AADHAAR RELATED ARTICLES: 2713 - Manmohan to launch 'Aadhaar Enabled Service Delivery' today on the 2nd anniversary of Adhaar Card

In 2009, I became extremely concerned with the concept of Unique Identity for various reasons. Connected with many like minded highly educated people who were all concerned.

On 18th May 2010, I started this Blog to capture anything and everything I came across on the topic. This blog with its million hits is a testament to my concerns about loss of privacy and fear of the ID being misused and possible Criminal activities it could lead to.

In 2017 the Supreme Court of India gave its verdict after one of the longest hearings on any issue. I did my bit and appealed to the Supreme Court Judges too through an On Line Petition.

In 2019 the Aadhaar Legislation has been revised and passed by the two houses of the Parliament of India making it Legal. I am no Legal Eagle so my Opinion carries no weight except with people opposed to the very concept.

In 2019, this Blog now just captures on a Daily Basis list of Articles Published on anything to do with Aadhaar as obtained from Daily Google Searches and nothing more. Cannot burn the midnight candle any longer.

"In Matters of Conscience, the Law of Majority has no place"- Mahatma Gandhi

Ram Krishnaswamy

Sydney, Australia.

Aadhaar

The UIDAI has taken two successive governments in India and the entire world for a ride. It identifies nothing. It is not unique. The entire UID data has never been verified and audited. The UID cannot be used for governance, financial databases or anything. It’s use is the biggest threat to national security since independence. – Anupam Saraph 2018

When I opposed Aadhaar in 2010 , I was called a BJP stooge. In 2016 I am still opposing Aadhaar for the same reasons and I am told I am a Congress die hard. No one wants to see why I oppose Aadhaar as it is too difficult. Plus Aadhaar is FREE so why not get one ? Ram Krishnaswamy

First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win.-Mahatma Gandhi

In matters of conscience, the law of the majority has no place.Mahatma Gandhi

“The invasion of privacy is of no consequence because privacy is not a fundamental right and has no meaning under Article 21. The right to privacy is not a guaranteed under the constitution, because privacy is not a fundamental right.” Article 21 of the Indian constitution refers to the right to life and liberty -Attorney General Mukul Rohatgi

“There is merit in the complaints. You are unwittingly allowing snooping, harassment and commercial exploitation. The information about an individual obtained by the UIDAI while issuing an Aadhaar card shall not be used for any other purpose, save as above, except as may be directed by a court for the purpose of criminal investigation.”-A three judge bench headed by Justice J Chelameswar said in an interim order.

Legal scholar Usha Ramanathan describes UID as an inverse of sunshine laws like the Right to Information. While the RTI makes the state transparent to the citizen, the UID does the inverse: it makes the citizen transparent to the state, she says.

Good idea gone bad
I have written earlier that UID/Aadhaar was a poorly designed, unreliable and expensive solution to the really good idea of providing national identification for over a billion Indians. My petition contends that UID in its current form violates the right to privacy of a citizen, guaranteed under Article 21 of the Constitution. This is because sensitive biometric and demographic information of citizens are with enrolment agencies, registrars and sub-registrars who have no legal liability for any misuse of this data. This petition has opened up the larger discussion on privacy rights for Indians. The current Article 21 interpretation by the Supreme Court was done decades ago, before the advent of internet and today’s technology and all the new privacy challenges that have arisen as a consequence.

Rajeev Chandrasekhar, MP Rajya Sabha

“What is Aadhaar? There is enormous confusion. That Aadhaar will identify people who are entitled for subsidy. No. Aadhaar doesn’t determine who is eligible and who isn’t,” Jairam Ramesh

But Aadhaar has been mythologised during the previous government by its creators into some technology super force that will transform governance in a miraculous manner. I even read an article recently that compared Aadhaar to some revolution and quoted a 1930s historian, Will Durant.Rajeev Chandrasekhar, Rajya Sabha MP

“I know you will say that it is not mandatory. But, it is compulsorily mandatorily voluntary,” Jairam Ramesh, Rajya Saba April 2017.

August 24, 2017: The nine-judge Constitution Bench rules that right to privacy is “intrinsic to life and liberty”and is inherently protected under the various fundamental freedoms enshrined under Part III of the Indian Constitution

"Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the World; indeed it's the only thing that ever has"

“Arguing that you don’t care about the right to privacy because you have nothing to hide is no different than saying you don’t care about free speech because you have nothing to say.” -Edward Snowden

In the Supreme Court, Meenakshi Arora, one of the senior counsel in the case, compared it to living under a general, perpetual, nation-wide criminal warrant.

Had never thought of it that way, but living in the Aadhaar universe is like living in a prison. All of us are treated like criminals with barely any rights or recourse and gatekeepers have absolute power on you and your life.

Announcing the launch of the # BreakAadhaarChainscampaign, culminating with events in multiple cities on 12th Jan. This is the last opportunity to make your voice heard before the Supreme Court hearings start on 17th Jan 2018. In collaboration with @no2uidand@rozi_roti.

UIDAI's security seems to be founded on four time tested pillars of security idiocy

1) Denial

2) Issue fiats and point finger

3) Shoot messenger

4) Bury head in sand.

God Save India

Friday, December 28, 2012

2713 - Manmohan to launch 'Aadhaar Enabled Service Delivery' today on the 2nd anniversary of Adhaar Card

Manmohan to launch 'Aadhaar Enabled Service Delivery' today on the 2nd anniversary of Adhaar Card

New Delhi, Sat, 20 Oct 2012

On the second anniversary of Unique Identity Card (UID) card (also known as Adhaar Card), the Prime Minister of India Manmohan Singh, will launch 'Aadhaar Enabled Service Delivery' in Dudu, Rajasthan giving boost to government's ambitious project.

Through this service, the UID cardholder can take the benefit of various government schemes, as government can correctly recognize the actual benefits by tracing the Aadhar card number.

PM will deliver the 21st crore Aadhar card to a resident of Dudu village.

"I thank Prime Minister Dr. Manmohan Singh and UPA Chairperson Sonia Gandhi for their guidance and unstinted support for the Aadhaar project. I am also grateful to Finance Minister P. Chidambaram for his support in leveraging Aadhaar as a means for financial inclusion," Unique Identification Authority of India (UIDAI) chairman Nandan Nilekani told a press conference here today.

"Aadhaar as the foundation of electronic transfer of benefits to beneficiaries of various social sector schemes should yield significant benefits" he added.

The government is rolling out Aadhaar Enabled Service Delivery initiatives in 51 districts across the country. Aadhaar- enabled applications will be used for making pension payments, MNREGA payments, PDS distribution and scholarship and other payments.

"We are very excited about the future of Aadhaar, given the fact that we are about to launch Aadhaar Enabled Service Delivery. Aadhaar is an online identity platform that can be accessed in real-time for authenticating beneficiaries and can be adapted by various user agencies, which creates scope to dramatically improve the manner in which social sector schemes are administered," said UIDAI Director General and Mission Director R.S. Sharma, while speaking on the occasion.

The launch of Aadhaar Enabled Service Delivery will be in the presence of UPA chairperson Sonia Gandhi, Rajasthan Chief Minister Ashok Gehlot, Finance Minister P. Chidambaram, Planning Commission Deputy Chairman Montek Singh Ahluwalia, Minister of State for Planning, Science and Technology, Earth Sciences Dr. Ashwani Kumar and Minister of State for Communications and Information Technology Sachin Pilot.

On the occasion of the launch, ongoing Aadhaar Enabled Service Delivery pilots of PDS in Kakinada, East Godavari district of Andhra Pradesh; Social Security payment in Aurangabad, Maharashtra; LPG cylinders delivery in Mysore, Karnataka; MNREGS payment in Ramgarh, Jharkhand and Old Age Pension payments in West Tripura district of Tripura will be telecast live.

The Prime Minister will also be presenting the Aadhaar Governance Awards and the Aadhaar Excellence Awards.

In the past two years, the UIDAI has worked hard to make this vision come true. During the first phase of enrolments, UIDAI with the help of its Registrars and other stakeholders, managed to enroll 20 crore residents well before the set deadline.

This has made Aadhaar the world's largest biometric-based identity database. Having concluded 20 crore enrolments, UIDAI was given the mandate to enroll a further 40 crore enrolments by 2014.

--With ANI Inputs--