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Confusion over #Aadhaar and #NPR #UID #Biometrics

Bibek Debroy  , ET Thursday October 25, 2012, 03:46 PM We just went and got our biometry done for NPR (National Population Register).  Census enumerators had visited us earlier and before the appointed NPR dates, we got an enrolment form… Continue Reading →

UID Authority started work sans homework, says social activist #Aadhaar

Monday, 17 September 2012 14:31 HEMANTA KUMAR PRADHAN | BHUBANESWAR, Pioneer The Unique Identification Authority of India (UIDAI) had done no homework before starting its job,” said social activist Dr Usha Ramnathan in her speech in a debate on ‘Is… Continue Reading →

Nuclear Tuna and NPR’s Trivialization

May 31, 2012 · By Robert Alvarez NPR shouldn’t trivialize the risk of radioactive tuna from the Fukushima nuclear disaster. Yesterday, National Public Radio (NPR) ran a story asserting that cesium-137 from the Fukushima nuclear accident found in Bluefish tuna… Continue Reading →

Growing Mistrust of India’s Biometric ID Scheme

  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 →

Normal Baba, aspiring godman, raises second round of investment

New Delhi.  First Post –Normal Baba, an aspiring godman who claims to help people with his invisible “Third Arm”, has successfully received 15 crore rupees of investment from Banyan Capital, a venture capital firm funding promising godmen, tantriks, black-magicians etc. Normal… Continue Reading →

Budgetary allocation for Aadhar project is in contempt of Parliament

Civil society groups welcome the submission of a memorandum opposing Aadhaar and other anti-people policies to the prime minister along with a big truckload of signatures numbering 3.57 crore on March 14, says Gopal Krishna  The Union Budget’s allocation of… Continue Reading →

Immediate Press Release ( Hindi also ) – 3.57 crore signatures submitted to PM seeking scrapping of Aadhaar

    Press Release Budgetary Allocation for Aadhaar/NPR-UIDAI in Contempt of Parliament Both Aadhaar and NPR are security projects 3.57 crore signatures submitted to PM seeking scrapping of Aadhaar March 16, 2012 The Govt ignores the PSC of Finance 42nd… Continue Reading →

UIDAI and the textbook case study of how not to do it, one for the business schools

By- David Moss The Unique Identification Authority of India (UIDAI) came under attack. Its very existence was threatened. Naturally enough, UIDAI decided to defend itself. It’s worked. UIDAI survives for the moment. But theirs is a Pyrrhic victory. The UIDAI… Continue Reading →

Soni Sori’s letter to the Nation-( English and Hindi)

 03/02/2012-Soni Sori’s letter from Prison, she  asks questions to all the citizens of  India, Please answer her This if for all social workers intellectuals, NGOs, human rights organisations, women’s commission and citizens of India, an abused and helpless tribal woman,… Continue Reading →

In the hurry to meet targets, UIDAI is missing its goals

  Lost Identity- Prabha Jagannathan Feb1, 2012- The Week The division among economists and social activists over whether the Unique Identity (UID) programme, or Aadhaar, will streamline the government’s social sector and welfare programme roadmap or disrupt it seems to… Continue Reading →

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