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There are many misconceptions about the &amp;quot;aadhaar&amp;quot; number. Many people believe that this project is essential for poor people, better implementation of government programmes and so on. This note dispels these misconceptions using the government&#039;s own data. Here are the five most popular myths.&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; Similarly, in NREGA also, corruption has gone down. Earlier, close to half of the wages did not reach NREGA workers. This has come down: according to estimates using IHDS data, leakages are less than 5 per cent now. Again, this has been achieved without aadhaar: payment of wages through bank and post office accounts has acted as a safeguard against corruption. &lt;br /&gt;
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&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; In March 2015, in Parliament, a minister said that more than nine crore enrolment records were rejected due to quality issues and suspected fraud.&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;br /&gt;
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There are many misconceptions about the &amp;quot;aadhaar&amp;quot; number. Many people believe that this project is essential for poor people, better implementation of government programmes and so on. This note dispels these misconceptions using the government&#039;s own data. Here are the five most popular myths.&lt;br /&gt;
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&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; Similarly, in NREGA also, corruption has gone down. Earlier, close to half of the wages did not reach NREGA workers. This has come down: according to estimates using IHDS data, leakages are less than 5 per cent now. Again, this has been achieved without aadhaar: payment of wages through bank and post office accounts has acted as a safeguard against corruption. &lt;br /&gt;
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&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; In March 2015, in Parliament, a minister said that more than nine crore enrolment records were rejected due to quality issues and suspected fraud.&lt;br /&gt;
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5. UID is necessary to proceed with &amp;quot;Direct Benefit Transfers&amp;quot; (DBT)&lt;br /&gt;
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&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; This is not true. For DBT, people need to have bank accounts. In fact, as government data below shows, DBT are doing quite well without aadhaar. In the case of NREGA, pensions etc, more than 90% of wages are paid through NEFT rather than the aadhaar-payment platform.&lt;br /&gt;
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-Outlook<br />
<em><br />
And how to dispel these misconceptions using the government&rsquo;s own data. <br />
</em><br />
There are many misconceptions about the &quot;aadhaar&quot; number. Many people believe that this project is essential for poor people, better implementation of government programmes and so on. This note dispels these misconceptions using the government's own data. Here are the five most popular myths.<br />
<br />
1. The UID project will help give a valid ID to millions of Indians who do not have any ID.<br />
<br />
&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; According to a recent reply to an RTI query, only 0.03% of those who got an aadhaar number were people who had no ID before. The rest (99.97%) were enrolled with the help of existing IDs.<br />
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<br />
3. UID is necessary because there is a lot of duplication of names in welfare programmes<br />
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&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; In March 2015, in Parliament, a minister said that more than nine crore enrolment records were rejected due to quality issues and suspected fraud.<br />
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<br />
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<br />
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<br />
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Five Myths about Aadhar -Reetika Khera

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