Aadhaar stories pertaining to “ghosts” – fake identities of people who don’t actually exist except on paper. This archive contains both kinds of “Aadhaar ghost” stories. Where the UIDAI declares perfectly real people to be ghosts because they haven’t provided an Aadhaar number or their Aadhaar did not authenticate, as well as people who bypassed UIDAI’s security to create fake Aadhaar numbers to deliberately create ghosts as a part of a scam.
The Direct Benefit Transfer pilot for the Public Distribution system in Ranchi’s Nagri block in Jharkhand resulted in widespread exclusion and denial of food to some of the most needy in the state, as reported Read more…
This January, HRD Minister Prakash Javdekar had made a claim that 80,000 ghost lecturers had been found due to linking of Aadhaar. “So far only 85% teachers have given their Aadhaar numbers and we have Read more…
5 children from a single class of of 23 students in a single government school in Amadagur, Andhra Pradesh will not get their scholarships this year. They have Aadhaar cards. But the Aadhaar cards have wrong Read more…
The ministry of HRD recently made a claim that 80,000 “ghost teachers” were identified because of Aadhaar. HRD Minister Prakash Javdekar had made this stunning claim: “There are certain ‘ghost’ teachers who use proxy methods Read more…
One claim made about Aadhaar often is that it “eliminates ghosts”. But does it? No. In fact, Aadhaar is among the easiest ways to create ghosts and it cannot prevent existing ghosts, because it uses Read more…
Ashwathama By Ramu Ramanathan Recited by Denzil Smith I met Ashwathama At Mama Kane’s Swacha Uphargriha He says Bhai, the times are bad The Bharamastra fell in Vidharbha 12 years of famine in the region In his Read more…