other hand, have a distinct story . Akash Ranjan and Dheeraj Kumar, a few of the first to achieve the village, stated the family had only one ration card, issued within the identify of the woman's grandmother, and stopped getting rations in February as the broker stated it had to be linked with her Aadhaar quantity."Tatai Nayak, the father of the girl, is mentally unsound and the mother is far too weak to work as a labourer. Since their ration card was cancelled, the family has gone without eating for several days on many occasions," Ranjan stated.
Balram, the Supreme Court-appointed adviser to the commissioner within the Right to Food case, stated the details of the case have been forwarded to recommend Prashant Bhushan, who's fighting a case in opposition to Aadhaar being made obligatory for the supply of essential services."The SC, in its interim order, has clarified that no essential service can be denied to citizens by the government until a final order is passed in the matter," he stated, "The purpose of the National Food Security Act (NFSA) would be defeated if leakages are plugged at the cost of lives of the poor people."
The state food commission, constituted below the NFSA, has additionally taken cognisance of the matter, and is making ready a record.
The state executive has been in damage-control mode because it used to be revealed the ration card of the kid's family, residents of Karimati village in Simdega, used to be cancelled for not having been linked to Aadhaar.
The district's deputy commissioner Manjunath Bhajantri claimed on Monday she had died of malaria, not starvation. "We constituted a probe team comprising the district supply officer, civil surgeon and project director, which discovered the girl was suffering from malaria and undergoing treatment under a local registered medical practitioner," he stated.
He confirmed the "abjectly poor" family's ration card have been cancelled.
Asked if the family used to be not receiving rations as a result of their lack of ability to seed the ration card with Aadhaar, Bhajantri stated sellers have been, for now, supplying rations without reference to Aadhaar linking. "The food distribution and consumer affairs department is in the process of distribut ing PoS machines to the dealers. Once that is done, the dealers won't be able to provide rations unless the beneficiary's biometrics are verified by the machine," he stated.
Activists from Right to Food Campaign, on the other hand, have a distinct story . Akash Ranjan and Dheeraj Kumar, a few of the first to achieve the village, stated the family had only one ration card, issued within the identify of the woman's grandmother, and stopped getting rations in February as the broker stated it had to be linked with her Aadhaar quantity."Tatai Nayak, the father of the girl, is mentally unsound and the mother is far too weak to work as a labourer. Since their ration card was cancelled, the family has gone without eating for several days on many occasions," Ranjan stated.
Balram, the Supreme Court-appointed adviser to the commissioner within the Right to Food case, stated the details of the case have been forwarded to recommend Prashant Bhushan, who's fighting a case in opposition to Aadhaar being made obligatory for the supply of essential services."The SC, in its interim order, has clarified that no essential service can be denied to citizens by the government until a final order is passed in the matter," he stated, "The purpose of the National Food Security Act (NFSA) would be defeated if leakages are plugged at the cost of lives of the poor people."
The state food commission, constituted below the NFSA, has additionally taken cognisance of the matter, and is making ready a record.
11-year-old dies: Activists cry hunger, Jharkhand government says malaria
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