Painful Aadhaar

The way the Government has forced Aadhaar on every step of life is more than a nuisance. The financial risk of leaked data is too high. Should a person’s bank account be attacked, suicide would be the only option.

It is in the interest of all citizens to abandon Aadhaar in toto. It is against privacy and unconstitutional too. The features of Aadhaar make all citizens untrustworthy, with the Government treating them all like criminals. The law says no innocent person should be punished but already Aadhaar has resulted in deaths.

M Kumar

Email

What about freedom?

The filing of an FIR by the UIDAI against a journalist for having exposed a breach in its Aadhaar database is reprehensible. Journalists Rather than appreciating and acknowledging the vulnerabilities associated with Aadhaar data and usher in measures to protect it from being breached, UIDAI sought to trample on the freedom of the press.

M Jeyram

Sholavandan, Tamil Nadu

Language at the UN

This is with reference to ‘As a matter of speech’ by NS Vageesh (From the Viewsroom, January 8). India is probably the only country whose own language does not find a place in UN. . Any Indian language could be our choice instead of English. If Spanish from a small nation like Spain can be a language at UN, why not an Indian language with a much larger following?

YG Chouksey

Pune

Fix accountability

This is with reference to the editorial, ‘Paying the price’ (January 8). While NPAs are on the rise, it is untenable on the part of banks to make a bounty out of failure to keep minimum balance.Can bank officials be penalised for failure to control NPAs? What is their accountability if they do not bring defaulters to book in time to recover dues?

When the banks were nationalised, the aim was to benefit the marginalised sections of society. In a country where people living below the poverty line outnumber others, penalising them for a trivial reason like insufficient balance smacks of indifference to their plight.

V Subramanian

Chennai

It is widely reported that the penal charges this amount would be utilised to meet the KYC requirement to link Aadhaar to each and every account and other potential losses. A conservative estimate would prove that this is nothing short of looting public money. If only banks cared to maintain their loan books efficiently they would not be in such a precarious situation.

Srinivasan Velamur

Chennai

It is sad and strange that banks are resorting to cheap tactics to recover NPAs worth crores. While banks do minute scrutiny for small loans do they go sleep for loans in crores? Cyber crimes have increased due to frauds in debit and credit cards and we are yet to become cashless, and we are charged for withdrawal of our own money!

Kamal Anil Kapadia

Mumbai

The hue and cry has come at a time when PSBs are in dire straits. While services for the poor are absolutely needed, some kind of cross- subsidisation is inevitable as the Government can in no way compensate banks for the loss-making services. It is strange that no such noises are heard when the Railways quietly increase charges and oil companies fleece the public.

Manohar Alembath

Kannur, Kerala

Great idea

This refers to ‘Rly trackmen to get quality jackets, industrial boots and lights’ (January 8). Railway Board Chairman Ashwani Lohani and his team walking along with patrolmen on the Delhi-Rewari track to get first-hand knowledge of the ordeals they face is unprecedented.

It is surprising why this did not occur to his predecessors. May this benefit the workforce in other departments too.

HP Murali

Bengaluru

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