A welfare test for Aadhaar
Exclusion and denial of benefits to the poor needs urgent attention
Aadhaar undeniably has potential, and can perhaps even be a “game changer”. (Representational photo)
The news last month of the starvation death of an 11-year-old girl in the Simdega district in Jharkhand, allegedly because of denial of PDS ration due to Aadhaar linking problems, is appalling. The Aadhaar ecosystem definitely needs to pass a stringent welfare test much more crucially than the privacy test.
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