From: Right to Food Campaign Network <rfckarnataka@gmail.com>
Date: Mon, Sep 4, 2017 at 12:27 PM
Subject: Invite- Museum of the Aadhaar abused - Fossilised Citizenship - A protest by people denied of their entitlements because of the Aaadhar system
Dear Friends,
The Right to Food Karnataka would like to invite you all for - Museum of the Aadhaar Abused
Museum of the Aadhaar abused
Fossilised Citizenship - A protest by people denied of their entitlements because of the Aaadhar system
6th September 2017, 10.30 AM to 1.00 PM, in front of the Town Hall, Bangalore
The Right to Food Campaign - Karnataka
The historical judgment on Privacy as a fundamental right by the Supreme Court will hopefully stop the government from employing intrusive means of profiling people in the name of Aadhaar. An equally important issue is how Aadhaar has become a tool in the hands of the state to exclude people from accessing even basic entitlements and services.
Despite repeated court orders, Aadhaar has been linked to every aspect of people’s lives from school admissions, scholarships, insurance policies to even monthly rations, TB and HIV drugs, disaster relief and death certificates. While this forced submission of people into parting their private data can be challenged using the recent SC judgment, the brazen use of Aadhar to systemically deny the masses of their basic entitlements is a matter that is yet to be accepted by the same courts, reminding us of the class bias of the legal system in India.
Millions of deprived people, most of them who live a hand to mouth existence in slums and villages are going without food as the Aadhaar machines at ration shops often fail to recognise the worn down finger prints of labourers or because of other technical problems. The same issues prevent them from accessing other life critical and developmental services like old age, widow and disability pensions, school admissions for children, scholarship and medical treatment.
The state, instead of plugging leaks, most of which happen at the higher echelons of administration, is criminalising law abiding citizens of the country by treating them as suspects instead of citizens. This has completely skewed the social contract between the state and the citizens and Aadhaar has become a technological tool of exclusion by a brutally bureaucratic state. Cases of people deprived because of Aadhaar run into millions but the government remains in a deliberate state of denial.
The Musuem of the Aadhaar abused is a unique protest by people who are being denied of their rightful entitlements because of Aadhaar. As exhibits for their own cause, the deprived people will highlight why Aadhaar is proof of the government gone wrong, of how Aadhaar has fossilised the very idea of citizenship and has become the most intrusive and discriminatory technology in the world today. The Museum of the Aadhaar abused will be organised by the Right to Food Campaign – Karnataka with the demand for Aadhaar to be delinked from all services. All are welcome.
Please confirm your participation
Neelaiah
Convener,
The Right to Food Campaign Karnataka
Phone: 9880606883
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