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Edmund Burke
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Edmund Burke
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Mahatma Gandhi
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Rajiv Gandhi
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Mani Shankar Aiyar, Congress leader

Tuesday, March 1, 2011

994 - Will Aadhaar be the next Indian Scam ? - By Ram Krishnaswamy

Monday, January 3, 2011

994 - Will Aadhaar be the next Indian Scam ? - By Ram Krishnaswamy

CLICK ON TITLE TO SEE ORIGINAL ARTICLE - Posted by Ram Krishna Swamy
Read the full article in the blog

I am not at all surprised to read this article in ‘Star of Mysore’ early in the New Year. After the release of the Radia Tapes, the Media is possibly waking up in 2011 to its responsibilities ‘to report news and not create paid news’; plus the Aadhaar advertising budget is probably getting depleted without creating the anticipated impact and main players in the media who have been the mouth piece of NN, UIDAI and Aadhaar have gone a bit silent lately. ( My Google alerts can hardly find any news for my blog :-)

We must always  remember that “Truth, friendship and loyalties can never be bought.”

How is the procedure for issuing Aadhaar any different to flawed and corrupt procedures in issuing Ration Cards or NREGA job cards in India ?

Such Govt schemes are seen as mega opportunities for making a quick buck right from top to bottom. In a nation that has printed and sold Stamp Papers for many years and later stamped as “the Stamp Scam” ( http://www.thehindubusinessline.com/nic/stamp/index.htm ) it is no big deal to photo copy or reprint Aadhaar application forms, is it?.

At the top of the Aadhaar chain are Multi National Corporations like L1 Identity Solutions that even President Barrack Obama is openly backing by attending an Aadhaar Registration office along with L1 Identity Solutions staff.

At this point of time the gullible believe that the sooner they get their Aadhaar number sooner will their miseries disappear..

So the rush for Aadhaar is like the rush to get tickets to a cricket match. There is pushing and shoving and there are now touts who will get you a form and help you fill it out and speed up your place in the line, all for a price. If a tout or broker can easily get you a residential address which need not be verified, is it not a great opportunity for crooks to create new identities for themselves. Imagine two Nandan Nilekanis one Chief of Aadhaar who has a great identity and does not require an Aadhaar number and will not give his biometrics for privacy reasons and then we have a scamster who has misrepresented himself and taken out an Aadhaar as Nandan Nilekani. Not long before the price for an Aadhaar will depend on which celebrities name you want ? Sharuk Khan, Sachin Tendulkar, Doni, Aish etc top the list..

Will Aadhaar give people the same excitement as an IPL match ? No way as Aadhaar promises nothing but a number and a bar code that will live on even after the person is dead and gone from this world.

Aadhaar is one mans dream and at best a good intention
Govt Policies need a lot more than good intentions, don’t they?

Read the full article in the blog http://aadhararticles.blogspot.com/2011/01/993-broker-menace-spoils-aadhaar-in.html

Let us hope in 2011 the Truth will Prevail and Aadhaar will be abandoned and remembered as another Indian scheme that failed and a scam

Ram 
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