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They're not just asking for the number - they're asking for a scan of the entire card including all other details such as gender, age, and address. What was th

They're not just asking for the number - they're asking for a scan of the entire card including all other details such as gender, age, and address. What was this desperate need you talk of? Its original vision was to plug leakages and pilferage in governmental social welfare and subsidy programmes, and not as a mandatory national unique ID. It was targeted at only people who wanted to participate in those welfare and subsidy programmes, and not for every citizen. It hasn't replaced any of the other IDs - we needed n cards earlier, we still need those n cards. If a person didn't have any intention to travel outside India, there was no mandate to go get a passport. If a person didn't want subsidized rations, there was no mandate to get a ration card. But now we need this additional n+1 card and as much additional effort to link all the others to this card. How can the effort be markedly less when it requires every citizen to get their cards linked to everything else under duress of having some service cut, but with limited service centres and their employees very aware of the opportunities to extort money from desperate people?

dingo_bat 9y ago
> They're not just asking for the number - they're asking for a scan of the entire card including all other details such as gender, age, and address. Name, UID, gender, age, address these are not biometric info. In fact they are part of your ID. > What was this desperate need you talk of? I explained it in my comment. > Its original vision was to plug leakages and pilferage in governmental social welfare and subsidy programmes, and not as a mandatory national unique ID. It was targeted at only people who wanted to participate in those welfare and subsidy programmes, and not for every citizen. Vision and purpose can change. Nothing to worry about. Originally the purpose of cellphones was to talk and text. Now you watch Netflix on it. > It hasn't replaced any of the other IDs It will. Eventually there will be no need to link it to other cards because UID will be enough for everything.

dingo_bat 9y ago

> They're not just asking for the number - they're asking for a scan of the entire card including all other details such as gender, age, and address. Name, UID, gender, age, address these are not biometric info. In fact they are part of your ID. > What was this desperate need you talk of? I explained it in my comment. > Its original vision was to plug leakages and pilferage in governmental social welfare and subsidy programmes, and not as a mandatory national unique ID. It was targeted at only people who wanted to participate in those welfare and subsidy programmes, and not for every citizen. Vision and purpose can change. Nothing to worry about. Originally the purpose of cellphones was to talk and text. Now you watch Netflix on it. > It hasn't replaced any of the other IDs It will. Eventually there will be no need to link it to other cards because UID will be enough for everything.