Aadhaar is being misused at various instances and government is ill-equipped to address this issue.
How Aadhaar is being misused?
Welfare States hand out money, either in the form of cash or benefits, Well-known examples are scholarships, old age and disabled persons’ pensions, subsidy for the LPG cylinder, etc.
But I has been found that a private college had ‘ghost’ students on its rolls and claimed scholarships for them.
Many households had two or more LPG cylinder connections and claimed the subsidy on all cylinders with the connivance of the dealers.
LPG dealers had enrolled ‘ghost’ customers, claimed the subsidy, and sold the cylinders to hotels, restaurants and marriage halls.
How people are getting affected by this?
The other problem was that the poor did not have a reliable method to identify themselves.
The worst sufferers were migrant workers, slum dwellers, forest dwellers and people forced to live on the streets.
They had no verifiable address, their names were not on the electoral rolls or any other government record, they could not get a ration card or admit their children to a school, and they were at the mercy of the police, municipal and forest officials who treated them roughly as vagabonds and encroachers.
