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XXX.2 March - April 2023
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Looking for Aadhaar in a Biometric Haystack


Authors:
Vyom Anil

  In October 2020, a case surfaced in Kinaru village of Muzaffarpur district, Bihar state, India: Reena Devi, a 20-year-old Dalit woman, recently widowed and the mother of two young children, had lost her Aadhaar number and was desperate to retrieve it. Like many others, Reena had no record of her Aadhaar number other than her Aadhaar card. And her card had been lost by an operator at an enrollment center after he took it from her to update her name and address. Her desperation was understandable. Without an Aadhaar, accessing any welfare scheme is impossible.   Insights → The…




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