The plea, filed by advocate Ashwini Kumar Upadhyay, has asked for directions to restrict the use of Aadhaar cards strictly for identity verification.
Assam has decided to restrict Aadhaar card issuance for adults while approving a new satellite city project in the Guwahati metropolitan region, Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma announced.
The central government said that news reports and social media posts suggesting a change in Aadhaar card’s format are incorrect.
Till date, no breach of Aadhaar card holders’ data has occurred from the Unique Identification Authority of India (UIDAI) database, the government claimed in Parliament on Wednesday.
Other documents like ration cards and driving license are also as susceptible to being forged as Aadhaar card and Aadhaar cannot be singled out and excluded on that ground.
This nine-judge Bench for the first time engaged in an intense debate with legal scholars and prominent lawyers on whether or not privacy is a fundamental right in the Constitution.
You have to click on the “link Aadhaar” option on the portal's homepage to proceed. On the following page, you have to enter details such as full name along with your PAN and Aadhaar numbers.
There are a total of 12 documents for the total 89,78,11,627 electors that can help them cast their votes in the Lok Sabha elections 2019.
A bureaucrat can play fast and loose without any fear and the poor citizen readily gives in to his most outrageous demands. Corruption, which is arguably our most serious problem, is an offshoot of the facelessness and immunity granted to bureaucrats. We can rid ourselves of the twin evils of corruption and inefficiency only if we can put in place a system which demands accountability from all Government officials.
Last year, around half-a-dozen people died of starvation in Jharkhand because they were denied rations from the Public Distribution System (PDS) shops for failing to possess an Aadhaar card.
