Folks’s Democratic Social gathering (PDP) chief Mehbooba Mufti on Monday echoed the issues raised by opposition events in opposition to the J&Okay administration’s proposed plan to create an genuine, verified and dependable database of all households of the Union territory. Mufti mentioned the plan to create distinctive IDs for all households is one other “surveillance tactic to tighten the iron grip” on the lives of Kashmir residents.
She alleged that the folks of Kashmir are seen with deep suspicion and the proposed plan is “emblematic of the widening belief deficit”, particularly after 2019, the 12 months Article 370 offering particular standing to Jammu and Kashmir was abrogated.
“Creating ‘a novel household ID’ for J&Okay residents is emblematic of the widening belief deficit esp publish 2019. Kashmiris are seen with deep suspicion & that is one other surveillance tactic to tighten the iron grip on their lives,” the previous chief minister mentioned in a tweet.
The plan was unveiled at a current nationwide convention on e-governance in Katra in Reasi district the place Jammu and Kashmir Lt Governor Manoj Sinha and Chief Minister of Haryana Manohar Lal Khattar launched the Digital J&Okay Imaginative and prescient Doc. The administration mentioned the target behind the plan was the straightforward collection of eligible beneficiaries of assorted social welfare schemes.
Based on the imaginative and prescient doc, “Every household can be supplied with a novel alpha-numeric code known as JK Household ID. The information obtainable within the household database could be used to find out eligibility by computerized collection of beneficiaries for receiving social advantages.”
“The database would establish each household in J&Okay and would gather the essential knowledge of the household, supplied with the consent of the household, in a digital format.”
Congress chief spokesperson and former legislator Ravinder Sharma had questioned the federal government’s intention and likewise its capability to guard such digital databases from cyber assaults.
“Why does the federal government want to peek into all the things? They have already got sufficient knowledge by Aadhaar and are offering advantages by direct financial institution switch (DBT) mode,” Sharma mentioned.
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