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To Shri Jairam Ramesh Hon’ble Member, Cabinet Committee on Unique Identification Authority of India related issues Hon’ble Member, Group of Ministers (GoM) regarding Issue of Resident Identity Cards to all usual residents of the country of age 18 years and above under the scheme of National Population Register (NPR) Government of India New Delhi Date: March 23, 2013 Subject- Dispelling the haze Sir, This is to draw your attention towards the attached article by Dr Usha Ramanathan reveals how the very basis of the enrollment for Aadhaar and NPR biometric information like fingerprints and iris scan is admittedly inherently fallible. I am attaching the following papers for your perusal and consideration: Dispelling the haze, a Q & A by Dr Usha Ramanathan, Frontline Volume 30 - Issue 05: Mar. 09-22, 2013   UID/Aadhaar Enrolment Form (Its Column 8 reads: "I have no objection to the UIDAI sharing information provided by ...

Aadhaar/UID is an assault on privacy and citizens rights, it should be boycotted   Sheila Dikshit’s budget speech ignores Punjab & Haryana High Court order, ongoing case in Supreme Court & Parliamentary Committee recommendations New Delhi: Sheila Dikshit, the Chief Minister of Govt. of NCT of Delhi in her budget speech continues to promote biometric profiling by Aadhaar/Unique Identification (UID) number i gnoring Punjab & Haryana High Court order, the ongoing case in Supreme Court, Parliamentary Committee recommendations, concerns of the National Human Rights Commission and protests by citizens. Delhi Government’s decision to make ‘voluntary’ 12 digit number Aadhaar/UID number mandatory     is an act of bullying which must be challenged, resisted and boycotted. Seventeen eminent citizens including Justice A.P. Shah, former Chief Justice of High Court of Delhi and Justice VR Krishna Iyer, former judge, Supreme Court of India have asked for the...

Press Release Parliamentary Committee Accepts Petition Against Biometric Data Collection, Aadhaar/UID & NPR After communicating its concerns to Parliamentary Committee, NHRC communicates human rights concerns on UID, RFID to Home Ministry New Delhi:In a significant development, P. Karunakaran, Chairperson, Parliamentary Committee on Subordinate Legislation has accepted the petition with regard biometric data collection related to Planning Commission's Aadhaar/Unique Identification (UID) Number and Home Ministry's National Population Register (NPR). The petition was submitted by Citizens Forum for Civil Liberties (CFCL), which as earlier given testimony before the Parliamentary Committee that has rejected the UID Bill. The letter from the Parliamentary Committee on Subordinate Legislation is attached. The letter reads, "I have received a copy of your petition (118 pages) regarding Subordinate Legislation for Biometric Identity Card NRIC and Aadhhar...

Cobrapost's Shocking  Mega Expose: Major Indian Private Sector Banks, HDFC Bank, ICICI Bank and Axis Bank, Are Blatantly Running A Huge Nation-wide Money Laundering Racket New Delhi: A Cobrapost pan-India undercover investigation spanning several months, unearths a vast, nation-wide money laundering racket being run by HDFC Bank, ICICI Bank and Axis Bank.  The brazen criminal activity by these banks is channelizing vast amounts of black money into the regular banking system as laundered white money. Our investigation, conducted across dozens and dozens of branches of these banks and their insurance affiliates, across all five zones of the country, revealed these shocking facts: That these money laundering practices are part of a standard set of procedures within these banks; * These money laundering services are being openly offered to even walk-in customers who wish to launder their illicit money; * A variety of options for laundering ill-gotten cash are being offered brazen...