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A year since ‘One Nation, One Ration’ was implemented, why hasn’t it taken off?
The scheme is built on Aadhaar and has design complications that have not been addressed. A woman at a ration shop in Ahmedabad. | Amit Dave/Reuters
When 48-year-old Milan Kumar Jha read about the Modi government’s ‘One Nation One Ration’ scheme in a newspaper in February, he immediately rushed to the nearest government ration shop.
In the 30 years that he had been working in Mumbai, initially as a labourer and then as a rickshaw puller, Jha had not been able to access subsidised foodgrain in city ration shops, even though he and his family are enrolled in the public distribution system back home in their village in Bihar’s Madhubani district.
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