What is the Aadhar Card?
Aadhar Card was created as a reliable document for direct transfer of benefits from the Government to the deserving.
It was created under the Aadhar Act.
The purpose of this card was to ensure that the subsidies released by government for its various schemes reached the beneficiary directly and that no one else could take any money out of it.
Thus a person working under MNREGS (Mahatma Gandhi Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme) for 100 days as guaranteed under MNREGA would get the money in his / her bank account or be paid only on presentation of Aadhar Card with bio-metrics locked into the number.
Thus, the only purpose of Aadhar card was to ensure correct delivery of subsidies.
It was essentially meant for those below Poverty Line and who take subsidized items from the Government. Like Ration, Gas, Kerosene, etc.
Somewhere down the line, someone decided that every Indian should have an Aadhar Card. Thus a campaign was mounted and pressure applied to get people to get Aadhar Card made even when they were not taking any subsidies.
This was later struck down by the SC in a judgement where it said that Aadhar Card is required only under the Aadhar Act and no one else who did not take subsidies need to have an Aadhar Card.
Aadhar Card was created based on your existing documents, thus if someone produced five sets of fake documents, he could have technically created five Aadhar Cards as this did not involve any cross checking of the submitted documents.
Aadhar card is now recognized as not good enough for date of birth or address proof and it was already said that it is not a proof of citizenship.
In the SC judgement, in a twist, SC made it compulsory for people to link PAN to Aadhar. But even that now seems useless as Aadhar is neither proof of date of birth nor address nor even of citizenship.
Due to this perverse twist, SC, although striking down the need for Aadhar for everyone, indirectly created a back door for the government to require Aadhar.
Income Tax does not come under any subsidy scheme by any stretch of imagination.
The culprit for this twist is none other than Justice D.Y. Chandrachaud (as far as I can remember).
Aadhar Card was created as a reliable document for direct transfer of benefits from the Government to the deserving.
It was created under the Aadhar Act.
The purpose of this card was to ensure that the subsidies released by government for its various schemes reached the beneficiary directly and that no one else could take any money out of it.
Thus a person working under MNREGS (Mahatma Gandhi Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme) for 100 days as guaranteed under MNREGA would get the money in his / her bank account or be paid only on presentation of Aadhar Card with bio-metrics locked into the number.
Thus, the only purpose of Aadhar card was to ensure correct delivery of subsidies.
It was essentially meant for those below Poverty Line and who take subsidized items from the Government. Like Ration, Gas, Kerosene, etc.
Somewhere down the line, someone decided that every Indian should have an Aadhar Card. Thus a campaign was mounted and pressure applied to get people to get Aadhar Card made even when they were not taking any subsidies.
This was later struck down by the SC in a judgement where it said that Aadhar Card is required only under the Aadhar Act and no one else who did not take subsidies need to have an Aadhar Card.
Aadhar Card was created based on your existing documents, thus if someone produced five sets of fake documents, he could have technically created five Aadhar Cards as this did not involve any cross checking of the submitted documents.
Aadhar card is now recognized as not good enough for date of birth or address proof and it was already said that it is not a proof of citizenship.
In the SC judgement, in a twist, SC made it compulsory for people to link PAN to Aadhar. But even that now seems useless as Aadhar is neither proof of date of birth nor address nor even of citizenship.
Due to this perverse twist, SC, although striking down the need for Aadhar for everyone, indirectly created a back door for the government to require Aadhar.
Income Tax does not come under any subsidy scheme by any stretch of imagination.
The culprit for this twist is none other than Justice D.Y. Chandrachaud (as far as I can remember).
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