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Prime Minister Narendra Modi's brother and president of Gujarat Fair Price Shop Owners Association Prahlad Modi said on Thursday, 15 February, that several people have been denied monthly ration at fair price shops in the state because of problems in the Aadhaar-related software installed at these shops.
The Gujarat government had launched Maa Annapurna Yojana in April 2016 to provide subsidised food-grains to eligible beneficiaries through 17,000-odd ration (fair price) shops under the National Food Security Act. These shops are linked with the central database through the E-FPS software.
Talking to PTI, Modi said several fair price shops in the state have complained about difficulties in the software which validates thumb impressions of customers and reads their Aadhaar cards.
The government should ensure that these problems are sorted out, and, in the meantime, shop owners should be allowed to use the old manual system for disbursing the monthly ration, he demanded.
Modi and other members of his association met senior officials of the Food, Civil Supply and Consumer Affairs Department in this regard on 14 February.
The state government has installed the E-FPS software at 17,000-odd ration shops in the state.
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