Updated: January 10 at 4:26 pm
The Aadhar Card has been the Central Government’s one of the most innovative moves (at least the Government says so). The Unique Identification Authority of India, or the UIDAI, has been working religiously to make people get registered under the process and has been perennially advancing to defy the benefits attached to it. Let’s first have a check on the benefits that the UIDAI claims but before that, DO NOT SHARE YOUR….
- Getting the Aadhaar card would make a person linked with small savings schemes such as Kisan Vikas Patra and PPF (Public Provident Fund) as well as bank accounts. Applying for a PAN (Permanent Account Number) card now also requires quoting of Aadhaar. We get it, the tasks get easier than ever and might benefit the people that were not getting benefitted from the schemes.
- So this means, the unique identification number would get you connected with all of your sources where the money is involved, directly or indirectly. At the very same time, the government could lay an eagle-eye (or better we call it Modi-eye) on all of your money related, taxation issues. Fair enough!
- The other benefit is, the subsidy could be directly transferred to the bank account of the person that should avail it, under the Direct Benefit Transfer (DBT). LPG subsidy is the core one!
- The government is also providing Digital Locker where the people can directly submit their documents on the government server and requires just the Unique Identification Number (UIN) for the purpose.
- Opening new bank accounts is now easier (I hope an SBI employee must be reading this) as the banks would take Aadhar Card as the Identity proof as well as the address proof and thus, minimizes the number of papers as the documents (Save paper, save forests).
Okay, there have been numerous benefits of having an Aadhar Card then why the people of Meghalaya, including the Meghalaya Chief Minister, don’t want to have an Aadhar Card?
SECURITY BREACH IS THE KEY FACTOR?
A few days back, one of the leading news journals of the Country, The Tribune featured story about the security breach in which The Tribune journalist Rachna Khaira somehow managed to ‘buy’ an access to the central UIDAI database for a mere amount of Rs 500 over Whatsapp, which clearly shows that UIDAI is not in control of the situation. But then, one of the deputy directors of UIDAI took the charge to amend the situation and filed an FIR against the journalist. Because, hey! showing the flaws of UIDAI is an offense under the section 47 of Aadhar Act, which says that only UIDAI can find the flaws in UIDAI, and only UIDAI can register an FIR against UIDAI. That’s so nothing lesser than ‘only God can judge me, and I am the damn God’.
Satish Acharya explains the bright side of Aadhar breach!
Notably, there was a design flaw in Aadhar Mapper which tells the government to transfer the subsidies through DBT. Airtel (I still can’t figure out if it was by the motive or not) used the Aadhar Mapper and became the default bank of DBT. As per the reports, the subsidy amount of 55.6 lakh people worth Rs 138 crore went directly to Airtel’s payment bank.
But hell yes, UIDAI took strict action against Airtel and suspended Airtel’s e-KYC license for all its service. Wow, so harsh! And then, the authority gave it back partially in five days flat. Interestingly, Airtel is still able to do SIM card verifications but cannot use Aadhaar for Payment Banks, DTH and other services. No FIRs against the company and the money was returned to the respective accounts. Airtel did get out the flaw of Aadhar but how dare The Tribune to show it! Face the FIR!
Not to mention, UIDAI denied of any breaching and said,
Some persons have misused demographic search facility, given to designated officials to help residents who have lost Aadhaar/Enrollment slip to retrieve their details @thetribunechd @rsprasad @ceo_uidai @timesofindia @firstpost @IndiaToday @ZeeNews @htTweets @TheQuint
WHY THE PEOPLE OF MEGHALAYA WANT TO OPT OUT THEMSELVES FROM AADHAR?
More than a hundred people in Meghalaya joined an initiative last year to opt out of Aadhaar, and claimed that they were coerced into getting the 12-digit biometrics-based unique identification number.
The campaign was led by the Meghalaya Peoples Committee on Aadhaar, an umbrella organisation of student and civil society groups. The organisers said that the opt-out campaign came out in response to the Union government’s persistent expansion of Aadhaar’s ambit in violation of Supreme Court directives.
Meghalaya CM Mukul Sangma is against Aadhar Enrollment, I wonder why!
Even the CM of Meghalaya, Mr. Mukul Sangma has not enrolled for Aadhar Card. His explanation is clear and lucid enough. He said,“Our right to privacy is important in a democracy, else the whole idea of democracy is diluted”. Clearly, the security breach is one of the leading reasons.
When I try to dig out some other reasons why Meghalaya is not supporting the Aadhar drive, one of the reasons what people think, and could be true is, anyone can get an Aadhar Card, whether the person is an Indian or not. And, if I link it with Meghalaya, possibly the illegal immigrants could get it and become the inseparable part of the country. The fight for stopping the illegal influx takes the back seat and neither the Central Government wins nor the state government wins. UIDAI doesn’t win as well. And not even the people of Meghalaya!
Satish Acharya tells the collision of theory between the Supreme Court and the Modi Government
The Cyber Crime that could now target one thing, to breach the data of Aadhar, to get the transactions in one pocket, is winning? The illegal influx is winning? Only God can answer.
This seems like the sinking Titanic Ship while the captain of the ship keeps screaming “Everything is fine” and, the people of Meghalaya, somehow know that the ship is sinking, my lord. The ship is sinking!
(Featured Image Courtesy: kamalcartoons.com)
Why do Meghalaya People Want to be ‘Aadhar-less’?
mm By Kumar AnubhavUpdated: January 10 at 4:26 pm
The Aadhar Card has been the Central Government’s one of the most innovative moves (at least the Government says so). The Unique Identification Authority of India, or the UIDAI, has been working religiously to make people get registered under the process and has been perennially advancing to defy the benefits attached to it. Let’s first have a check on the benefits that the UIDAI claims but before that, DO NOT SHARE YOUR….
Getting the Aadhaar card would make a person linked with small savings schemes such as Kisan Vikas Patra and PPF (Public Provident Fund) as well as bank accounts. Applying for a PAN (Permanent Account Number) card now also requires quoting of Aadhaar. We get it, the tasks get easier than ever and might benefit the people that were not getting benefitted from the schemes.
So this means, the unique identification number would get you connected with all of your sources where the money is involved, directly or indirectly. At the very same time, the government could lay an eagle-eye (or better we call it Modi-eye) on all of your money related, taxation issues. Fair enough!
The other benefit is, the subsidy could be directly transferred to the bank account of the person that should avail it, under the Direct Benefit Transfer (DBT). LPG subsidy is the core one!
The government is also providing Digital Locker where the people can directly submit their documents on the government server and requires just the Unique Identification Number (UIN) for the purpose.
Opening new bank accounts is now easier (I hope an SBI employee must be reading this) as the banks would take Aadhar Card as the Identity proof as well as the address proof and thus, minimizes the number of papers as the documents (Save paper, save forests).
Okay, there have been numerous benefits of having an Aadhar Card then why the people of Meghalaya, including the Meghalaya Chief Minister, don’t want to have an Aadhar Card?
SECURITY BREACH IS THE KEY FACTOR?
A few days back, one of the leading news journals of the Country, The Tribune featured story about the security breach in which The Tribune journalist Rachna Khaira somehow managed to ‘buy’ an access to the central UIDAI database for a mere amount of Rs 500 over Whatsapp, which clearly shows that UIDAI is not in control of the situation. But then, one of the deputy directors of UIDAI took the charge to amend the situation and filed an FIR against the journalist. Because, hey! showing the flaws of UIDAI is an offense under the section 47 of Aadhar Act, which says that only UIDAI can find the flaws in UIDAI, and only UIDAI can register an FIR against UIDAI. That’s so nothing lesser than ‘only God can judge me, and I am the damn God’.
Satish Acharya explains the bright side of Aadhar breach!
Notably, there was a design flaw in Aadhar Mapper which tells the government to transfer the subsidies through DBT. Airtel (I still can’t figure out if it was by the motive or not) used the Aadhar Mapper and became the default bank of DBT. As per the reports, the subsidy amount of 55.6 lakh people worth Rs 138 crore went directly to Airtel’s payment bank.
But hell yes, UIDAI took strict action against Airtel and suspended Airtel’s e-KYC license for all its service. Wow, so harsh! And then, the authority gave it back partially in five days flat. Interestingly, Airtel is still able to do SIM card verifications but cannot use Aadhaar for Payment Banks, DTH and other services. No FIRs against the company and the money was returned to the respective accounts. Airtel did get out the flaw of Aadhar but how dare The Tribune to show it! Face the FIR!
Not to mention, UIDAI denied of any breaching and said,
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Some persons have misused demographic search facility, given to designated officials to help residents who have lost Aadhaar/Enrollment slip to retrieve their details @thetribunechd @rsprasad @ceo_uidai @timesofindia @firstpost @IndiaToday @ZeeNews @htTweets @TheQuint
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WHY THE PEOPLE OF MEGHALAYA WANT TO OPT OUT THEMSELVES FROM AADHAR?
More than a hundred people in Meghalaya joined an initiative last year to opt out of Aadhaar, and claimed that they were coerced into getting the 12-digit biometrics-based unique identification number.
The campaign was led by the Meghalaya Peoples Committee on Aadhaar, an umbrella organisation of student and civil society groups. The organisers said that the opt-out campaign came out in response to the Union government’s persistent expansion of Aadhaar’s ambit in violation of Supreme Court directives.
Meghalaya CM Mukul Sangma is against Aadhar Enrollment, I wonder why!
Even the CM of Meghalaya, Mr. Mukul Sangma has not enrolled for Aadhar Card. His explanation is clear and lucid enough. He said,“Our right to privacy is important in a democracy, else the whole idea of democracy is diluted”. Clearly, the security breach is one of the leading reasons.
When I try to dig out some other reasons why Meghalaya is not supporting the Aadhar drive, one of the reasons what people think, and could be true is, anyone can get an Aadhar Card, whether the person is an Indian or not. And, if I link it with Meghalaya, possibly the illegal immigrants could get it and become the inseparable part of the country. The fight for stopping the illegal influx takes the back seat and neither the Central Government wins nor the state government wins. UIDAI doesn’t win as well. And not even the people of Meghalaya!
Satish Acharya tells the collision of theory between the Supreme Court and the Modi Government
The Cyber Crime that could now target one thing, to breach the data of Aadhar, to get the transactions in one pocket, is winning? The illegal influx is winning? Only God can answer.
This seems like the sinking Titanic Ship while the captain of the ship keeps screaming “Everything is fine” and, the people of Meghalaya, somehow know that the ship is sinking, my lord. The ship is sinking!
(Featured Image Courtesy: kamalcartoons.com)
