Aadhaar not must, AG informs HC

Tribune News Service

Chandigarh, May 29

Aadhaar cards will not be required for lodging a complaint or for school admissions. Less than a month after the Punjab and Haryana High Court was told that a complaint was not entertained at CM’s Window in its absence, the Haryana Advocate-General said today that the government had not made the card mandatory.

The AG also claimed that the card was never demanded from anyone and it was not a mandatory requirement for availing the benefits of government schemes in the state.

Taking note of the assertion, Justice Rakesh Kumar Jain also made it clear that the state authorities would not demand the card from anyone for availing the benefits of government schemes in the state.

The developments took place on a petition against making Aadhaar cards compulsory for services, including admission, scholarships, fee concession in schools and even for submitting complaints through the CM’s Window.

In his petition, Sudhir Yadav through counsel Pardeep Rapria had alleged that the Haryana Government had made Aadhaar cards mandatory for admission to government schools and availing benefits under government scholarship schemes across the state. The petitioner alleged despite the clear order of the Supreme Court, schools and other authorities were insisting on furnishing the Aadhaar cards for admissions and other benefits. In cthe ase of non-submission, parents were being harassed by expelling the students from school.

After approaching the district education office against insistence on Aadhaar cards in a school, the petitioner went to register his grievance at the CM’s Window. Surprisingly; even there the petitioner was told that the Aadhaar card was a mandatory requirement for registering complaints.