-The Indian Express Linking it to ration cards ends up denying poor their rightful entitlements In September 2017, 11-year-old Santoshi, resident of Simdega district of Jharkhand, succumbed to starvation. According to her mother, she died “asking for rice, but there was not a single grain at home”. She was deprived of her subsidised ration as her family’s ration card was cancelled because it was not linked to Aadhaar. Marandi in Jharkhand met...
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Aadhaar query on homeless -R Balaji
-The Telegraph New Delhi: The Supreme Court has stumped the Centre by wondering how it intends to issue Aadhaar cards to innumerable homeless persons in the country in the absence of a residential identity. The court also wondered how the homeless could be given any national identity at all when they do not have any individual proof of residence. "A person who is homeless, how will you give an Aadhaar card?" a bench...
More »If No Aadhaar, Does Person Not Exist For Government, Asks Supreme Court -A Vaidyanathan
-NDTV The Supreme Court court made the comments while hearing a case related not to Aadhaar, but to night-shelters for homeless people across the country in the deepening winter chill New Delhi: To the questions swirling around the Aadhaar or national Identity cards, the Supreme Court today added a new one -- if a homeless person doesn't have it, will he not exist for the government? The court made the comments while...
More »Nursery admissions: 10 days before deadline, parents worry about children's Aadhaar
-The Times of India NEW DELHI: With just 10 days for the deadline to submit the registration forms for admission to nursery classes, the parents are a worried lot, fretful about whether their children's Aadhaar cards will be delivered in time for the process. While the Directorate of Education has said the Aadhaar cards of the parents are sufficient to prove identity, several schools are demanding the child's card too. It was...
More »CGSCSC distribution module gets implemented at 120 warehouses
-The Pioneer Raipur: The Chhattisgarh State Civil Supplies Corporation’s (CGSCSC) distribution centre module is now implemented at 120 warehouses of 108 distribution centres in the State, officials informed. The stocks and sales figures of previous month of all the Fair Price Shops (FPSs) are entered into this module and the actual amount of PDS commodities to be issued to FPS is calculated by this web based software and delivery order and truck...
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