Stories of denial of pension due to failure to link or authenticate Aadhaar
Ghosts! The very term is evocative. Widely perceived as parasitical and feeding off the human body, the term generates the strong unconscious reaction of wanting to get rid off them. The hard part though is to convince people that ghosts exist because otherwise they would not be too willing to Read more…
The UIDAI keeps denying that Aadhaar is secure. Biometics can't be bypassed, enrolment software can't be hacked, and so on. So I put together a quick list. This list is under construction. Keep checking for updates. April 2012: An enrolment agent was found to have issued 30,000 Aadhaar cards in Read more…
Frequent warnings by banks and police are apparently not the solution to combating debit/credit card fraud. The Hindu reports that Cyber Cell officials in Kerala's Kozhikode district are discovering three new cases every month on average. The victims are usually educated middle-class families or the elderly, and many are yet Read more…
Failure to link Aadhaar numbers has resulted in the termination of pensions for 10,767 people in Faridabad. These include pensions for old age, widows, divyangs, Laadli (girl child), orphans, non-school going children (under 18 years) and eunuchs. These pensions were terminated in September bringing the total number of pensioners down from 96,571 Read more…
The last few months have seen the cruel starvation deaths of at least four residents of Jharkhand - Santoshi Kumari, Ruplal Marandi, Premani Kunwar and Etwariya Devi. This is a direct result of the actions and inactions of the Government of Jharkhand and UIDAI. Clear evidence has been put forward Read more…
Airtel Payments Bank was found to be illegally creating accounts for users who authenticated their Aadhaars to link their mobile SIMs with their Aadhaar number. The newly created bank accounts were naturally linked to their Aadhaar, and their subsidy and other payments through the Aadhaar bridge ended up with the Read more…
While investigating the story of a 30 year old man with 60% disability who lost his Rs. 1000 pension because he couldn't get an Aadhaar in spite of his 62 year old widow mother taking him physically to get one several times, Times of India discovered that 53 thousand pensions Read more…
Etwariya Devi, age 67, widow, died of starvation in Sonpurwa village of Garhwa district’s Majhiaon block on December 25th, 2017, when glitches caused a failure in authentication for her daughter-in-law's Aadhaar with her fingerprints, making the family unable to procure food. Aadhaar failures had also disrupted her pension since October. Read more…
Report of fact finding into the death of Premani Kunwar Place of visit – Korta village, Danda Gram Panchayat, Danda block, Garhwa, Jharkhand Date of visit – 4-5 December 2017 Members of investigating team – Mithilesh Kumar, Jawahar Mehta, Ravinder Bhuiyan, Sakina, Sarfaraz, Siraj (on behalf of the Right to Read more…
Mohammed Abdul Khader Nakshbandi Aziz, employed at an SBI kiosk customer service point at Kummarwadi, Shaik Shabbir Hussain, a former e-seva operator and Md Aslam, a junior assistant with Telangana State Southern Power Distribution Company Limited in Nalgonda district downloaded leaked Aadhaar data from the internet and used it to Read more…