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The Tamil Nadu Cauvery Delta Farmers Protection Association has claimed that immoderate of the household cardholders were incapable to person their Pongal Gift Hampers successful Delta districts aft the constituent of merchantability machines astatine the ration shops rejected their biometric inputs.
In a memorandum, forwarded to the State authorities done the Thanjavur territory administration, Association caput Sundara Vimalanathan said that PDS store employees expressed their inability to proceed further arsenic the machines turned down the biometric inputs of definite beneficiaries, peculiarly aged radical and radical with disabilities.
They were directed to get their biometrics updated successful UIDAI portal and marque a 2nd effort to person their Pongal Gift Hampers since the matching of iris details of the beneficiary was not entertained astatine the ration shops, helium added.
Meanwhile, an aged idiosyncratic successful Thanjavur alleged that astatine a ration store on the Medical College Road the ‘priceless’ sari and dhoti were not issued to cardholders on with the Pongal Gift Hampers.
When contacted, the officials said cardholders whose biometrics did not lucifer had been asked to update them successful the UIDAI portal. Those who did not person their sari and dhoti owed to ‘short supply’ had been asked to cod it later.
