-Press Release from Delhi Rozi Roti Adhikar Abhiyan The Delhi Rozi Roti AdhikarAbhiyan today held a Jan Sunnwai on the problems being faced by people in Delhi while accessing their PDS entitlements under the Natonal Food Security Act (NFSA). The NFSA provides for priority ration cards for 42% of Delhi’s population. Households with priority ration cards are eligible to receive 5kgs of foodgrains per person per month at subsidised prices....
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Five Myths about Aadhar -Reetika Khera
-Outlook And how to dispel these misconceptions using the government’s own data. There are many misconceptions about the "aadhaar" 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. 1. The UID project will help give a valid ID to millions of Indians who do...
More »Is the Aadhar Card Compulsory? It’s Not Yet Clear -Upasana Garnaik and Surabhi Shukla
-TheWire.in “It is not mandatory for a citizen to obtain an Aadhar card”, stated the Supreme Court on the 11th of August, 2015. The court was considering whether the Constitution guarantees a right to privacy and whether the Aadhar card scheme infringes such right. While the state argued that the legal position regarding the existence of the fundamental right to privacy is “doubtful”, the petitioners submitted that “it is too late...
More »Government moves to minimise impact of SC Aadhaar verdict -Aloke Tikku
-Hindustan Times New Delhi: A week after the Supreme Court delivered its interim order on use of Aadhaar numbers, the government on Thursday decided to continue seeding the identity numbers into the database of beneficiaries if people voluntarily shared the numbers. The government has also found a way to minimise the impact of the verdict on Aadhaar-linked schemes. The Supreme Court had, last week, restricted the government from using the Aadhaar number for...
More »Digitization of ration cards in 26 states to plug PDS leakage -Dipak K Dash
-The Times of India NEW DELHI: In significant progress made by states to check leakage of foodgrains under the public distribution system (PDS), 26 states and Union Territories have completed 100% digitization of ration cards in the past one year. Six states have digitized the supply chain for better monitoring of grain moving from godowns to the doorstep of consumers. According to food ministry sources, the overall digitization of ration cards across...
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