Aadhaar is voluntary and mandatory and compulsory at the same time. While technically no one can be forced to get an Aadhaar, the government and the UIDAI have been making necessary services and welfare conditional to enrolling for Aadhaar and linking them with an Aadhaar number, which leaves citizens with few alternatives to getting an Aadhaar made, if they want to hold bank accounts, phones, get rations or LPG subsidies and so on. While this is currently stayed by the Supreme Court and extended for welfare by the government, on the ground, essentials continue to be refused without an Aadhaar.
Union Minister of State for Home, Hansraj Ahir has said that the Center will look into sharing Aadhaar data with police for identifying first time offenders and dead bodies, reports PTI. He was speaking at the 19th All India Conference of Directors of Finger Prints Bureau in Hyderabad. Yesterday, PTI had Read more…
The NCRB Director, Ish Kumar has requested Hansraj Ahir, Union Minister of State for Home to provide access to Aadhaar data to the police, reports PTI. He was speaking at the 19th All India Conference of Directors of Finger Prints Bureau in Hyderabad Ahir also wants an "early intervention" by the Read more…
In what is a clear violation of a Supreme Court order that Aadhaar cannot be made mandatory for bank accounts till the case in the Supreme Court is concluded, the Finacle banking software used by banks requires Aadhaar in order to create bank accounts, reports Moneylife. The Supreme Court, in Read more…
ആധാര്‍ കേസില്‍ ഭരണഘടനാബെഞ്ച് രൂപീകരിക്കാതെ നവംബര്‍ മാസവും കടന്നുപോയി. 851 ദിവസങ്ങള്‍ പിന്നിടുന്നു, ഭരണഘടനാബെഞ്ച് രൂപീകരിക്കാന്‍ സുപ്രീംകോടതി തീരുമാനിച്ചിട്ട്. 2 വര്‍ഷവും 3 മാസവും 21 ദിവസവും. അവസാനമായി ആധാര്‍ കേസില്‍ കോടതി വാദം കേട്ടു എന്ന് പറയാവുന്നത് 2015 ആഗസ്ത് മാസത്തിലാണ്. രാജ്യത്തെ മുഴുവന്‍ ജനങ്ങളെയും ബാധിക്കുന്ന, നമ്മുടെ വ്യവസ്ഥിതിയുടെ തന്നെ ഭാഗധേയം നിര്‍ണയിക്കാന്‍ പോന്ന ഒരു ബൃഹത് പദ്ധതിയുടെ ഭരണഘടനാ സാധുതയാണ് പരിശോധിക്കപ്പെടേണ്ടത്. 2015ലെ വിധിയ്ക്ക് വിരുദ്ധമായി Read more…
A document from the UCO bank leaked on Twitter seems to be setting a target of 16 enrolments daily that must be met by the operators. @gautambhatia88 bank employees are being harassed in the name of Aadhar. There are daily targets in bank for Aadhar enrollment and Aadhar updation and Read more…
The Lokniti Foundation is a secretive organisation with no website, no presence on social media, and no public list of trustees. Their registered office is a sealed building in south Delhi's outskirts. According to its brochure, it is a non-profit established "with the primary objective to improve the quality of Read more…
(Concern raised in this tweet by data security researcher Srinivas Kodali) In its Regional Conference on Child Marriage held in Bhubaneswar, Odisha, earlier this year, the National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) brought out recommendations for implementation by various state governments "so that the menace of child marriage is curbed and Read more…
The Supreme Court's Constitution Bench grilled the government's lawyers on Aadhaar's potential to prevent bank fraud, reports The Economic Times. During the ongoing hearings to determine the Constitutional validity of Aadhaar, the Bench countered the government's claim that linking the unique identification number with bank accounts had helped curb black Read more…
Even as the Union of India vociferously insists in the Supreme Court that no denial of entitlements happens due to a lack of Aadhaar, the reality on the ground is different. The latest attrocity in the name of preventing leakages is the denial of nutrition to those idenfitied as malnourished Read more…
The thoughtless implementation of Aadhaar has led countless operators to make investment in equipment (they had to purchase equipment - it was not provided by UIDAI for conducting enrolments) that is very specific to Aadhaar work, and the abrupt discontinuation of contracts, because UIDAI belatedly realizes that data being collected Read more…