ROLI SRIVASTAVA | Workers rescued from bonded labour in India will be unable to access compensation because the government has linked the benefit to the Aadhar card. Workers rescued from bonded labour in India will be unable to access compensation… Continue Reading →
Placing conditions on access to food entitlements is not a marker of a welfare state. The recent notification by the government mandating the possession of an Aadhaar number for receiving benefits under the Mid-Day Meal Scheme has created a justifiable… Continue Reading →
Asad Ashraf | New Delhi Representational image (Photo: Getty Images) The recent announcement by the Human Resource Development Ministry to link Aadhaar card with various government programmes has caused much ire among activists working on legal entitlements. Such activists working… Continue Reading →
Government is treating people like Big Data. ANGSHUKANTA CHAKRABORTY If the Supreme Court of India is anything to go by – and it is the highest jurisprudential body in the country – the unique identity (UID), or Aadhaar, is not mandatory…. Continue Reading →
Going online was supposed to clean up and smoothen functioning of government schemes like the rural job guarantee scheme MGNREGS. But experience from Jharkhand’s tribal districts shows that besides the chronic lack of connectivity, a brand new system of corruption has emerged…. Continue Reading →
IS A DEEP STATE AT WORK TO STEAL DIGITAL INDIA? Aadhaar Hacked Part I Sameer Kochhar, Chairman, Skoch Group, Given that Indian economy is fast becoming digital and from opening a bank account, to making financial transactions, for every facility,… Continue Reading →
The enhancement of state powers without control or transparency is not being done against our wishes by Pratap Bhanu Mehta | The writer points out that the more serious issue involves the conversion of Aadhaar from a tool of citizen… Continue Reading →
Feb 6, 2017 Making Aadhaar cards mandatory under MGNREGS SHRI D. RAJA: Will the Minister of RURAL DEVELOPMENT be pleased to state: (a) whether Government is considering a proposal to make Aadhaar cards mandatory for the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural… Continue Reading →
GOPAL KRISHNA COMMENTS While responding to a request for the urgent hearing in the matter of ‘biometric information’ based e-identity and 12-digit biometric unique identification (UID)/Aadhaar number related projects, when a three-judge Supreme Court bench headed by Chief Justice Jagdish… Continue Reading →
UID/Aadhaar-based surveillance does not end with the collection of fingerprints and iris scan, it goes quite beyond it and poses a lethal threat to the idea of India, says Gopal Krishna. Illustration: Dominic Xavier/Rediff.com While responding to a request for… Continue Reading →
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