Government Schemes- 30th June

ADVANTAGES OF LINKING YOUR AADHAR CARD

Every Indian resident (regardless of citizenship) is allowed to receive an Aadhaar after providing his demographic and biometric data. This unique identity number has 12 digits. 

Name, age, gender, and address are considered to be demographic information, whereas fingerprints and eye scans are considered to be biometric information (iris scan). There is no collection of data on health, income, caste, religion, or racial identity.

Subject to authentication, the Aadhaar number will be accepted as identification. It shouldn’t be interpreted as evidence of citizenship or residence, though. After the collected data has been verified, an Aadhaar number will be issued. The Central Identities Data Repository database will be used to store the gathered data.

Apart from transmitting payments under government initiatives, the Indian government requires each and every individual to link their Aadhar number to their mobile phone connection, bank account, PAN, and other services.

In order to open new bank accounts or apply for Tatkal passports, Aadhar would be required, according to the Unique Identification Authority of India (UIDAI).

Aadhar implementation has come under harsh criticism from a variety of sources, including cabinet colleagues, bureaucrats, campaigners, and even certain state governments. Procedures for gathering data and any inaccuracies that may occur within are being questioned due to privacy concerns.

The UIDAI’s strategy of depending on “secondary information” via existing identification cards, as well as its procedure of using various registrars and enrolling organizations to acquire individual data, has grown to be a hotly contested topic. 

When constructing the National Population Register, the Registrar General of India (RGI) advocates for a process of public inspection in which individual data is directly collected and made available to the public in order to weed out any fraud.

The data collecting for Aadhaar was determined to be inaccurate by RGI and census commissioner Dr. C. Chandramouli, who declared, “Our complaint is to the data gathering by other registrars who have a different viewpoint from ours. They are unacceptable in terms of security.’’ It was believed that both programmes might share information and pool their data. However, the home ministry has objected to NPR’s use of UID data.

In order to reduce risk, the following risk factors are inscribed on Aadhaar. – First, the initiative would inevitably include the invasion of peoples’ civil liberties and privacy. 

Second, it’s still not apparent whether the project’s core, biometric technology, can handle the enormous task of de-duplication. 

The “Biometrics Standards Committee” of the Unique Identification Authority of India (UIDAI) has noted that the issue of Indian fingerprint quality “has not been studied in depth” and that maintaining biometric effectiveness for a database of more than one billion people “has not been adequately analyzed.” 

Third, there hasn’t been a feasibility study or cost-benefit analysis for the project. The alleged social sector benefits of the initiative, such as those in the Public Distribution System (PDS), are also unreal.

The “missing link” in India’s efforts to become a superpower is identity of a citizen in the wake of infiltrations from neighboring nations. The technology-linked identity drive in the proper direction may be referred to as Aadhaar.

The “Aadhaar” UID initiative has two distinct aspects. The first is that it is related to “national security,” and the second is a concern for “development.” Both elements are equally significant.

The recipient of benefits under different government-sponsored programmes currently has to repeatedly prove his identification and eligibility by submitting a variety of documents for inspection. Several authorities check these documents for authenticity.

As opposed to the one programme, one bank strategy, the beneficiary can utilize an Aadhaar-enabled bank account to receive several welfare payments.

The “missing link” in India’s efforts to become a superpower is identity of a citizen in the wake of infiltrations from neighboring nations. The technology-linked identity drive in the proper direction may be referred to as Aadhaar.

The “Aadhaar” UID initiative has two distinct aspects. The first is that it is related to “national security,” and the second is a concern for “development.” Both elements are equally significant.

The recipient of benefits under different government-sponsored programmes currently has to repeatedly prove his identification and eligibility by submitting a variety of documents for inspection. Several authorities check these documents for authenticity.

As opposed to the one programme, one bank strategy, the beneficiary can utilize an Aadhaar-enabled bank account to receive several welfare payments.