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Don't link Aadhaar with voter ID: Ravi Shankar Prasad

-The Times of India BENGALURU: Union IT minister Ravi Shankar Prasad said on Sunday that he was personally not in favour of linking Aadhaar cards with electoral photo-identity cards (EPIC) of voters as the two serve different purposes. "I am not saying this as an IT minister... My personal opinion is Aadhaar should not be linked with the Voter ID Card," Prasad said at an event here. He said the government was not...

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Aadhaar is fine to stop some kinds of leakage and corruption. But it is no panacea. -Maitreesh Ghatak

-The Economic Times The art of good governance is through trial and error, figuring out what works where and how, and scaling up from below. Only then can one have a solid foundation. Aadhaar literally means something that holds (dhaaran: to hold). The word is interpreted either as a foundation or base (such as, to a building), or a container (such as, of water), even though given that it is an identity-verifying...

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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...

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No fingers or iris for Aadhaar, Bengaluru woman loses pension -Suraksha P

-The New Indian Express BENGALURU: Sajida Begum, 65, has been living at the Leprosy Hospital on Magadi Road for the past 10 years. Her family left her at the hospital years ago and does not come to visit. This leprosy patient’s only sustenance is the Rs 1,000 pension that she gets every month. Three months ago, this was stopped for the lack of an Aadhaar card. Sajida has lost her fingers and...

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After starvation death case: Jharkhand minister scraps top state official's order on Aadhaar-PDS link -Prashant Pandey

-The Indian Express The order also pointed out that on April 6, the minister had written to his secretary asking for a self-contained report on how the chief secretary could issue such a direction. However, the report was never filed. Ranchi: Four days after questioning the directions given by the Jharkhand chief secretary on mandatorily linking Aadhaar to ration cards by April 5, state PDS Minister Saryu Roy Saturday passed an order...

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