By Pramod Thomas, Sucheth P R and Shalet Jimmy
Published: 10th February 2014 10:09 AM
Last Updated: 10th February 2014 10:13 AM
Aadhaar Pangs
Aadhaar and LPG have been hogging the headlines nowadays. Though the pandemonium in connection with linking Aadhaar number with LPG connection and bank account has come to a temporary halt, the issue is still burning. During this time a top official of one of the oil companies called a press conference. He detailed about the advantages of linking Aadhaar number with LPG connections. He was so sure that the people in Kerala being highly literate will take it as a prestigious issue and soon the state would achieve 100 percent Aadhaar compliance. Moving a step ahead he even wanted to show how cool it is to carry the Aadhaar number with him. He opened the purse and showed his ‘card’. Since it was a photostat copy reporters asked why he is keeping a copy instead of the original one. “I applied for Aadhaar but didn’t get it. So I took a print-out of my Adhaar from the website,” he said. That summed up the whole mess created by Aadhaar.