What is the issue?
India is going through a curious phase of development and there are issues with Aadhaar.
What is the real time need for Aadhaar?
- To avoid leakages and curb black money.
- Aadhaar based Direct Benefit Transfer
- Jan Dhan Yojana, bank account for all.
- Faster processing of passport applications.
- To get the benefits of Digi locker, for safer digital storage of documents.
What are the real-time problems with Aadhaar?
- Separate identities for various purposes exist already.
- E.g Identity as an NREGA worker, Identity in the Public Distribution System, Passport as the identity of citizenship.
- Aadhaar creates the problem of multiple identity.
- It points to techno-utopianism such that it can solve all problems.
- Enrolment in Aadhaar is most confusing for uneducated and for rural population.
- Aadhaar Officials are nor responsive or accountable.
- There are high possibilities of data theft and privacy concerns with Aadhaar.
How government is addressing the issues?
- Aadhaar should be considered as the only document for all activities involving financial process.
- Many initiatives were taken to reduce the difficulties in issuance of Aadhaar card.
- The enrolment and correction of Aadhaar is outsourced.
- The users are provided with option of locking their data, which are in the verge of misuse.
- Experienced and high skilled employees are appointed in the Aadhaar enrolment process.
Source: Business standard
