The wait for the elusive ration card

Baskobedo Pahar Village, Mundro Block, Jharkhand | Sanju Malto

Ration Cards are vital for communities that live below the poverty line to get food grains at subsidised rates. In this community 13 people are yet to get the elusive piece of paper. Community Correspondent Sanju Malto reports on how they survive off the fruits and forests that surround them, but it is barely enough.

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