We are burdened with a plethora of cards like Pan Card, Aadhaar card, Ration card and Covid certificate, which is required to be produced on demand at all entry points. We have to do a lot of paperwork for every little thing. In addition, we are required to update our bank accounts regularly by doing KYC. Yet the big fish get away while the common law abiding citizen is unnecessarily harassed.
To obviate all this, we need our own unique card like the social security card, in advanced countries. This card must contain all relevant details of a person beginning from birth certificate and must include Pan and Aadhaar, Covid certificates, medical records like polio and other vaccination shots, all social welfare benefits for poor, like LPG, MNREGA, direct cash benefits, personal and vehicle insurance, etc. In addition, the card must contain all information regarding criminal record, passport, traffic offences, property owned, marriage certificate, bank accounts, salary and business income etc (as with social security cards).
Initially, the card may be optional for 2 years but it must be made mandatory thereafter as it should gradually subsume all other cards. The 12-digit Aadhaar card is ideally suited to be our own unique card as it can easily be curated to include all these details. This card will do away with the necessity of filling of forms for everything.
Considering that we have the best IT brains in the world, the roll-out of such a card should not pose a big problem. The benefits will be innumerable for the people and the nation as the corrupt will find it difficult to circumvent the system.
