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Cash transfer may hurt girls and kids, says Amartya Sen #UID

SANDEEP JOSHI, The Hindu Amartya Sen: “We should not accept corruption on some fatalistic ground that this is the way things are in our country.” TOPICS crime, law and justicecorruption & bribery economy, business and finance Eminent economist and Nobel… Continue Reading →

Aadhaar Card not mandatory for Income Certificate for EWS school admissions #UID

SPECIAL CORRESPONDENT, tHE hINDU, NEW DELHI, January 8, 2013 The Delhi Revenue Secretary and Divisional Commissioner on Monday issued orders to keep in abeyance till further instructions the requirement of Aadhaar Card for issuing Income Certificates to economically weaker section (EWS)… Continue Reading →

Glitches in Aadhaar cards enrolment- and pandora’s box opens :-P #UID

EK KA DO, EK KA DO :-p Anantpur: While lakhs of people are waiting for Aadhaar cards even though they got enroled one year ago, the agencies are sending Aadhaar cards second time for thousands of people for the same… Continue Reading →

IMMEDIATE RELEASE- Cash Transfers and UID: Essential Demands

      We support cash transfers such as old age pensions, widow pensions, maternity entitlements and scholarships. However, we oppose the government’s plan for accelerated mass conversion of welfare schemes to UID-driven cash transfers. This plan could cause havoc… 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 →

“Aadhaar” of Direct Cash Transfer is more of assumptions, less of ground-level realities #UID #MUSTREAD

14 DEC, 2012, The government announced that from January 2013, 51 districts of the country would be subjected to Aadhaar– based direct cash transfers (DCT). We need some basic answers before we get to term the initiative as a game-changer…. Continue Reading →

#Aadhar services to miss Jan 1 deadline-‘ yeh to hona hi tha ‘;-) #UID

  TNN | Dec 10, 2012,       JAIPUR: The pilot implementation of Aadhaar enabled services in the three selected districts of Ajmer, Udaipur and Alwar is set to miss the January 1, 2013 deadline as the enrollment of… Continue Reading →

#India’s Cash course- will it succeed ?

As the government gets ready to roll out its ambitious cash transfer of subsidies scheme on January 1, an on-the-ground report on how the experiments are working outVeenu Sandhu, Santosh Tiwari & Indulekha Aravind / New Delhi/ Bangalore Dec 08,… Continue Reading →

Tied to census,# Aadhaar enrolment stands still in UP #UID

    SURBHI KHYATI : Lucknow, Sat Dec 08 2012,  IE  03:36 hrs The Government of India wants to introduce Aadhaar-linked cash transfers, but the process of UID enrolment has been suspended in Uttar Pradesh for almost a year. The… Continue Reading →

S P Udayakumar- #FDI Anthem #mustshare

(With sincere apologies to Guru Rabindranath Tagore) [Please use the familiar national tune and think of the fake Gandhis when you sing.] Garmin Gatorade Lockheed Martin Bechtel Boeing Verizon Pepsi Subway GTech McDonald Dow Jones Universal Big Lots Viacom Honeywell… Continue Reading →

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