By Manoj Kumar BEELAHERI, India | Thu Oct 25, 2012 2:15pm IST (Reuters) – India is shaking up the way it gets billions of welfare dollars to the poor with a plan that could one day reshape the economy and tackle graft… Continue Reading →
By Gopal Krishna 19 October, 2012 Countercurrents.org New Delhi: Biometric data based 12 digit Unique Identification (UID)-Aadhaar Number linked welfare schemes is being bulldozed with 2014 elections in mind with the ulterior motive of altering voting… Continue Reading →
Photo courtesy- G . N Mohan, Bangalore P Sainath‘s remarks at the public meeting organised recently by the Institute of Defence Studies and Analysis: (He says, at the end of 45 minutes, that he hasn’t yet touched upon a whole… Continue Reading →
JULY 27, 2012 | BY REBECCA BOWE In Israel, a heated debate is underway about whether Israel’s Interior Ministry will move ahead with the creation of a governmental biometric database containing digital fingerprints and facial photographs, which would be linked to “smart” national… Continue Reading →
By MediaNama on Jun 22nd, 2012 | Nandan Nilekani-led Unique Identification Authority of India (UIDAI) and Department of Electronics and Information & Technology (DEIT) has raised objections to the Home minister P Chidambaram’s Resident Identity Card (RIC) project, under the government’s National Population… Continue Reading →
Dear Fellow Citizens of India, On the occasion of our Parliament, the pinnacle of democratic governance, celebrating its 60th anniversary, our hard earned democracy is being ruthlessly repressed and violently suppressed. Within the accelerated race towards ‘destructive development’ and… Continue Reading →
MAY 4, 2012 | BY REBECCA BOWE, In India, a massive effort is underway to collect biometric identity information for each of the country’s 1.2 billion people. The incredible plan, dubbed the “mother of all e-governance projects” by the Economic Times, has… Continue Reading →
Author(s): Latha Jishnu, Jyotika Sood, Down to Earth Issue: May 15, 2012 Biometric-based unique identity or Aadhaar is leading to huge problems for people working for the rural employment guarantee scheme and for others receiving welfare benefits. Not only have enrolments been done… Continue Reading →
Mahesh Buddi, TNN | Apr 27, 2012 HYDERABAD: Raising serious security issues over Aadhaar cards, an enrolment agent has processed 30,000 unique indentity cards (ID) within a span of just six months in the Old City. Also, among them 800… Continue Reading →
Published: Friday, Apr 20, 2012, 9:00 IST By Yogesh Pawar | Place: Mumbai | Agency: DNA Professor Edgar Whitley Shraddha Bhargava | DNA After security concerns scaled new highs post 9/11, the UK government decided to implement a national identity project. Following… Continue Reading →
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