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Freelance scholars and student volunteers interested in action-oriented research, socio-economic rights and related issues.
Aug 3, 2018 16 tweets 5 min read
(1/16) "The poor are the guinea pigs for immature financial technologies"

Jean Drèze on the Airtel-Aadhaar scam, Aadhaar Payment Bridges System, 'LALA' rules & the resulting havoc on fragile lives of the poor.

Thread.

telegraphindia.com/opinion/done-b…

#Pensions #AadhaarFail #Airtel (2/16) Vimla Devi from Murhu Jharkhand explains how she has been running pillar to post to find out about her pensions. She last received them in Sept. 2017.

Aug 1, 2018 11 tweets 6 min read
(1/11) @rssharma3, Twitterati has already had a hearty meal of this but in case you haven't followed, contrary to all you Aadhaar Uncles' claims of curbing (all sorts of obscure) fraud, Aadhaar has instead enabled many kinds of fraud. #AadhaarFail (2/11) What if you find that your Aadhaar number is linked to a bank a/c without consent?

Certainly happened with Mr. Kulkarni. He was lucky it was his own account. What if yours get linked to an account used for unscrupulous activities? #AadhaarFail

mumbaimirror.indiatimes.com/mumbai/cover-s…
Jul 22, 2018 25 tweets 8 min read
Questions to NN following from @virsanghvi interview: NN(@2.30) "I wrote to the Prime minister about privacy in 2010" - would be kinda nice to see what exactly was said. Can he release that correspondence? NN@2.45: "I went back to being a good guy in the last few months" (we dispute this self-certification)..."people have realized that there are lots of things happening in the world which were far more pernicious".
No, NN. ...2/n
Jul 13, 2018 8 tweets 3 min read
13 deaths in jharkhand since September 2013 Premani Kunwar was one of them
Jun 4, 2018 18 tweets 10 min read
*Aadhaar Propaganda Lives OK: CGD’s fishy blog*

The most recent CGD (@CGDev) blogpost on Aadhaar has prompted a few questions.

Thread (1/17) #AadhaarFail

2/17: What credibility does lead author @AlanHGelb, who was party to fabrication of the oft-cited $11 billion Aadhaar savings figure for the World Development Report 2016, have on this issue?

The bogus figure originated in the spotlight co-authored by Gelb. See images.
Apr 1, 2018 6 tweets 2 min read
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"Aadhaar, A Double Whammy" by Reetika Khera

#AadhaarFail 1/6 "In the final hearings on the Aadhaar project in the Supreme Court, the Attorney General's main (perhaps only) line of defence is that the court must 'balance' the right to life of millions, which he claims is guaranteed by Aadhaar, with the right to privacy." 2/6
Sep 25, 2017 20 tweets 9 min read
Still believe #Aadhaar is good for #welfare? Here's why it's not. Glimpses from a recent PDS- Aadhaar Survey in Jharkhand /0

#AadhaarFail Olasi Hansda*, a widow, cannot walk, hence cannot authenticate herself = No grains since Jan. /1

#AadhaarFail