BANGALORE: The Unique Identification Authority of India (UIDAI) has hit a legal bump. Questioning the project's legality, V K Somasekhar, founder-trustee of Grahak Shakti, and Mathew Thomas, a retired Army officer of Citizens' Action Forum, have issued notices to UIDAI chairperson and Planning Commission chairperson and deputy chairperson.

In a move that could become controversial and be seen as an invasion of privacy, Haryana's health department has started equipping all community health centres across the state with a "Mother and Child Tracking" system that will register and track all expectant mothers for the duration of their pregnancies. Under this plan it will be mandatory for all village-based health workers and anganwadi staff to register every woman who becomes pregnant, after which the software-driven tracking system will monitor their status until the birth of a child. The tracker will then follow each mother and child through the process of inoculation.

"t whereas families with Antodaya cards get 35 kg per month, irrespective of the size of the family. The above figure of beneficiaries has been arrived at after weeding out bogus ration cards in a recent drive. "It's a difficult and time consuming process as removing the white card of a genuine beneficiary will undermine the very purpose of the scheme," said Mr B. Harikrishna, deputy director of the civil supplies department. The government is also not waiting to link Aadhaar to all the schemes until the entire population is enrolled. "We are planning to take it up fair price shop-wise. We are identifying beneficiaries yet to be enrolled under every fair price shop and mobilising them to get themselves enrolled," he maintained. By doin"

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