Rajasthani women show their Aadhaar cards while standing in a queue to vote in a panchayat election in January 2016. PTI file photoAadhaar critics and sceptics have welcomed the Supreme Court’s dilution or quashing of various provisions of the law that affect the middle class but expressed disappointment at its failure to read down Section 7, which makes Aadhaar mandatory for accessing welfare. “There is a class bias.”He clarified: “It is not that people who do not have Aadhaar are (alone in) being denied services. According to Dey and Anjali Bhardwaj of the Satark Nagrik Sangathan, the government’s claims of massive savings from the targeted delivery of subsidies via Aadhaar linking are not backed up by data. For the disabled, enrolment itself has been a major problem, particularly because of the difficulties of collecting their biometric data.

Source: The Telegraph September 26, 2018 22:30 UTC