SC verdict on AAP-Centre power tussle updates: Manish Sisodia issues order shifting officers' appointment authority to Delhi govt
6 years, 6 months ago

SC verdict on AAP-Centre power tussle updates: Manish Sisodia issues order shifting officers' appointment authority to Delhi govt

Firstpost  

6:46 PM Whatsapp Facebook Twitter As Kejriwal govt gears up to unroll doorstep delivery of PDS ration, expert says scheme unlikely to achieve much Following the Supreme Court’s verdict, it appears that the Delhi government plans to push ahead with its plan of doing ‘doorstep delivery’ in the PDS. Unfortunately, the proposed solution — ie door-step delivery — is unlikely to achieve anything and may end up making matters worse. Two, delivery at the doorstep of PDS beneficiaries may reduce transparency and increase corruption. Three, the proposal is impractical – who will deliver to people’s homes, who will monitor these people, who will bear the additional costs," says Reetika Khera, Associate Professor, Economics, IIT Delhi

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Centre allows UPSC to perform Aadhaar-based authentication for candidates' verifications
4 months, 2 weeks ago

Centre allows UPSC to perform Aadhaar-based authentication for candidates' verifications

Hindustan Times  

New Delhi, In a first, the Centre on Wednesday allowed the Union Public Service Commission to perform Aadhaar-based authentication to verify candidates' identity on a voluntary basis, both at the time of registration and during various stages of examinations and recruitment. Centre allows UPSC to perform Aadhaar-based authentication for candidates' verifications The move assumes significance as the commission last month …

CBIC Notifies Biometric-Based Aadhaar Authentication Through GST Seva Kendras Approved For Andhra Pradesh
1 year, 1 month ago

CBIC Notifies Biometric-Based Aadhaar Authentication Through GST Seva Kendras Approved For Andhra Pradesh

Live Law  

The Central Board of Indirect Taxes and Customs has notified the biometric-based Aadhaar authentication through Goods and Services Tax Seva Kendras has been approved for Andhra Pradesh.At the 50th GST Council Meeting, which took place in New Delhi on July 11, 2023, it was suggested that a risk-based biometric Aadhar authentication pilot program be carried out in Gujarat. The Central …

Questioning the safety of Aadhaar
2 years, 7 months ago

Questioning the safety of Aadhaar

The Hindu  

The story so far: Two days after issuing an advisory asking people to refrain from sharing photocopies of their Aadhaar Card, the Unique Identification Development Authority of India opted to withdraw the notification. It stated that the action was to avert any possibility of ‘misinterpretation’ of the press release, asking people to exercise “normal prudence” in using/sharing their Aadhaar numbers. …

Fix Aadhaar defects now
2 years, 9 months ago

Fix Aadhaar defects now

Hindustan Times  

There are several “deficiencies” in how India’s national identity project, Aadhaar, is managed, according to a report tabled by the Comptroller and Auditor General of India in Parliament last week. Chief among these were instances of junk enrolment and low-quality biometric information, UIDAI’s inability to directly audit whether fingerprints and retina scans of citizens could be stored by third parties, …

Aadhaar as a hurdle: The Hindu Editorial on biometric authentication failures and welfare delivery
3 years, 9 months ago

Aadhaar as a hurdle: The Hindu Editorial on biometric authentication failures and welfare delivery

The Hindu  

The Supreme Court, on Wednesday, did the right thing by terming as serious the allegation by a petitioner that three crore ration cards were cancelled for not being linked with the Aadhaar database and that these were connected to reported starvation deaths in some States. Following the Court’s judgment in 2018, upholding the Aadhaar programme as a reasonable restriction on …

Has Aadhaar improved welfare delivery?
5 years, 8 months ago

Has Aadhaar improved welfare delivery?

Live Mint  

New Delhi: On Aadhaar.there is no vision, only political gimmick,” tweeted Narendra Modi in 2014, just a month before he became Prime Minister. Proponents argue that Aadhaar, by providing a unique identity and allowing biometric authentication, delivers the gains to actual beneficiaries, instead of fake or duplicates, thereby cutting leakages. This includes the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme …

UIDAI has new plans to make Aadhaar enrolment, updation easier
6 years ago

UIDAI has new plans to make Aadhaar enrolment, updation easier

Live Mint  

New Delhi: The UIDAI is mulling allowing Common Service Centres to provide non-biometric assistance for Aadhaar enrolment and updation services, including helping public in filling online forms, according to a government source. Village-level Entrepreneurs or VLEs, who run CSCs, have been asking the government to allow them to restart Aadhaar enrolment and updation services, after UIDAI restricted these centres and …

UIDAI asks telecom firms to submit plan to discontinue Aadhaar-based e-KYC
6 years, 3 months ago

UIDAI asks telecom firms to submit plan to discontinue Aadhaar-based e-KYC

Live Mint  

New Delhi: The Unique Identification Authority of India has asked telecom companies to submit a detailed plan within the next 15 days on discontinuation of Aadhaar-based authentication service used by them to verify their customer. In this regard, TSPs are hereby directed to submit by 15th October, 2018 an action plan/exit plan to the authority for closure of use of …

Core biometrics under Aadhaar safe and secure, govt tells Parliament
6 years, 5 months ago

Core biometrics under Aadhaar safe and secure, govt tells Parliament

India TV News  

The Union government on Friday informed the Parliament core biometrics under Aadhaar were safe and secure. Speaking in Rajya Sabha during the Question Hour, Minister of Electronics and Information Technology Ravi Shankar Prasad said that the use of the unique identification mechanism has ensured savings of over Rs 90,000 crore by eliminating middlemen. Some members raised questions about reports that …

UIDAI CEO's Presentation on Aadhaar's Validity Faces Scrutiny
6 years, 9 months ago

UIDAI CEO's Presentation on Aadhaar's Validity Faces Scrutiny

Live Law  

The Supreme Court hears arguments on Aadhaar presentation by UIDAI CEO Ajay Bhushan Pandey. The UIDAI CEO argues that prior to the introduction of Aadhaar, there was ID proof admissible at the national level in India. Each proof of ID had its own limitations, but the Aadhaar system gathers only minimal demographic information and biometric data. The UIDAI also has …

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