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Ration cards have been linked to Aadhaar cards in the city. At shops The Indian Express visited in January and February, many left without their allocated kilos of wheat and rice. “The linkage of Aadhaar with ration cards has led to a larger scale of exclusion. “At least two members of the family came to my ration shop daily for about 10 days last month, but the machine wouldn’t recognise their fingerprints. The Indian Express visited FPS across Delhi over a span of five weeks and found that in several cases, the machines were faulty, network connectivity was low, and fingerprint recognition of the elderly was problematic..