Centre flags 2.91 crore suspect PDS beneficiaries, pushes states on verification
The Centre has asked states to complete time-bound field verification of 2.91 crore potentially ineligible ration-card beneficiaries, including 34.12 lakh recorded as deceased, while preventing exclusion of genuine households. India’s digitised PDS serves 80.5 crore people via 5.43 lakh ration shops.
The Centre flagged 2.91 crore potentially ineligible PDS beneficiaries and urged states to complete field verification while avoiding exclusion of genuine households. India’s digitised PDS covers 80.5 crore beneficiaries through over 5.43 lakh ration shops, with scope to add 79 lakh eligible people.
Why this matters
No related recent PDS signals were supplied. The verification order focuses on cleaning beneficiary records across the digitised ration network while seeking to avoid exclusion of eligible households.
Omni-channel is steady, with 1,441 signals in 90 days; no QoQ change figure was provided.
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