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were always out of stock whenever she needed subsidised foodgrains offered under PDS. Parivartan obtained her ration records using RTI, and found that on paper, she had been receiving her full quota of foodgrains. To probe other such cases, Parivartan decided to obtain more such records. However, the
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163 crore. They claimed that the project would have hiked water tariffs ten-fold, thus effectively cutting off the water supply to the city's poor. The project was stalled as a result of
Parivartan's activism. The World Bank denied Parivartan's accusations, and criticised Kejriwal for "propagating
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