How Aadhar Keeps India in Tears, in Queues, and Searching for Kagaz

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Aadhar Cancelled”: How India's Biometric ID Is Denying Education and Rights | Ground Report At Delhi’s Inderlok Aadhar centre, Guddi Kumari breaks down after learning her daughter’s Aadhar has been cancelled—jeopardizing her school admission. With "Aadhar Cancelled" scrawled across official documents, Guddi is left helpless. This report documents the frustration of parents like Guddi and Chintu Sah who feel they're failing their children because of Aadhar-related issues. We also meet Shabnam, a resident of Kusumpur Pahadi, who’s been struggling for five years to complete her Aadhar eKYC. Despite visiting multiple Aadhar Seva Kendras and cyber cafes, her card remains deactivated—cutting her off from essential government benefits. This is a glimpse into how Aadhar deactivation and failed eKYC processes are depriving India's poor of their basic rights—education, food, and dignity. "It’s the transparency of the powerful that is needed and (what is needed is) increased privacy for the individuals, who are in that context powerless, or have less power. We are seeing the opposite actually happening and that is the trend that is going on for the last few years or decades. We see more opaqueness of those who also have power, but less privacy for individuals. We need to turn that around. Those scales have to be switched and that is one of the most important battlefronts that we have in our days." ---Wikileaks editor-in-chief Kristinn Hrafnsson on April 11 The anger gives way to tears... watch this video report to know more #thewire #aadharcard #ekyc #bjp Join The Wire's Youtube Membership and get exclusive content, member-only emojis, live interaction with The Wire's founders, editors and reporters and much more. Memberships to The Wire Crew start at Rs 89/month. https://www.youtube.com/channel/UChWtJey46brNr7qHQpN6KLQ/join

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