Friday, July 11, 2014

5667 - Will Nandan Nilekani be held accountable for violating service conduct rules and citizens’ rights? Part XXXVI - Gopal Krishna-Money Life



Nandan Nilekani, who was Chairman of UIDAI till 13 March 2014 had joined Indian National Congress on 9 March 2014 thus violating the service rules for government servants

Tolerably early in life I discovered that one of the unpardonable sins in the eyes of most people is for a man to go about unlabelled.

-TH Huxeley, a British biologist and a prominent defender  of Charles Darwin's theory of evolution

Supreme Court, in its order dated 28 April 2014, directed that the case filed by Justice KS Puttaswamy (retd), Major General Sudhir Vombatkere (retd) and others, against Planning Commission’s Unique Identification Authority of India (UIDAI), which has been given the mandate for labeling Indian residents with a 12-digit biometric identifier number be listed for hearing “in the month of July 2014.” It remains to be seen whether the new government will  bury the biometric identification schemes even before court hears the matter in July.