Ludhiana, Jan. 10 -- Over 10,214 ration card holding families in Ludhiana are facing the risk of being excluded from free wheat entitlement under the National Food Security Act (NFSA) after they failed to complete the mandatory eKYC verification, meant to weed out ineligible beneficiaries from the public distribution system, officials familiar with the matter said.

According to officials, the district food and civil supplies department has launched a special survey to identify families in which not even a single member has completed the eKYC process. Such families are likely to be denied subsidised wheat allocations scheduled for January, if verification is not completed within the stipulated period. In Punjab, NFSA beneficiaries holding...