New Delhi: The government admitted Wednesday that a large number of Aadhaar cards had not been delivered by post offices.
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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
Thursday, February 28, 2013
3093 - Government admits problems over Aadhaar
New Delhi: The government admitted Wednesday that a large number of Aadhaar cards had not been delivered by post offices.
3092 - Aadhaar numbers sought
The schemes of the EPFO involving transfer of benefits to beneficiaries have been identified for implementation of direct cash transfers from January 1, 2013.
The Organisation has asked the employers to maintain the information in excel format till the facility to capture/upload information on employer portal is made available.
It has also requested the employers to furnish the core banking account number of all the contributing members.
3091 - India’s Aadhaar a step to ensure financial inclusion: FATF
3090 - Voter registration centers in Delhi to add Aadhaar enrollment
3089 - Registration for Aadhaar is just a phone call away
3088 - NAC against making Aadhaar mandatory
Wednesday, February 27, 2013
3087 - New Year Aadhaar of embarrassment
OUR BUREAU
Jan. 1: Complete confusion ruled the much hyped inauguration of the Centre’s ambitious direct cash transfer scheme via Aadhaar-linked bank accounts today in all the four pilot districts — Ranchi, Ramgarh, Seraikela-Kharsawan and Hazaribagh — with one clocking a zero success rate.
Across India, too, Aadhaar (literally foundation in Hindi) was found to be on shaky ground. Instead of the stipulated 51 pilot districts, cash transfer could begin only in 20. As of now, Jharkhand’s quartet alone corners 20 per cent of districts under Aadhaar, making the state a pilot showpiece for arguably the biggest public welfare of UPA II that proved to be casebook studies of bureaucratic mess and technology gone wrong.
For instance, in industrial belt Seraikela-Kharsawan, 20 pregnant women were left disappointed. Till the filing of this report at 5.40pm, not a single beneficiary could get direct cash transfer. In Ramgarh and Hazaribagh, officials claimed 36 per cent Aadhaar enrolment rate but could not say how many actual cash transfers took place today. In Ranchi, cash was transferred directly to 244 beneficiaries of National Child Labour Project and 99 of National Merit-cum-Means into their bank accounts through their Aadhaar cards as a symbolic start to the central scheme.
But even in Ranchi, against the original target of 29 lakh Ranchi district residents, only 15 lakh so far have received Aadhaar. The deadline to cover all 1.1 lakh beneficiaries of schemes has been now extended to January 28.
In Seraikela-Kharsawan, network problems and bureaucratic preoccupation with chief minister Arjun Munda’s visit were equally to blame for the flop show. The target of 20 was modest and each lady was to get Rs 1,400. Seraikela-Kharsawan DC K.N. Jha said he asked the district civil surgeon to start direct cash transfer scheme with Janani Suraksha Yojana as this was the only one for which they had received cash allotment.
But the cash transfer process began after 4pm as the babus were busy the whole day with Munda’s tribute to Kharsawan martyrs. Then, the lead bank (Bank of India) technical official apparently failed to get the real time gross settlement (RTGS) process in motion due to the network snag. Under RTGS, transfer of money for security takes place from one bank to another in real time.
In sole passable performer Ranchi, though the launch event hosted by district administration was a bland affair without any beneficiary, the efficiency was visible. Deputy commissioner Vinay Kumar Choubey emailed scanned copies of the cheque and a beneficiary list to Ranchi district’s leading Bank of India.
Original cheques and list were handed over to the bank representative in person. The entire process took less than 15 minutes, after which Choubey was told that the due sums had been credited in respective personal bank accounts.
While a total payment of Rs 1,09,800 was made towards the National Child Labour Project, youngsters under National Merit-cum-Means Scholarship got Rs 500 each.
“Children are happy to know they are among the first beneficiaries of the central direct cash transfer scheme. Some said they would soon withdraw money from their account,” said Dr Ira, principal of National Child Labour Project School in Hindpiri, Ranchi city.
The school has 50 students — all of whom enrolled under Aadhaar — who got cash transferred directly.
“This scheme will bring about revolutionary changes in Jharkhand,” an elated deputy commissioner Choubey told The Telegraph. “Our January target is transferring cash directly via Aadhaar to bank accounts of 1.1 lakh beneficiaries in the 13 out of 34 schemes currently running in our district. Completing their UID enrolment in the next few days is a major challenge before us,” he said, adding that from January 4, special camps would be set up in different schools and colleges for Aadhaar enrolment. Ranchi district has 323 enrolment machines in 53 camps.
But glitches are many. “At least 40 per cent impression is mandatory, but here we usually get barely 20 per cent of most candidates,” said a senior official engaged in the enrolment process. Whether it is due to faded fingerprints in work-worn hands or faulty machines is open to question.
In both Ramgarh and Hazaribagh, officials said glibly that 36 per cent target of Aadhaar enrolment had been achieved. Hazaribagh has to implement direct benefits transfer in 15 schemes with 21,500 beneficiaries, whereas Ramgarh in seven with 8,000 people.
Ramgarh, which received the National Aadhaar Governance Award, cut a sorry figure. “I am not sure of the figures but some have definitely happened,” said deputy commissioner Amitabh Kaushal.
A highly placed official in Hazaribagh refused to comment, only saying the deadline was extended till March 1. “Off the record, it is a mess,” he said.
North Chotanagpur Commissionerate commissioner Nitin Madan Kulkarni told The Telegraph that wages under different schemes including MGNREGS and Samajik Suraksha Pension were going directly into accounts of beneficiaries but had not been linked to Aadhaar yet. But he refused to entertain the question — why the delay.
Ramgarh at least knows how many people — 5,500 — have Aadhaar cards. Hazaribagh doesn’t. Seraikela-Kharsawan has at least completed formalities for 11,000 tribal and OBC students to receive scholarships and are awaiting funds allotment.
Babus also have an excuse ready. “The central government exerted political pressure to start Aadhaar in a hurry,” said a bureaucrat not wishing to be named, in an indirect admission that they weren’t ready.
In Garhwa today, Union rural development minister Jairam Ramesh said he would exhort Unique Identification Authority of India (UIDAI) to speed up Aadhaar enrolment. “Direct cash transfer scheme is related to Aadhaar. In some districts, the enrolment process is slow. I will speak to the UIDAI authorities,” Ramesh, who ended his three-day visit of Maoist-hit Latehar, Palamau and Garhwa districts covering about 700 km to and from Ranchi, said.
Back to basics. On today’s glitch, Seraikela-Kharsawan civil surgeon Shiv Shankar said: “We shortlisted 4,393 beneficiaries under Janani Suraksha Yojana for 2012-13 fiscal. These 20 beneficiaries had all papers like Aadhaar card, bank passbook and others. But we failed to get cash transferred to their accounts as the network tripped. We will distribute them tomorrow morning.”
Tomorrow is another day.
3086 - Morpho (Safran) signs agreement with the State Bank of India during official visit of French President François Hollande to India
3085 - European Commission Selects Consortium of Accenture, Morpho and HP to Maintain EU Visa Information and Biometric Matching Systems
HP: Anneleen Holleweg, + 32 475804006, anneleen.holleweg@hp.com
Morpho: Christelle Kinkead, + 33 0 1 58 11 87 44, christelle.kinkead@morpho.com
3084 - NAC members raise concerns over direct benefit transfer scheme
3083 - Railways to use Aadhar database for passenger validation
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Presenting his maiden Railway Budget 2013-14 in the Parliament today,
Pawan Kumar Bansal, Minister for Railways, Government of India, said that
Railways will use the Aadhar database for bookings and validation of passengers,
and that special air-conditioned coaches would be introduced in select Shatabdi
and Rajdhani trains with commensurate fares.
The Minister added that bookings on the Indian Railway Catering and Tourism
Corporation (IRCTC) website would be strengthened with an e-ticketing system
to prevent delays. Also, internet booking hours would be increased and e-booking
would be made available on mobile phones.
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3082 - हाथों की लकीरें मिट गईं तो कैसे बने आधार कार्ड?
Tuesday, February 26, 2013
3081 - Over 8000 eunuchs received Aadhaar numbers in 2012
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