The state government at a meeting with the school education department today directed that money meant for tablets or smartphones for students of Class XI and XII should be disbursed after it is linked with the Aadhaar of the respective students, from next year.
Sumnesh Joshi, Deputy Director General, Ministry of Communications said that the country has seen one of the fastest roll out of 5G services across the world and has taken the lead in 6G.
In an unprecedented move, the Centre has allowed the Union Public Service Commission (UPSC) to utilise Aadhaar-based authentication to verify candidates' identities voluntarily, both at the time of registration and during several stages of examinations and recruitment.
According to Swain, three different buckets of opportunities got created over the last three-four years.
Amidst the chief minister's intervention into the crisis, hundreds of letters pertaining to Aadhaar deactivation started flooding. Most of them are by the Matuas in East and West Burdwan districts, where dozens of families have pressed the panic button.
The Supreme Court had in September 2018 declared Aadhaar as constitutionally valid and held that the biometric ID would remain mandatory for the filing of income tax returns and allotment of PAN cards.
The former civil servants said that worrying reports are already coming in of people in different parts of India rushing in panic to obtain the necessary birth documents.
The elderly men, according to their family members and police, were suffering from severe anxiety especially in the wake of adoption of the Citizenship Amendment Bill in both the Houses of Parliament, as their names and other particulars in the EPICs and the Aadhaar Cards were not matching perfectly.
In an open dare to the Prime Minister at a rally of the Trinamul Youth Congress at Rani Rashmoni Avenue, Miss Banerjee threw down the gauntlet of a “referendum” under UN supervision.
She also cautioned him not to “add fuel to fire” if he didn’t not know “how to douse it smouldering in Assam, North- East, Delhi and other parts of the country in the name of implementing the black Citizenship Amendment Act-National Register of Citizens.”
