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Media reports in support of Aadhaar claiming that lakhs of ‘ghost students’ avail midday meals are based on unverified claims, not serious investigation.
Within days of the Ministry of Human Resource Development’s notification making Aadhaar compulsory for midday meals, stories of corruption in the scheme popped up in the media, as if on cue. No surprise here for those familiar with the Aadhaar-related propaganda. The corruption stories, however misleading, were relayed with abandon – predictably again – by unsuspecting media agencies and commentators.
The first story involved a TV crew trekking to the Rajgarh hills of Sahibganj, one of Jharkhand’s
