-The Times of India RANCHI: Harsh Mander, the special commissioner appointed by the Supreme Court of India to advise it in the Right to Food case, met chief secretary Rajiv Gauba on Monday and asked the state government to initiate relief measures for the drought-affected farmers in the state where the Kharif crop has suffered damage due to deficit monsoon. Mander was here on his periodic visit to review and assess the...
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Karnataka’s public distribution system to go digital within three months -Nidheesh MK
-Livemint.com The state is mapping and feeding Aadhaar and biometric information of Ration card holders into a server Bengaluru: Karnataka food and civil supplies minister Dinesh Gundu Rao on Wednesday said the state’s fair price shops will go digital within the next three months. The state is mapping and feeding Aadhaar and biometric information of Ration card holders into a server. All transactions in the public distribution system (PDS) will have to...
More »An official Andhra survey shows why Modi government should stop pushing Aadhaar so doggedly
-Scroll.in An audit of ration shops after the introduction of Aadhaar revealed that many genuine beneficiaries couldn’t collect food grain due to system glitches. The Modi government’s insistence on the use of Aadhaar, India’s biometrics-based unique identification project, to weed out “ghosts, fakes, duplicates” from social welfare schemes is counterproductively excluding genuine beneficiaries from the programmes. In Andhra Pradesh, an official audit conducted after ration shops adopted the Aadhaar system revealed that many...
More »SC allows voluntary use of Aadhaar for four schemes -Dhananjay Mahapatra & Amit Anand Choudhary
-The Times of India NEW DELHI: The Supreme Court on Thursday permitted citizens to voluntarily use Aadhaar cards to avail benefits under the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme, along with Pradhan Mantri Jan Dhan Yojana and schemes related to pension and PF after the government promised that absence of Aadhaar would not debar people from benefiting from the schemes concerned. The relief came from a bench of Chief Justice HL...
More »Aadhaar use will be voluntary, says government -Dhananjay Mahapatra
-The Times of India NEW DELHI: Desperate to make Aadhaar usage universal to optimize implementation of welfare schemes, the Centre on Wednesday told the Supreme Court that it was ready to promise in writing that it would be completely voluntary for citizens to obtain and use the unique identification (UID) number. Attorney general Mukul Rohatgi told a five-judge bench comprising Chief Justice H L Dattu and Justices M Y Eqbal, C Nagappan,...
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