BHOPAL : Despite the Supreme Court ruling that the Aadhar will not be compulsory for Indian citizens to take benefit of government services, various education boards including CBSE have made it mandatory for registration of students.
Due to this, there is heavy rush of the students at various Aadhar Card centres for preparations of Aadhar Cards. Aadhar Card Café located at MP Nagar, commercial complex near Mount Carmel School, Bag Mugalia and other places witnessed heavy rush of students.
Aadhar Cards are delivered within 90 days. But the students can hardly wait for that long.
The government had contended that the biometric-based system of unique identification was an essential tool to ensure transparency in its services. Rejecting the government’s plea, the Supreme Court said it will now have to publicise widely that the Aadhaar card was not mandatory. It also ruled that no authority shall seek Aadhaar cards from citizens to accord any services. However, on the discretion of the card-owner, it can be used for availing the subsidies in the public distribution system, gas cylinders and purchasing kerosene.
The biometric data collected by the Unique Identification Authority of India cannot be used for any other purpose except in criminal investigations with the permission of the court, the Supreme Court had maintained.
