At odds on Aadhaar

The UID project, now brand-named Aadhaar, is once again being assailed. The recommendations of Parliament’s Standing Committee on Finance, chaired by the Bharatiya Janata Party’s (BJP’s) Yashwant Sinha, are basically a comprehensive list of objections to both the project and the proposed legislation governing it, the National Identification Authority of India Bill, 2010. The committee’s objections are a curious mixture; some attack the very basis of the project, others question its implementation. Some of those points on implementation are very valid indeed, and will need to be addressed.

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