The Odisha government has excluded the names of 7,48,849 people from the ration card list during the e-KYC verification process conducted across the state, a minister told the Assembly Wednesday.

Food Supplies and Consumer Welfare Minister Krushna Chandra Patra, in a written statement to the House, said that since June 2024, 30,125 ineligible ration card holders, comprising 1,09,853 individuals and 6,38,996 death cases, have been excluded from the ration card database.

As per the reply, the highest 53,964 people have been excluded from the list in Ganjam district due to death, followed by Keonjhar district (46,334), Sundargarh (33,999), Koraput (33,785), Kalahandi (32,663) and Nabarangpur (30,830).

Similarly, a maximum of 10,862 ineligible individuals have been removed from the list in

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