[Reader-list] UID Scrapped! NASCUM calls for Bharath Bandh

[Anivar Aravind]

UID Scrapped! NASCUM calls for Bharath Bandh
The Fish Pond
http://thefishpond.in/edwin/2010/uid-scrapped-nascum-calls-for-bharath-bandh/

RNI, SPECIAL CORRESPONDENT, 2 October 2030

Prime Minister Mayawathi today scrapped the Sonia Manmohan UID
Tracking System (SMUT) today, just over two decades after it was
introduced, to almost universal acclaim. Gandhians hailed it as a
tribute to the Father of the Nation on his birth anniversary and
recalled that the first direct action of Gandhi was against carrying
ID cards in South Africa.

The move was supported by the association of school teachers—the
designated data collectors—who were getting beaten up every year by
those who did not get loans despite having SMUT numbers. Moreover,
every vacation of theirs was spent updating the database. Also
welcoming the move were the IAS officers’ association. SMUT exposed
IAS officers flying to China without departmental permission through
Kolkatta. They maintained that their interest had nothing to do with
the order of the Supreme Court that all official papers be signed with
the individual SMUT of the person concerned. The SC had held that
since SMUT was accessible to private parties, it has to be given under
RTI. The last ditch attempt by the IAS lobby to amend the law during
then Prime Minister Rahul Gandhi’s only term was struck down by the
court.

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"[It is not] possible to distinguish between 'numerical' and
'nonnumerical' algorithms, as if numbers were somehow different from
other kinds of precise information." - Donald Knuth