AADHAAR RELATED ARTICLES: 10376 - CM FIAT TO DISPLAY AADHAAR PICS OF TEACHERS IN SCHOOLS

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

Thursday, September 8, 2016

10376 - CM FIAT TO DISPLAY AADHAAR PICS OF TEACHERS IN SCHOOLS - Daily Pioneer

CM FIAT TO DISPLAY AADHAAR PICS OF TEACHERS IN SCHOOLS

Wednesday, 31 August 2016 | PNS | Ranchi | in Ranchi

In a bid to check practice of hiring locals for replacing teachers posted in schools in remote areas, Chief Minister Raghubar Das on Tuesday directed all Deputy Commissioners to ensure that Aadhaar-photographs of all the teachers posted in a particular school gets displayed there within a month. Das was speaking at Suchna Bhawan here during a Seedhi Baat Programme.

“All the DCs will ask their DSEs to ensure that the Aadhaar photographs of the teachers are displayed in that school within a month. It will enable students as well as their parents to know about the teachers who are posted in that particular school,” said Das. There are reports that some of the teachers posted in remote areas have hired locals from the nearby villages as their replacements by paying them minimal amount of Rs 5 - 6 thousand or so while they live at some other places, he added. “Teaching work is extremely getting stalled in these schools due to such practices rampant in remote villages,” said the CM. Salaries of teachers must be stopped, who fail to do so in a month’s time, he added.

“Not only that, jail inmates should also be connected with Aadhaar,” the CM said.

The matter was raised by one Gopikrishna Verma of Giridih who complained that children of Harodih Utkramit Madhya Vidyalaya were not getting the facilities provided by the State Government.

“The school timing has also been shortened to 1 pm from 10 AM against the actual timing of 8 am to 2 pm,” said Verma. Despite the fact that villagers made several complaints at the block and district level, no action was taken against anybody, he said.

The Chief Minister also directed Gumla DC to ensure that not a single girl gets trapped by the mediators for exploitation.

“Arrange employment for them in Gumla only and also arrest those persons who are indulged in trafficking of these poor girls,” said the CM. He also passed a message to these girls that they need not go outside the state as they will be provided employment in the here only.

Das also appealed to Lalo Kumari, who had come to lodge her complaint with the CM, to expose those who are indulging in this business of trafficking. He directed Gumla Police to take immediate action against the persons whom Lalo Devi has named in her complaint.

The Chief Minister during Seedhi Baat also provided immediate relief of Rs 1 lakh to Chinta Devi, wife of late Vipta Ram who died back in the year 1997 but the family, was yet to get their dues from the state government. Ram was a BHALCO employee.

When the CM enquired about it, he was told that matter was related to Bihar Government, yet they were talking to the officials in Bihar in this regard. Looking at the monitory conditions of the Chinta Devi, the CM gave her an immediate relief of Rs 1 lakh.

The CM also directed Saraikela-Kharsawan SP to look into the murder case of Uttam Kumar, a student of NIC Jamshedpur, again and reinvestigate the case from the beginning. Das ensured the complainant that a high level inquiry will be set up in the case if required.