The ease of doing business must be extended to Aadhaar card also. Most Indians are forced to spend half their waking time standing in queues for cards like ration, epic, pan card, etc. The system of obtaining any government service is back-breaking and time-consuming. The system of obtaining Aadhaar card must be simplified in terms of time. Millions of cards need millions of outlets at convenient places like schools, panchayats, banks, etc on a permanent basis, Often validation of bio metrics poses a huge problem. Now they say the cards must contain birth dates? Why can’t the birth date verification be supplemented with birth certificates, passports, pan cards, epic, etc? Is this another ploy for harassing people and raising additional resources? Why biometrics again for incorporating birth dates? Could not the proof of birth submitted with the Aadhaar be used and fresh card issued without further torture to old, elderly, children, sick and disabled? Why can’t they simply retrieve the data available with the government? Whose fault is it that the government woke up now? When a bank manager’s attention was drawn to the SC order postponing indefinitely the linking of Aadhaar with bank accounts, he shot back that banks are under the rule of Reserve Bank, and that no such circular was received by them and that account holders will have to fend for themselves for not linking with Aadhaar card.
Nelson Lopes Chinchinim
