{"id":35725,"date":"2018-11-01T11:32:26","date_gmt":"2018-11-01T06:02:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.forumias.com\/?p=35725"},"modified":"2018-11-01T11:32:26","modified_gmt":"2018-11-01T06:02:26","slug":"lets-not-suspend-disbelief","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/lets-not-suspend-disbelief\/","title":{"rendered":"Let\u2019s not suspend disbelief:\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/indianexpress.com\/article\/opinion\/columns\/lets-not-suspend-disbelief-aadhaar-criticism-pan-card-uidai\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Let\u2019s not suspend disbelief<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">:\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>Context:<\/b><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The CEO of the Unique Identification Authority of India (UIDAI), Ajay Bhushan Pandey, responds to various criticisms of Aadhaar.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Criticisms of Aadhaar:<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The UIDAI has little more control on the uses of Aadhaar than the Ministry of Rural Development has on the use of nuclear weapons<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It is mainly the government, not the UIDAI, that uses Aadhaar.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> \u00a0<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Dismisses the \u201ccollateral damage\u201d done by Aadhaar in various contexts<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Talking of the public distribution system (PDS), for instance, there is clear evidence from both official statistics and independent surveys that in Jharkhand alone millions of people are currently unable to buy their food rations due to ABBA-related problems.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">World Bank Digital Dividend Report 2016:<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> \u00a0\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The World Bank\u2019s Digital Dividend Report 2016 which has estimated that Aadhaar could annually save the central government US$ 11 billion if used in all welfare programmes.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The report, however, does not present any savings estimates.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Let\u2019s not suspend disbelief:\u00a0 Context: The CEO of the Unique Identification Authority of India (UIDAI), Ajay Bhushan Pandey, responds to various criticisms of Aadhaar. Criticisms of Aadhaar: The UIDAI has little more control on the uses of Aadhaar than the Ministry of Rural Development has on the use of nuclear weapons It is mainly the&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/lets-not-suspend-disbelief\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Let\u2019s not suspend disbelief:\u00a0<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":61,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[555],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-35725","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-test-1","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":{"total":0,"cached_at":1700770825,"cached_date":1704856721},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35725","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/61"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=35725"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35725\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35725"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35725"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35725"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}