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Aadhar issues Supreme Court judgement on Aadhar The Court’s judgment in 2018, upheld the Aadhaar programme as a reasonable restriction on individual privacy (Article 21) to fulfil welfare requirements and dignity. Issues with Aadhar Inefficiencies in biometric authentication and updating, linking of Aadhaar with bank accounts, and the use of the Aadhaar payment bridge. Failures in authentication have led to delays in the disbursal of benefits. Denial of benefits due to cancellation of legitimate beneficiary names. Despite being designed to store finger and iris scans of most users, doubts about the success rates of authentication and the generation of “false…

19 March, 2021 Aadhaar

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