Bareilly is a western district
of Uttar Pradesh where an old age woman died because of starvation this week.
According to the report, the woman succumbed to her hunger. It is a wondering
fact that the people are blaming the system failure in this incident.
This is the starvation death that has been reported in UP after
the death of Santoshi from Jharkhand last month.
According to the information, the woman was down by illness since
last 5 days. The husband of woman in this condition went to collect the ration
from the government public distribution provision store. He was allegedly
refused the ration. The shopkeeper refused to give the ration in the absence of
woman. The shopkeeper said, “The ration shall be given after taking the
fingerprint impression.”
It is alleged that the
woman’s home began to face the food shortage for not being issued of ration;
meanwhile the ill woman dies. The allegation is tossed that the starvation
caused her death.
The victim woman’s family is very poor, as told here.
According to the SDM, the deceased woman was
Antyoday card holder. He added the matter is being investigated. The new ration
cards have been issued under Antyoday scheme which has provision of card holder
to be head of senior woman in family. The beneficiaries of this scheme from
public distribution shop have been added to the Adhar link.
