OUR DELHI BUREAU
Keeping track Of train travel
November 5, 2017:
More Aadhaar blues
The mandatory linking of Aadhaar to practically all services has forced the Government to boost its image management exercise. It was thought that linking rail tickets to Aadhaar would reduce ghost booking through touts and help improve ticket availability to genuine passengers. But instead of mandating Aadhaar and “potentially inconveniencing passengers”, an incentive has been given by which one can double the booking limit per month (from 6 to 12) on linking Aadhaar with IRCTC. When a journalist asked if the Government would make Aadhaar mandatory to book rail rickets, a government representative snapped that this would be done as soon as everybody promises not to write negatively about it. Uh oh!