Context: From the New Year, all wages under the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (MGNREGA) scheme must be paid through an Aadhaar-based payment system (ABPS), which requires workers’ Aadhaar details to be seeded to their job cards.
Background:
Need:
1. Preventing Leakages and Combating Black Money:
2. Aadhaar-based Direct Benefit Transfer:
3. Jan Dhan Yojana and Financial Inclusion:
4. Social Inclusion of Migrant Population:
5. Door-Step Banking through AePS:
6. Expediting Passport Processing:
7. Utilizing Digi Locker for Document Safety:
8. Empowering Residents with Trusted Identity:
9. Paper-Less User Verification and Instant Services:
Issues:
Current status of Aadhaar linking:
Way forward:
Moving Beyond Technological Blame:
Advocate for a shift from blaming technology for governance issues and emphasize the importance of constitutional propriety and accountability in the use of technologies.
Nomenclature Overhaul:
Propose a change in the terminology from "beneficiaries" to "rights holders" for individuals receiving welfare measures, highlighting the shift towards recognizing entitlements as rights.
Feedback Mechanism Importance:
Stress the necessity of implementing a feedback mechanism to gather user experiences from recipients and field-level bureaucrats, ensuring a more inclusive and responsive governance approach.
Voluntary Aadhaar Linking Concerns:
Express concerns about the unpredictability of making Aadhaar linking with voter ID voluntary, drawing from prior experiences with Aadhaar in other domains, raising questions about potential misuse of authority
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