The costs of living are shooting up in more ways than one! People are taxed mentally, physically and monetarily to help the government get its act together, instead of the other way around.
Besides the snags in finger print verification and technical/ software glitches, there is now a 18% hike in GST for each aadhar update.
Even for RTI and bank transactions there is GST, but not for petrol. I was shocked to see bank charges on bank draft cancellation and re-issue due no fault of mine, with plus GST each time. The government seems to slowly be making everything a business transaction.
Reportedly, hospital admissions have been denied in the emergency ward due absence of Aadhar card forcing a woman to deliver her baby in a cycle stand.
Also reported starvation due to non-issue of rations, etc which are ground realities, are stubbornly denied by the government which insists no one is denied services due to absence of card, since that stipulation is in the Aadhar Act itself.
There is a lot of tension and pains imposed on the senior citizens and the common man, especially the poor and illiterate. The RTO says forms are not available and the same must be downloaded from their site.
Their portals, however, couldn’t be worse and not at all user-friendly. Is this the way the government claims to help in spreading ease of living? Wither less government, more governance?
John Eric Gomes Porvorim
