Aadhaar Linking Is More Dangerous

This refers to your article on Finance Bill ( A Show of One-upmanship?, April 23). Former finance minister P. Chidambaram has rightly said that “Aadhaar was an instrument to extend services and benefits… it was never intended to be tagged to income-tax returns and bank accounts…” And linking of Aadhaar compulsorily with PAN on the plea of eradication of black money does not hold good in a wider sense. Password is enough for safeguard for filing of ITRs. When net banking/ financial transactions are based on password, then how ITRs cannot be treated safe with passwords? The misuse of password, if any, is more dangerous for financial/net banking transactions than ITR filing. Aadhaar details can be easily cracked by any person. Recently, cricketer M.S. Dhoni’s wife Sakshi had complained about the leakage of Dhoni’s Aadhaar card details. Implementation of Aadhaar is against Supreme Court’s earlier decision. Also, it evades the right to privacy, guaranteed under the Constitution, for every citizen of India. In larger interest of the country, Aadhaar must be abandoned once for all. The use of Aadhaar is justified only for criminals. Mahesh Kapasy, New Delhi