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Rethink Aadhaar

Rethink Aadhaar is a non-partisan campaign concerned about India's Unique Identification (UID) or Aadhaar project — its design, its expansion across welfare and finance, and the documented harms (welfare exclusion, surveillance risk, biometric failures).

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# Rethink Aadhaar

> Rethink Aadhaar is a non-partisan campaign concerned about India's Unique Identification (UID) or Aadhaar project — its design, its expansion across welfare and finance, and the documented harms (welfare exclusion, surveillance risk, biometric failures).

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## Scope
- **Country**: India (en-IN). All evidence and testimony is from Indian residents and Indian welfare programmes.
- **Issuing authority of Aadhaar**: Unique Identification Authority of India (UIDAI), a statutory body of the Government of India.
- **Position**: critical of coercive Aadhaar mandates; the campaign documents harm and supports voluntariness, opt-out, and de-linking. It is not anti-welfare; it argues Aadhaar mandates *worsen* welfare access for the poorest.

## Quick reference
- **Aadhaar**: a 12-digit unique number issued by UIDAI to Indian residents, linked to demographic and biometric (fingerprint + iris + photograph) data. Project began in 2009; the Aadhaar Act was passed in 2016.
- **Aadhaar Act, 2016**: full title — "Aadhaar (Targeted Delivery of Financial and Other Subsidies, Benefits and Services) Act, 2016." Passed as a Money Bill, a procedural choice that bypassed the Rajya Sabha and is itself contested.
- **K. S. Puttaswamy v. Union of India (2017)**: 9-judge Supreme Court bench unanimously held that the right to privacy is a fundamental right under the Indian Constitution.
- **K. S. Puttaswamy v. Union of India (2018, Aadhaar judgment)**: 5-judge bench upheld Aadhaar for welfare with caveats; struck down mandatory linking with bank accounts, mobile numbers, and school admissions; struck down Section 57 (private-sector use).
- **Documented harms**: welfare exclusion (PDS rations, NREGA wages, social pensions denied due to Aadhaar mismatch / authentication failure / biometric failure); starvation deaths linked to ration denial; surveillance and profiling risk; data breaches.
- **Beware of Aadhaar (2025)**: collective statement endorsed by 50+ Indian organisations on Human Rights Day (10 Dec 2025). See [Campaign 2025](https://rethinkaadhaar.in/campaign2025).

## Glossary (canonical entities)
- **Aadhaar** — Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aadhaar — Wikidata: Q1815901
- **UIDAI (Unique Identification Authority of India)** — Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unique_Identification_Authority_of_India — Wikidata: Q7889036 — Site: https://uidai.gov.in/
- **Supreme Court of India** — Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Supreme_Court_of_India — Wikidata: Q11602
- **Aadhaar Act, 2016** — Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aadhaar_Act,_2016
- **K. S. Puttaswamy v. Union of India** — Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Justice_K._S._Puttaswamy_(Retd.)_v._Union_of_India
- **NREGA** — National Rural Employment Guarantee Act, 2005; rural wage-employment guarantee programme. Aadhaar-linked since ~2017.
- **PDS** — Public Distribution System; sub
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