Not in favour of linking Aadhaar with voter id, says IT minister Ravi Shankar Prasad
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Union IT minister Ravi Shankar Prasad has said that he personally is not in favour of linkinh Aadhaar card with Voter ID card.
"I am not saying this as an IT minister... My personal opinion is Aadhaar should not be linked with the voter ID card," Prasad said on Sunday at an event in Bengaluru.
"The electoral photo-identity cards (EPIC) has been already linked with the web portal of the Election Commission of India and you would get election-related information such as your polling booth and its address. Aadhaar is not related to this," he further explained.
However, Ravi Shankar Prasad strongly defended linking of Aadhaar with bank accounts as he believed that the step would bring more transparency in the system.
Earlier this month, the Supreme Court expressed its concerns over misuse of Aadhaar data by private firms. The apex court felt that UIDAI may not be sufficient to deal with the problem as there is no data protection law in the country and in a situation like this data collected under Aadhaar might be porne to danger.
A five-judge Constitution bench headed by Chief Justice Dipak Misra asked Ajay Bhushan Pandey, the CEO of UIDAI, about the safeguards employed to restrain private entities from parting with sensitive information of citizens for commercial gains while conducting the authentication of Aadhaar.
Meanwhile, addressing concerns over data breach, the Centre said that data collected under Aadhaar was secure since it was kept in a building that has 10 ft thick walls.
Representing the Centre, Attorney General KK Venugopal also quoted former Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi in the Supreme Court to put forth its arguments supporting Aadhaar.
He added that the Aadhaar programme was not a “fly-by-night effort to score some brownie points” and urged the apex court to spare a few minutes and allow the CEO of UIDAI to present a power point presentation to quell all apprehensions behind the unique 12-digit biometric identification scheme.
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