ECI, Executive To Talk About Voter Identification-Aadhaar Linkage To Address Discrepancies In Electoral Roll
Chief election Commissioner (CEC) Gyanesh Kumar will on tuesday hold a "high degree dialogue" at the linking of voter IDs with Aadhaar amid a clamour to weed out Elector Photograph Identity Card (EPIC)-associated discrepancies within the electoral roll in India.
Secretaries of the house and regulation ministries, in conjunction with the chief executive officer of UIDAI, are likely to speak about a "method to resolving the issue of the identical elector with a couple of EPICs," officers stated on the condition of anonymity.
"The middle trouble of the meeting is to increase a hundred percent insurance to all eligible human beings to sign in as electors. Logically, this will also suggest that the CEC discuss vital problems, inclusive of getting rid of the repeat EPIC problems so that the voting percentage increases. The scalability of the exercising might also be discussed as out of ninety-nine crore electors, around two-thirds already have Aadhaar. However, due to the fact that we've not seeded with the EPIC database, we will also speak the modalities to achieve this," they stated.
But the traits appear to contradict ECI's previous position that Aadhaar linking isn't mandatory. The legality of the whole system emanates from the election Legal Guidelines (Change) Act, 2021, notified in 2022, wherein Aadhaar as an identity card becomes established.
At the same time as the amendment did not prescribe any motion for now not supplying Aadhaar, the implementation may additionally make the technique correctly mandatory. The ECI in a submission to the splendid courtroom later said that Aadhaar is now not mandatory and that it is considering issuing "appropriate clarificatory adjustments" to enrollment paperwork to reflect this function.
However, shape 6B, which is a "letter of data of Aadhaar wide variety for the motive of electoral roll authentication," has not seen any adjustments in which an elector can say that s/he does not need to supply the Aadhaar.
Numerous civil society participants have raised numerous purple flags inside the beyond on the required linkage of Aadhaar.
"We realize from the latest revelation with ration playing cards, task cards, financial institution money owed, and so forth that obligatory linkage of any report with Aadhaar can create significant hassles for the general public, mainly negative human beings. It also leads to an enormous waste of time for frontline functionaries and reinforces the powers of the surveillance country. The frenzy to link voter IDs with Aadhaar, with no readability about the issue this is supposed to address, ignores that experience. Quite in all likelihood, this may create more extra issues than it resolves," development economist Jean Dreze, who is based totally in Jharkhand, told HT.
officials within the commission, but argue that by way of the use of Aadhaar, a "majority of the repeat EPIC hassle" will be resolved.
"Most of the people like to suppose that the issue might be resolved centrally, which would now not be the case. The whole lot will show up at the Electoral Registration Officer's level, and all floor verification tactics can be observed for deletion. ECI has no longer been able to scale the deletion procedure, the usage of photographic similar entries, and demographic comparable entries tools at a national degree. Consequently, Aadhaar linkages could, without a doubt, sort out the hassle," another respectable said.
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