The National Human Rights Commission has taken cognizance of a complaint alleging denial of benefits to the people during Covid pandenic under the Pradhan Mantri Garib Kalyan Anna Yojna (PMGKAY) and other schemes under the Integral Management of Public Distribution System (IMPDS) due to non completion of bio metric authentication of the beneficiaries.
Accordingly, it has issued notices to the Secretary, Department of Food and Public Distribution, Union Ministry of Consumer Affairs , Food and Public Distribution, and the Chief Secretaries/Administrators of all the States/UTs.
The reports have been sought from them within four weeks on the action taken regarding the issue of problematic biometric authentication or “End-to-end Computerization of Public Distribution System (PDS) Operations”.
