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UID/Aadhaar, a medicine possibly worse than the disease #mustshare

Moneylife Foundation’s seminar on MONEYLIFE DIGITAL TEAM | 12/01/2013 04:07 PM The Aadhaar project was supposed to eliminate corruption in welfare schemes and provide the poor with an identity. It is now, however, clearly spreading into areas that dangerously intrude into our… Continue Reading →

India’s Cash Transfers for the Poor Face Early Hurdles #UID #Aadhaar

      By AMOL SHARMA   DOHAKATU, India—Officials in this impoverished eastern Indian village have a message for local residents: the government wants to give you a bank account and plop money in it—now.   India is embarking on… Continue Reading →

UIDAI cancels 3.84 lakh fake #Aadhaar numbers #UID #facepalm

    Chetan Chauhan   New Delhi, December 25, 2012, HT       Some have managed to beat the so-called unbeatable Unique Identification (UID) system and got fake Aadhaar numbers generated raising security concerns over UPA‘s new UID based… Continue Reading →

Unique ID is dangerous for you; it should be scrapped #Aadhaar

    Dec 18, 2012, The First Post   By Yogi Aggarwal The government’s controversial scheme of giving a unique 12-digit identification (ID) number to identify a resident (and not necessarily a citizen) of this country got a massive leg… Continue Reading →

Guinea pigs for technology #UID #Aaadhaar

Cash transfer would be a test for Aadhaar but the poor would pay the price Sreelatha Menon / New Delhi Dec 16, 2012,, business standdar   Technology can be good. But should it be first tested on the poor, who… Continue Reading →

Monograph – #UID is not yours- #Aadhaar #privacy #Identity #mustshare

Government and UIDAI vigorously promote the UID scheme. They claim various benefits, like reduction in corruption, euphemistically termed – “Leakages”, in government’s welfare measures. these claims are made based on conjecture, whim, feelings, and perhaps, some hope. A huge scheme,… Continue Reading →

Banking hiccups are the biggest challenge for direct transfer of subsidy #Aadhar #UID

Demanding draft , The Week By Soumik Dey Story Dated: Tuesday, December 4, 2012 14:30 hrs IST Call for change: A tribal woman shows her ration card to get coupons to purchase subsidised rice. AP Photo The villagers of Kotkasim… Continue Reading →

Aadhar card doesn’t have date of birth #wtfnews #joke

By Vijay Pinjarkar, TNN | Dec 4, 2012, 07.50 AM IST NAGPUR: The unique identification number (UID), renamed as Aadhar, was supposed to be one of the documents to eliminate submission of multiple papers for identification but due to absence of date of… Continue Reading →

Aadhaar-NPR duplication: A pain, and expensive too

Aloke Tikku, Hindustan Times New Delhi, November 30, 2012 Not only will nearly 600 million people have to queue up twice to enroll for the Aadhaar number and the National Population Register (NPR), they will also have to foot the… Continue Reading →

Of Aadhaar/UID , cash transfers and red tape

  For a system geared to control and command, cash transfers pose an implementation challenge   Sandipan Deb , livemint.com        First Published: Thu, Nov 29 2012. 02 19 PM IST   Respected prime minister ji, I am manager of bank… Continue Reading →

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