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1 Apr 2024
Recently, the Aadhaar Based Payment System (ABPS) and its ramifications for the MGNREGS have received significant attention due to a number of concerns and issues.
| Relevance for Prelims: Aadhaar Based Payment System For MGNREGS Workers, Aadhaar Card, Moody’s Report On Aadhar, and Periodic Labour Force Survey (PLFS) Annual Report.
Relevance for Mains: Challenges in ABPS and MGNREGA. |
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In an era of increasing socioeconomic inequality, intensifying precarity in work, diminishing social security, and rural distress, technology can play a vital role, but it cannot be the state’s favoured child. The priority has to always remain the workers and their livelihood security.
| Prelims PYQ (2020):
Consider the following statements: 1. Aadhaar metadata cannot be stored for more than three months. 2. State cannot enter into any contract with private corporations for sharing of Aadhaar data. 3. Aadhaar is mandatory for obtaining insurance products. 4. Aadhaar is mandatory for getting benefits funded out of the Consolidated Fund of India. Which of the statements given above is/are correct? (a) 1 and 4 only (b) 2 and 4 only (c) 3 only (d) 1, 2 and 3 only Ans: (b) |
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| Mains Question: Examine whether the Aadhaar based Payment System (APBS) has been disadvantageous or problematic for marginalized and vulnerable groups in society. (15 Marks, 250 words) |
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