This photo taken on March 6, 2017, shows activists protesting against the government's decision to link free lunch meals for children at state-run schools with the national Aadhaar biometric cards. Pic/AFP

Even as the government promotes Aadhaar as an enabler to ensure that food and other subsidies reach the poor, a new report on Thursday said that a large number of people do not get food ration under the Public Distribution System (PDS) due to factors related to the biometric identification system.