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A welfare test for Aadhaar | The Indian Express

A welfare test for Aadhaar | The Indian Express



A welfare test for Aadhaar

Exclusion and denial of benefits to the poor needs urgent attention

Written by Subhashis Banerjee | Published:November 4, 2017 12:06 am
Aadhaar, Aadhaar linking, Aadhaar linking problems, UIDAI, PA government, NDA, NDA government, MGNREGA, Aadhaar news,
Aadhaar undeniably has potential, and can perhaps even be a “game changer”. (Representational photo)

The news last month of the starvation death of an 11-year-old girl in the Simdega district in Jharkhand, allegedly because of denial of PDS ration due to Aadhaar linking problems, is appalling. The Aadhaar ecosystem definitely needs to pass a stringent welfare test much more crucially than the privacy test.

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