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Aadhar: are women excluded?

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NEW DELHI, INDIA: Even while the Unique ID project in India - officially called Aadhar - is being touted as the biggest governmental initiative to ensure inclusiveness, the language of the draft National Identification Authority of India bill, prepared by the Unique Identification Authority of India, suggests that it has excluded a half of India's population: women.

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The draft uses the pronoun “his” to refer to the aadhhar number holder.

“Every resident shall be entitled to obtain an aadhaar number on providing his demographic information and biometric information to the Authority in such manner as may be specified by regulations,” says the draft bill in the beginning of the Chapter II, where it introduces the aadhar numbers. In every place thereafter–there is at least nine such instances–where the aadhar number holder is referred using the masculine pronoun: his.

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