Supreme Court orders not to make Aadhaar card mandatory for welfare schemes
The central government has earlier announced that the Aadhaar card would be made mandatory for obtaining benefits from around 30 central welfare schemes which even includes the mid-day meal given to school children.
Union Finance Minister during discussion on Financial bill few days back, said that the government was trying to make a single identity card for all citizens of India.
FM earlier stressed on the importance of Aadhaar card since it is safer.
However, SC did not rule out the mandatory Aadhaar card for filing income tax as well as to create bank accounts.
Welcoming the order of the Apex court, Bharatiya Janata Party claimed that around 108 crore people have an access to Aadhaar card.
All opposition parties including Congress, TMC and CPI(M) have welcomed the order of SC.
However, Government of West Bengal sent a letter to central government already stating that they are not willing to make Aadhaar card mandatory for its state welfare schemes like rice at Rs 2 per kilogram.
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