Thursday, March 13, 2014

5296 - How BJP’s Yashwant Sinha is wrong about ‘biometric’ National Population Register –Part XXX - Gopal Krishna - Money Life


GOPAL KRISHNA | 11/03/2014 12:50 PM |   
BJP seems to have accepted Aadhaar as irreversible and as a face saving stance, it will have citizens believe that it will not accept the UID number but will gladly do so if it is mentioned as national population register or NPR

In the animal kingdom, the rule is, eat or be eaten; in the human kingdom, define or be defined.
                                                                                   -Thomas Szasz in The Second Sin, 1974 
 
“Through a curious transposition peculiar to our times, it is innocence that is called upon to justify itself.”
                                                                                                                                                         -Albert Camus
 

When Yashwant Sinha headed Parliamentary Standing Committee on Finance (PSCF) inconsistently and insincerely recommended handing over of the data collected by Planning Commission’s Unique Identification Authority of India (UIDAI) for biometric number branded as Aadhaar to Home Ministry’s Registrar General of India (RGI) for biometric National Population Register (NPR), it appeared inadvertent and a result of lack of imagination. 

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