---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: shailesh gandhi <[email protected]> Date: 14 July 2016 at 16:31 Subject: Aadhar Card
I have been hearing about problems of identifying a person through the Aadhar card system. However, my touching faith in the integrity and capability of India’s IT professionals made me believe that the technological solution must be very sound and the errors if any would be negligible. My friends Aruna Roy and Nikhil Dey had told me that workers who work with their hands have their thumbs getting worn out and hence being deprived of their legitimate rations, pensions and other entitlements. I had again believed that these may be rare occurrences which were being anecdotally described.Other friends have also been highlighting serious flaws. I trust and have great faith in all these friends but felt that they were perhaps picking holes in one of the greatest technological feat of India for small discrepancies. However, yesterday my personal experience alters my perception, and I think there may be serious flaws which are being wished away. I have taken my Aadhar card in the last three years, and have only shown it or quoted the number sometimes. I do not wash clothes or do manual work which could lead to my finger prints changing. My bank,-HDFC Bank at Santacruz (w),- said I must get my KYC done. They said my Aadhar card would serve the purpose. I gave them my Aadhar card and they asked me to put my thumb on a small device. I could see my thumb impression on a screen. But the system would not validate me! The bank employee asked me to try again and we did this over six times with the same result. The bank employee told me that this happened very frequently with many customers. Most of these customers would not be working with their hands, and yet the system of Aadhar verification was not working. I could do my KYC by giving other documents, but the horror of this hit me. If the system cannot recognize people from its database with the thumb impression, what would happen to those whose foodgrains, pension or EGS wages depend on it? I think there is an urgent need to check over a large sample of maybe 10,000 people in different places to validate whether the system does what is claimed. Otherwise we will only have a pretension of having a system to identify every individual in the country. It is necessary that the truth be revealed by actual verification of a large sample across different parts of the nation. Love shailesh All my emails are in public domain. Mera Bharat Mahaan Nahi Hai, Per yeh Dosh, Mera Hai Tel: 91 22 26001003; 8976240798 -- Peace Is Doable -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Green Youth Movement" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send an email to [email protected]. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/greenyouth. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
