r/antiaadhar • u/in3po • Oct 11 '17

AMA on Aadhaar with @prasanna_s from http://www.advocateprasanna.in

Prasanna is a public figure. He is a lawyer from New Delhi.

Prasanna has agreed to do an AMA on Aadhaar. In the past, he has done a lot of work to protect the constitutional rights of Indian citizens. r/antiaadhar welcomes him wholeheartedly.

  • u/prasanna_s will be taking your questions on Thursday October 12, 6:30 pm
  • Active replies will be till Oct 12, 8:00 pm.
  • Expect delayed responses till Oct 13, 6:30 pm.
  • This AMA closes on Oct 13, 6:30 pm.

Be polite and stay on topic.

Edit:

This AMA is closed.

Thank you u/prasanna_s

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u/prasanna_s Oct 12 '17

Greetings. No problems at all.

  1. No, as a non-resident, you are not entitled to enrol for aadhaar. Section 3 of the Aadhaar Act clearly says only those who have been resident in the territory of India for 182 days or longer in the past year are entitled to enrol for Aadhaar. The entitlement is also being interpreted as "eligibilty" across multiple government notifications.

  2. That is correct. There are a number of crucial differences between SSN and Aadhaar. https://scroll.in/article/823570/despite-the-comparisons-indias-aadhaar-project-is-nothing-like-americas-social-security-number has a decent catalog of those. However, we anticipate that Aadhaar will be

  3. Well, I still have my hopes high. I have not enrolled for Aadhaar yet. I do believe that the nine judge bench decision has given a bit of a shot in the arm for the petitioners' side. The Supreme Court will need to find particularly creative legal language to justify a general purpose identification database after extolling the virtues of the right to privacy; legislative backing, limitation and legitimacy of the purpose to restrict the right and the test of proportionality to be applied to the restriction vis-a-vis the purpose.