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Linking Voter IDs with Aadhar Dangerous, Over 500 Citizens, Organisations Write to EC
27 Sep 2021
The letter to EC terms the proposal a “dangerous idea” that can lead to “mass disenfranchisement and fundamentally alter the structure of our democracy.”
Sumedha Pal
COVID-19: With Delhi Under Lockdown, Workers Await Ration Distribution by Kejriwal Govt.
12 May 2021
Over 70 lakh priority ration card holders have been identified across the city who largely constitute working classes who are out of jobs amid the pandemic.
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‘National Social Registry Can be a Tool of Surveillance’
21 Mar 2020
To be able to understand each and every facet of the 1.2 billion people of India, the Modi government is in the last phase of making an auto-updating, searchable database.
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Parliament Session: Govt Continues to Undermine Criticism of New Laws
20 Jul 2019
Almost the entire opposition walked out during the voting for the introduction of RTI amendment bill.
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Parliament Session: BJP Government to Push Several Controversial Bills
24 Jun 2019
Pending consideration of the Rajya Sabha, 22 bills out of 55 had lapsed with the dissolution of the 16th Lok Sabha.
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42 Starvation Deaths in 2 Years, Campaign Demands Food for Everyone
18 Feb 2019
According to the Right to Food Campaign, majority of the deaths have been among families of marginalised castes and tribes.
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#10YearChallenge: Aadhaar Edition
29 Jan 2019
Aadhaar, a scheme that was introduced as a mechanism for change and better administration of welfare schemes, was soon exposed as a mere tool for controlling and surveilling the entire country.
Sumedha Pal
Aadhaar Linkage With Voter IDs: ECI Compromised Privacy of Voters
15 Nov 2018
RTI responses have revealed that the ECI and UIDAI used inorganic seeding which allowed linking of voter IDs with the Aadhaar in bulk.
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End Aadhaar Based Exclusions, Implement National Food Security Act: Right to Food Campaign
09 Dec 2017
Newsclick publishes the press statement issued by Right to Food Campaign, in wake of the series of starvation deaths in Jharkhand caused by denial of entitlements like ration and pension.
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Ghosts of Aadhaar: Modi Govt, UIDAI Fabricated Data on Duplicates, Finds IT Activist
16 Nov 2017
When the govt’s figures submitted to Supreme Court in September 2015 are compared with a study conducted by UIDAI in August 2014, the claims of Aadhaar weeding out huge number of duplicates do not…