Time to junk Aadhar Card as SC refuses to accept it as proof of Date of Birth?

 

Did you get an Aadhar Card made?

If yes, how?

You went to the enrollment center with certain documents;

• Passport.
• PAN card.
• Ration or PDS Photo card.
• Voter Identification card.
• Driving license of the applicant.
• Photo identification cards issued by the Government of India/ Service photo ID cards that are issued by a PSU.
• Job card of MG-NREGS.

And then submitted these documents along with your bio-metric information, that is finger prints and retina scan.

Based on these documents, a Unique ID was generated and you were given a number.

Now the UIDAI had no method or means to verify the documents that you submitted. It did not even check whether these were genuine.

So, if your source documents were fake or altered or digitally modified, the UIDAI issued you another document which basically validated that fake information.

Thus, it does not come as a surprise that SC has junked Aadhar as the source of correct date of birth.

In fact, the whole Aadhar should be junked as it was never based on verified data but based on documents that a person submitted.

The only additional thing that UIDAI did was link your finger prints and retina scan to your existing documents. Both finger prints and retina scans are likely to change over the life of a person. You must have seen people, especially the elderly, struggling to get their finger prints validated during the annual life-certificate submission at banks.

Time the whole document, which has become a dangerous document, especially if someone steals your finger prints, to be trashed.

Using the AEPS (Aadhar Enabled Payment System), if someone uses your finger prints, he can virtually clean out your bank account as such a transaction does not generate an OTP on your phone.

From where can someone get your finger prints?

If you have registered any property document, the same can be lifted from your registered deed or lease agreement.

And if your society is using finger scanner where you have enrolled or your office is using finger scanner, the data can be stolen from there too!

There exists a strong case of doing away with Aadhar. You know what, before coming to power, even Narendra Modi was opposed to Aadhar and used to often castigate Congress from bringing this system. Later he seems have had a change of heart and developed love for Nandan Nilenkeni too!