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…
