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In 2009, I became extremely concerned with the concept of Unique Identity for various reasons. Connected with many like minded highly educated people who were all concerned.

On 18th May 2010, I started this Blog to capture anything and everything I came across on the topic. This blog with its million hits is a testament to my concerns about loss of privacy and fear of the ID being misused and possible Criminal activities it could lead to.

In 2017 the Supreme Court of India gave its verdict after one of the longest hearings on any issue. I did my bit and appealed to the Supreme Court Judges too through an On Line Petition.

In 2019 the Aadhaar Legislation has been revised and passed by the two houses of the Parliament of India making it Legal. I am no Legal Eagle so my Opinion carries no weight except with people opposed to the very concept.

In 2019, this Blog now just captures on a Daily Basis list of Articles Published on anything to do with Aadhaar as obtained from Daily Google Searches and nothing more. Cannot burn the midnight candle any longer.

"In Matters of Conscience, the Law of Majority has no place"- Mahatma Gandhi

Ram Krishnaswamy

Sydney, Australia.

Aadhaar

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

Saturday, February 7, 2015

7336 - 91 percent households with LPG connection have bank account - Niti Central

91 percent households with LPG connection have bank account

FEB 06, 2015

NITI PTI BOT

Madurai, Feb 5 (PTI) Seeking dismissal of a petition against modified direct benefit transfer scheme for domestic LPG supply, Government today told the Madras High Court that 91 per cent of households (with LPG connection) had bank accounts and efforts were being taken to cover the remaining.

A bench comprising Chief Justice S K Kaul and Justice S Tamilvanan of the Madurai Bench of the court posted the matter for hearing to February 26.

In a counter, Ministry of Petroleum and Natural Gas Under Secretary A Ushabala said banks would hold special camps at their branches nearest to the LPG distributors for opening accounts for Direct Benefit Transfer of LPG (DBTL) beneficiaries.

There should not be any problem for the LPG consumers to start bank accounts, as contested by the petitioner, she said.

She also said the scheme’s two goals were efficiency and transparency in subsidy administration.

Already one crore connections had been blocked for failure to meet the department’s Know Your Customer (KYC) norms, saving recurring subsidy to the tune of Rs 3,948 crore per year.

The counter said the Modified Benefit Transfer of LPG (MBTL) for LPG subsidy had been introduced as the consumers would not require Aadhaar card for the present.

Almost all the consumers in Tamil Nadu would have bank account in a short span.

Even at places where there were no banks, special desks would be set up to collect applications for account opening.

She also pointed out that under the Pradhan Mantri Jan Dhan Yojana programme, 9.47 crore accounts had been opened in the country and of them 6.98 crore were zero-balance accounts, indicating there was no need for the poor people to pay money for starting account.

The counter also said KYC and de-duplication process prior to release of new connection had prevented eight to ten per cent of duplicate PG connections.

The Modified Direct Benefit Transfer of LPG (MDBTL) system was introduced only to weed out duplicate and ineligible connections.

It enabled achieve two goals — efficiency and transparency in subsidy administration.

Even the original Aadhaar card linked subsidy transfer helped the governemnt detect one per cent duplicate connection among the 4.2 crore Addhaar card holders with LPG.

The orginal DBTL scheme has been kept in abeyance and was being reviewed by a committee headed by Prof S G Dhande, of IIT-Kanpur.

The official sought to dismiss the petition, filed by one S M Ananthamurugan, who sought a direction from the court to the ministry not to take steps to implement the DBTL system and Bank account based domestic LPG gas connection and supply of refill gas cylinders.

PTI

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