It
was only the other day I was talking about how PAHAL program helped government in closing more than 3 crore
fake/duplicate/inactive accounts. First
thought came to my mind while reading that article was, how this much fake
accounts were created in the first place. How much money and effort might have
spent on giving subsidies to these bogus uses.
Anyway,
fakes doesn't stop at LPG accounts. As per the new government press release,
based on 2011 census and family size estimates projected over 2015, a study (by
National Council of Applied Economic
Research (NCAER)) has estimated
that, the number of excess ration cards made in five target States (Bihar,
Chhattisgarh, Karnataka, Uttar Pradesh, West Bengal) is close to 1.65 crore.
The good news
is, state governments and UTs deleted over 1.2 crore fake ration cards from
2012 till now. Highest number of fake cards were deleted by West Bengal (62.43
lakh) followed by Karnataka (52.78 lakh).
In
a country where people who committed crimes like rape, murder and forging fake degree certificates are easily getting elected to parliament and assembiles; were public money easily flows
in to the pokets of ministers and their cliques some
crore fakes entries in LPG and PDS registeres are not a big
deal. However, this is not the situation any one of us
wants.
Government's
new plan to link everything with Aadhar and more computerization in storage,
transportation and delivery will definitely help to weed out the fakes. But I
wonder how many fakes are already entered in to our Aadhar system!!!
Sajeev
Reference
1. GoI Press Release
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