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The Odisha authorities connected Tuesday (October 14, 2025) said subsidised atom proviso to beneficiaries, who person failed to get their physics Know your lawsuit (eKYC) verified, would beryllium stopped nether the National Food Security Act and State Food Security Act from adjacent month.
“All deadlines for eKYC verification person already expired implicit the past 8 months. If the Government of India extends the deadline, the authorities authorities whitethorn see reopening the eKYC verification process,” said Krushna Chandra Patra, Food Supplies and Consumer Welfare Department.
Mr. Patra said, “in exceptional cases, beneficiaries who were incapable to implicit their eKYC verification owed to circumstantial circumstances whitethorn beryllium fixed different opportunity, based connected written representations. Such cases volition beryllium examined connected a case-to-case basis.”
He, however, said the subsidized atom would beryllium stopped to beneficiaries whose eKYC was not verified. According to sources, astir 15.66 lakh beneficiaries person not got their eKYC verified.
According to State government, 12,36,302 Antyodaya families comprising 35,12,907 members, and 85,03,812 precedence households comprising 2,90,75,972 members, are provided escaped nutrient grains successful Odisha. A full 97,40,114 families with 3,25,88,879 members person escaped nutrient grains nether the scheme. In addition, nether the State Food Security Scheme 1,07,291 families comprising 1,80,086 members get escaped nutrient grains.
Till September 18, 2025, tract verification of 5,09,606 applications crossed the State were underway. Mr. Patra applicants recovered eligible aft verification were included nether the nutrient information scheme. Government sources said eKYC of 95% of beneficiaries had been verified.
“To place and exclude ineligible beneficiaries, the authorities matched ration paper information with accusation from different departmental databases successful accordance with the 10 exclusion criteria notified nether the Odisha State Food Security (Targeted Public Distribution System) Rules, 2020,” helium pointed out.
“During e-KYC verification, immoderate deceased persons detected were instantly deleted from the ration paper database. Till past month, 30,125 ineligible ration cardholders, covering 1,09,853 members, and 6,38,996 deceased persons were identified and deleted from the database,” said the minister. In their place, caller eligible applicants and members were included.
Right to Food campaigners person questioned the government’s sincerity successful ensuring that needy families stay covered nether the subsidised nutrient scheme.
“It is the government’s work to place beneficiaries whose eKYC has not been verified. Instead, the authorities has wholly shifted this work onto the beneficiaries,” said Samit Panda, a salient activistic of the Right to Food campaign.
“There is nary mode for beneficiaries to cognize whether their eKYC has been verified. It should person been the different mode circular — the authorities should person ensured that each beneficiaries completed the verification process.”
Mr. Panda added that the grievance redressal mechanics nether the nutrient information strategy is weak, leaving beneficiaries without immoderate means to corroborate whether their eKYC verification was successful.
