‘Big Brother’ in India Requires Fingerprint Scans for Food, Phones and Finances

Re:‘Big Brother’ in India Requires Fingerprint Scans for Foo... by shripadk on Saturday April 07, 2018 @04:17PM (#16782667)

> I answered that as long as there are subsidies there is going to be leakage

It used to be the case before but is no longer the case. Aadhaar, even by this very article's admission, states that "Officials estimate that taxpayers have saved at least $9.4 billion from Aadhaar by weeding out “ghosts” and other improper beneficiaries of government services."

$9.4 billion is a huge amount of money saved by the exchequer. That is almost 2% of the India's annual budget. In a country with a very small tax base, every rupee saved is an earning in itself.

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Re:‘Big Brother’ in India Requires Fingerprint Scans for Foo... by intended on Monday April 09, 2018 @04:12AM (#16791241)

That is untrue - aadhar introduces the problem of false rejections.

First - Most of the savings which the govt has attributed to aadhar they later walked back and admited it was due to gas price reductions and not because of aadhar.

Second - auth failures result in people not getting their ration- these are then counted as savings by the govt. if they were correctly accounted as a liability not only would the savings vaporize, additional costs would appear.

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