Several months ago, someone came to record my details for the National Population Register. Then on July 28 she came again and said that I should go to a certain place within a couple of days to have my biometric data recorded. She gave me a piece of paper which said this was “mandatory” in view of such-and-such Act and so-and-so Rules.
On July 30, after I had had photographs taken of my face, irises and fingertips, I was given a paper called an “Acknowledgement/Resident Copy”. This bore at its top the logo of AADHAAR and the words “Unique Identification Authority of India”. There is no trace of “National Population Register”, the outfit to which I thought I was going.
Does everyone now work for Nandan Nilekani? What is the need for false pretences? And is this business not against the law?
Mukul Dube,
Delhi.