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Labour Ministry Can Now Seek Aadhaar From Beneficiaries under Social Security Code
05 May 2021
Aadhaar would not be made mandatory for delivery of services under various social security schemes under the purview of the ministry because the Social Security Code has not been fully implemented so…
PTI
SC Calls Cancellation of Three Crore Ration Cards ‘Too Serious’, Seeks Replies from Centre, States
17 Mar 2021
‘We are asking you (Centre) to respond because of Aadhaar issue. This is not an adversarial litigation,’ the bench said.
Sarada Mahesh
Mobile Apps and Aadhaar Seeding Cannot Solve Every Problem India Has
16 Feb 2021
Everything is a data-collection process, an excuse to seed our Aadhaar ID in a database.
PTI
SC Rejects Pleas Seeking Review of 2018 Aadhaar Verdict
20 Jan 2021
Justice D Y Chandrachud, one of the five-judges of the bench, dissented with the majority verdict and said that the review petitions be kept pending until a larger bench decides the question related…
Newsclick Report
Nearly Rs 5,000 Crore NREGA Wage Payments Rejected in Past 5 Years: Report
19 Nov 2020
Despite DBT, 45% of the respondent workers had to visit banks multiple times, mainly due to biometric glitches, while 57% reported their passbooks don't get updated.
Ditsa Bhattacharya
Aadhaar Project Unconstitutional in Design and Implementation, Says Report
03 Oct 2020
The Aadhaar Tribunal jury expressed that a welfare state is constitutionally bound to provide benefits and services to citizens which cannot be made conditional either on a particular means of…
Newsclick Team
India, COVID and the Right to Food
15 Jul 2020
Professor Dipa Sinha, from Ambedkar University -Delhi (AUD) and the Right to Food Campaign-India, speaks on the impacts of the COVID lockdown in India on the food and nutrition status of the working…
Rosamma Thomas
Rajasthan HC Ruling puts Question Mark over ID Proof for Access to Services
23 Apr 2020
Even though Parliament passed the Transgender Persons (Protection of Rights) Act last year, there are no rules for its implementation as yet.
Newsclick Team
Let’s Talk: India’s National Social Registry and Kerala’s Response to the Coronavirus
20 Mar 2020
In this episode, we talk to Kumar Sambhav Shrivastava who has written a series of stories on the Modi government’s plan for a massive all-India database of citizens which has grave implications for…
Newsclick Report
Brace Yourself, Govt Plans to Peek into Every Detail of Your Life
17 Mar 2020
The proposed National Social Registry, seeded by Aadhaar, is expected to be in place by 2022 and will be able to zero-in on details ranging from citizens’ movements to births, deaths and marriages in…