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LATEST NEWS UPDATES | Ready to give Aadhaar card to sex workers, UIDAI tells SC -Krishnadas Rajagopal

Ready to give Aadhaar card to sex workers, UIDAI tells SC -Krishnadas Rajagopal

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published Published on Feb 28, 2022   modified Modified on Mar 1, 2022

-The Hindu

But they have to get certificate from a gazetted officer of health departments of States or from official with NACO, it says

The Unique Identification Authority of India (UIDAI) on Monday informed the Supreme Court that it was willing to issue Aadhaar card to sex workers without insisting on proof of residence/identity, provided they got a certificate from a gazetted officer of the health departments of the States or from an official with the National AIDS Control Organisation (NACO).

The suggestion came in a petition before a Bench of Justices L. Nageswara Rao and B.R. Gavai on the lack of food security for lakhs of sex workers across the country, especially during the years of pandemic.

The court has been hearing arguments about how the authorities and community-based organisations could reach out to sex workers and provide them with ration card, voter card and Aadhaar card without disclosing their identities. Sex workers still battle social stigma even at the cost of food security.

Advocate Zoheb Hossain, for the UIDAI, submitted that it was an obligation to ensure that sections of society did not lack access to their basic rights like food because they did not have an Aadhaar card.

Justice Rao said personal information, including their identities, would have to remain confidential.

‘What about Bill?’

The court asked the Centre about a Bill it had proposed to introduce in Parliament to curb trafficking and for rehabilitation of sex workers.

“Anything happening with the Bill? Additional Solicitor Generals keep changing but there is no progress in the Bill,” Justice Rao addressed Additional Solicitor General Jayant K. Sud.

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The Hindu, 28 February, 2022, https://www.thehindu.com/news/national/ready-to-give-aadhaar-card-to-sex-workers-uidai-tells-sc/article65092574.ece?homepage=true


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