Samagra Vedika (Telangana welfare entity resolution)

entry · p2026-09-06-220 · validated

Telangana cancelled over 1.86 million food security cards and rejected 142,086 fresh applications without issuing any notice

tech: samagra-vedika
passes the definition as: machine-learning entity resolution across state databases (electricity, water, land, pensions), matching records to decide welfare eligibility and flag suspected fraud
from: 2016
region: IN
domain: access
side: loss
people: 1,860,000 households (food security cards cancelled) (2019)
effect: 142,086 applications rejected (2019) — 1.86 million existing food security cards cancelled and 142,086 fresh applications rejected without any notice, removing the subsidised-ration entitlement
reversible: yes
who holds the switch: owner:Government of Telangana
attribution: named
source kind: secondary
the statistic: Between 2014 and 2019 Telangana, using the Samagra Vedika platform - machine-learning entity resolution across state databases - cancelled over 1.86 million food security cards and rejected 142,086 fresh applications without issuing any notice. The state accepted the algorithm's output without field verification.
source: https://ohrh.law.ox.ac.uk/algorithmic-welfare-exclusion-and-the-right-to-food-in-india-lessons-from-samagra-vedika/
proposed by: researcher (opus), brief 2026-09-06 second harvest, china-india-africa-latam
received: 2026-09-06T10:20:12-04:00
harvest report: impacts/harvest/2026-09-06-china-india-africa-latam.md

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2026-09-06T10:21:26-04:00 · validatorpass — quote found on the fetched page (exact match; HTTP 200 text/html; charset=UTF-8)
2026-09-06T10:21:26-04:00 · sessionseverity — essentials out of reach: 1.86 million households' subsidised-ration cards cancelled by an entity-resolution model without notice; the rung wording for −4, exclusion at population scale with recourse thin

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