-Scroll.in In 2017, lakhs of ration cards were deleted in the state without informing the households. Almost 90% of the ration cards that the Jharkhand government declared invalid between 2016 and 2018 belonged to real households, a study by the Abdul Latif Jameel Poverty Action Lab revealed on Thursday. Almost 56% of these deleted ration cards were not linked with aadhaar. The study comes at a time when the Jharkhand government...
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'Digital divide' persists despite the country's desire to become a digital giant
A recent report of the Ministry of Statistics and Programme Implementation (MoSPI) brings forth the dichotomy between digital divide and India’s transition towards a cashless economy. The rural-urban divide in access to computer and internet is quite stark, according to the report entitled 'Key Indicators of Household Social Consumption on Education in India, July 2017 to June 2018'. The 75th round National Sample Survey (NSS) report on education finds that...
More »Law Ministry gives nod for aadhaar Card linking with Voter ID: Take note of these new details -Debjit Sinha
-Financial Express aadhaar Voter ID linking, seeding: It all began in August 2019 when the ECI wrote a letter addressed to the Law Secretary proposing amendments to two pivotal acts- aadhaar Act, 2016, and Representation of the People Act, 1950. aadhaar-Voter ID linking process gets Modi government nod! The Union Law Ministry has given its approval for aadhaar Card Voter ID linking process, a proposal put forwarded by the Election Commission of...
More »Senior citizens, widows demand pension hike before elections
-The Hindu Shanti Devi, a 70-year-old widow, spends her days cleaning houses in Okhla to earn a meagre sum as she has not got her government pension for over two years. “I went to the social welfare office. I showed them my passbook, my aadhaar card, but they just gave me a slip saying my pension has been stopped and told me to approach the local MLA,” she says, pulling a...
More »PAN won't become inoperative if not linked to aadhaar till SC judgement: Gujarat High court -Preeti Motiani
-The Economic Times The deadline for linking of PAN and Aadhar had been extended several times and now the new deadline is March 31, 2020. So, if a person doesn’t link his PAN with Aadhar by the said date, his PAN shall be inoperative. As per Section 139AA of the Income Tax Act, every person who has been allotted PAN and who is eligible to obtain aadhaar, shall intimate his aadhaar...
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