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The KYC menace: Aadhaar-linked chaos frustrates daily transactions
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The Election Commission's special intensive revision of electoral rolls presently underway in Bihar has come in for much criticism for its rigid approach, which is being deemed respondent-unfriendly, and with possible political consequences. The Supreme Court's instruction last week to include Aadhaar is supposed to ease this situation somewhat.
However, in Aadhaar, and now its latest insistence on biometrics, we may have created another monster, which, in the name of adding to the ease of countless transactions, we need to undertake online almost daily, and which actually results in hindering many, making most people tear their hair.
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