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 by the Right To Food Campaign in February this year. Aadhaar’s ghosts, that the government 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 found 80,000 cases in which lecturers were listed as employed with more than one institutes,” 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 data entered and even on correction, the new card still contains wrong data. As a 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 and are apparently teaching at multiple places as full-time employees. After the introduction of Aadhaar, 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 the same documentation as proof. For example, if a person has two identities – his 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 horse-voice, he describes the suicides Can I get food grains, sugar, kerosene for my people? Read more…