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Video: Are the Aadhaar-linked welfare schemes leaving India’s poor hungry?

Testimonies from people who have been denied several entitlements due to the mandatory integration of welfare schemes like PDS with Aadhaar.

Aabid Shafi
Mar 23, 2018 · 06:12 pm
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