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India Matters: I am a first-time voter
Published On: April 14, 2011 | Duration: 19 min, 42 sec
Ten years ago, the West Bengal government introduced individual entitlements or individual ration cards. On paper the objective was to enable poor families to buy installments of foodgrain. But it has become a way of distributing political largesse to the maximum number of voters.