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Adding digital layers of indignity -Rajendran Narayanan

-The Hindu Dehumanisation is the likely outcome when humane aspects of governance get outsourced to technologies The right to live with dignity is a constitutional imperative. However, it rarely manifests in discussions surrounding digital initiatives in governance. Centralised data dashboards — valuable as they are — have become the go-to mode for assessing policies, relegating principles such as human dignity and hardships in accessing rights to its blind spots. Often when technological...

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Cry in the wild -Pradip Phanjoubam

-The Telegraph Lessons to take away from the two recent calamities in NorthEast It is never easy to rationalise tragedy. The two witnessed recently in the Northeast are no exceptions. One, the Assam floods in which the state’s two major rivers, the Brahmaputra and the Barak, and their tributaries wreaked havoc, killing nearly 200 people and, at one point, putting close to 4.5 million people in danger of starvation and disease. Two,...

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Review: NITI Aayog’s report identifies best practices from states across the Take-Home Rations value chain -Sai Krishna Muthyanolla

-Factly.in The Supplementary Nutrition Programme under ICDS aims to close the nutrition gap among pregnant and breastfeeding mothers as well as children under the age of six. SNP is provided in two ways: Take-Home Rations (THR) and Hot-Cooked Meals at Anganwadi Centres (AWCs).  NITI Aayog’s recent report identifies best practices from states across the Take-Home Rations value chain.  Public policy is often fraught with myriad challenges since they do not have any...

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Vulnerable To Frauds, Fakes & Breaches: Why Govt Auditor Served A Warning To Aadhaar -Saurav Das

-Article-14.com India’s national auditor says that Aadhaar, the national identity database and one of the world’s largest, is not finding and plugging leaks as it should. That is leading to rising frauds, hacks, data breaches and other misuse. Some of its failures have denied government services to the country’s most vulnerable. Experts advise restricting Aadhaar’s use and spread, but the government is not open to even addressing or fixing its problems. New...

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'One Nation, One Ration Card' programme implemented across India

-PTI/ Business Standard The implementation of ONORC was initiated in August 2019 Assam has finally operationalised the ration card portability service and with this, the Centre's 'One Nation, One Ration Card' programme is implemented across the country, the food ministry said on Tuesday. Under the ONORC (One Nation, One Ration Card), beneficiaries covered under the National Food Security Act, 2013 (NFSA) can get their quota of subsidised foodgrains from any electronic point of...

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