SHILLONG, MAR 29: The Meghalaya People’s Committee on Aadhaar (MPCA) on Tuesday demanded the state government not to enroll its citizens with the Aadhaar number in view of the Supreme Court’s interim order.
The decision was taken at public awareness meeting held at Khasi National Durbar Hall, Mawkhar to discuss the recently passed ‘The Aadhaar (Targeted Delivery of Financial and other Subsidies, Benefits and Services) Bill, 2016.
“We urged the state government not to pursue with the task of enrolling its citizens with the Aadhaar number by any means for any purpose,” MPCA co-convener Auguster Jyrwa said.
He said that this was in pursuant of the Supreme Court’s interim order that Aadhaar is voluntary and not mandatory and that the Supreme Court’s constitution bench on the right to privacy and Aadhaar is yet to give its ruling.
“The meeting also resolved that other Government Boards, Corporations and other bodies, including banks, corporates, etc., should not make having Aadhaar number as mandatory,” Jyrwa said.
Stating that the aadhaar bill in its present form cannot be accepted, he said, “Because it is highly excessive in cost, dependent on untested and unproven technology and instead seeks to encroach on the right to privacy through sharing of information as per section 57 of the bill.”
According to him, the real intent is to maintain perpetual surveillance on private citizens of the country who would be dehumanised in the process and thereby enslave the majority population as well, while allowing anyone residing in India for not less than 182 days to enroll.
Aadhaar is giving room for imminent internal insecurity since as per Section 9 of the bill, it does “confer any right of, or be proof of, citizenship or domicile in respect of an Aadhaar number holder”.
Meanwhile, the MPCA has also decided to organize similar awareness programmes on Aadhaar in all the district headquarters and other places in the state.
It has also urged citizens who have been and probably would be subjected to coercion, deceit, intimidation and threat of any kind for enrolling Aadhaar number to provide information to the MPCA.-By Our Reporter
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