Tuesday, April 22, 2014
This has reference to 'Aadhaar: A huge waste of public money' (ADC, Apr.21) by Dr. Manish Kumar which says it all eloquently. The 'Aadhaar' project which, in the initial years, put several thousand citizens all over the country to a lot of agonising experience to get this all-important card, will rank as the worst misadsventure of its auhor, Nandan Nilekani, who pushed it though the citizens of India without any rhyme or reason and without adequate infrastructural facilities. When all other valid documents like the ration card, passport, voter identity card and PAN card were already available, there was absolutely no necessity whatsoever for subjecting India's millions to the gruelling experience of standing in long queues out in the open without any toilet or drinking water facilities for hours, often for nothing since only a limited number of forms were supplied every day then. I had to go three times and also had to take my ailing relative to the centre, making her walk up the stairs. And, after all these troubles, the Aadhaar card was not accepted in the banks which were asking for all other documents. This was indeed a monumental blunder by the UPA government that resulted in a colossal waste of public money.
— Dr. V. Subramanyan, Thane
— Dr. V. Subramanyan, Thane