-The Hindu ‘Banks told to re-verify and retrieve these payments if found to be erroneous’ Karnataka: The input subsidy that the State government paid to a farmer, Venkatamma, has been debited to one Vincent Rajkumar’s account. This is one of the nearly 40,000 suspected erroneous payments in the first-ever aadhaar Enabled Payment System (AEPS) disbursal of input subsides — given as part of drought relief — to around 18 lakh farmers...
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'13.5 crore aadhaar accounts compromised' -Mayur Shetty
-The Times of India MUMBAI: Cyberspace security experts are worried about the risk to customers using aadhaar numbers and one-time passwords for authentication of financial transactions after it was revealed that a large cache of aadhaar numbers had become public. Bengaluru-based think tank, Centre for Internet and Society (CIS), has published a report highlighting how 13.5 crore aadhaar accounts have been exposed by government departments. The report, by Amber Sinha and Srinivas Kodali,...
More »Centre revokes UGC directive on making PhD scholars' aadhaar details public -Prakash Kumar
-Deccan Herald Clarifies that publishing and displaying aadhaar in public is prohibited The Centre has asked the universities not to make public aadhaar number of PhD scholars, withdrawing the university grants commission's (UGC) instruction which required all of the varsities to upload the data of their students along with their unique identification numbers on their websites since last year. “It is informed that the aadhaar (Targeted Delivery of Financial and Other Subsidies, Benefits...
More »MGNREGA can now be linked to aadhaar till September -Sreeparna Chakrabarty
-The Asian Age Amarjeet Sinha said it was a myth that people were losing work for not having aadhaar cards. New Delhi: The central government extended the cut off date for 100 per cent aadhaar coverage in the MGNREGA to September 30, instead of the earlier deadline of March 31. The move comes after the Centre faced widespread criticism from civil society activists over making aadhaar compulsory for getting work under the...
More »PDS foodgrains cannot be denied to all those eligible: High Court
-PTI The Delhi High Court today made it clear to the Centre that persons entitled under the public distribution system (PDS) scheme cannot be denied subsidised foodgrains. A bench of Acting Chief Justice Gita Mittal and Justice Anu Malhotra said the “persons entitled under the scheme cannot be denied subsidised foodgrains” and it wanted to ensure that “not only the poor” but all those “eligible” should avail the benefits of the...
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