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Aadhaar, no standout performer in welfare delivery -Praveen Chakravarty

-The Hindu

Aadhaar-based biometric authentication did not reduce PDS leakages, finds Jharkhand-based empirical study

“Aadhaar has curtailed leakages of government subsidies... Through Aadhaar, savings worth 90,000 crore have accrued to the government,” said Ajay Bhushan Pandey, then CEO of the Unique Identification Authority of India (UIDAI) and current Revenue Secretary, in UIDAI’s 2017-18 annual report.

But not so fast, say Professors Karthik Muralidharan, Paul Niehaus and Sandip Sukthankar. They have just published a new working paper in the prestigious National Bureau of Economic Research, which details findings from an extensive empirical study of the impact of Aadhaar in reducing leakages and accruing fiscal savings.

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