Hindustan Times ( 23 March
2017 ) carries following news report :
“ Jaitley : Aadhar made mandatory to
check fraud “
Aadhaar might become the sole identity card in the future, finance
minister Arun
Jaitley said in Parliament
on Wednesday, a move that could possibly replace PAN, voter and ration
cards.
His remarks came during a debate on the finance bill, which the
Lok Sabha passed during the day.
“A STAGE MAY COME
THAT THE UNIQUE IDENTITY WILL BECOME THE ONLY CARD,” Jaitley
said, responding to the Opposition’s protest against the government’s decision
to make Aadhaar mandatory for filing tax returns.
“There are many countries where such a
situation exists. There is a social security number in America and in India it
(Aadhaar) could be the counterpart,” he
said.
He affirmed that it was a
deliberate step to prevent tax evasion and financial frauds that bleed the
economy.
Thank
you , Shri Jaitleyji :
Thank you
for your consideration to simplify the lives of millions of our CITIZENS and millions of
our BUSINESSES , as
requested in my following blogs :
Thursday, 12 May 2016
How many types of NUMBERS, do
Indian Companies need to register and acquire , to do business ?
Writing in MINT ( 02 May 2016 ),
Narayan Ramchandran quotes Manish Sabharwal , who has researched and listed the
following :
# Corporate Identity
Number........................................... ( 21 digits )
# Tax-payer Identification Number for
commercial taxes...... ( 11 digits )
# Service Tax Number...... ( Alpha-Numeric ) ....................
( 15 digits )
# Permanent Account Number - PAN (
Alpha-Numeric )........ ( 10 digits )
# Central Excise
Number..................................... ( PAN + 2 Characters )
# Provident Fund Number .................( Alpha-Numeric )...... (
11 digits )
# Profession Tax Registration Certificate
( Numeric )............... ( 9 digits )
# Profession tax Enrolment
Certificate ( Numeric )............. ( 9
digits )
# Income tax Deduction/Calculation Number (
Alpha-Numeric ) ( 10 digits )
# ESIC Number ( Numeric
)................................................ ( 17 digits )
# Labour Department Registration(State
specific alphanumeric) (13 digits )
# Importer-Exporter Code ( Numeric
)................................. ( 10 digits )
# Shops/Establishment Reg Number (
alphanumeric )............ ( 20 digits )
# Contract Labour Registration ( alphanumeric
).................. ( 15+ digits )
# Labour Welfare Board ( Numeric
)..................................... ( 5 digits )
# Higher Court Case Number ( Alphanumeric
)..................... ( 12 digits )
Now , CBDT and MCA are in the process of
integrating their back-end operations , to provide ONE SIMPLE IDENTITY to
companies, doing away with the above multiple numbers
Without doubt , this long overdue
simplification will make it easy to do business in India
But , it seems , that each State will have unique number ( for each
Company registered in its territory ), as far as GST is concerned
I hope , someday soon , an India Start-Up comes up with a digital
solution ( pasting, a unique RFID
sensor on the forehead of each child , at birth ? ) to get rid of all
the CARDS , a person needs to acquire in a
life-time , as mentioned in my following blog :
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Some 70 years ago , I had only one
card – the Ration Card
I was using it to buy , either wheat or bread or war-disposal biscuits from a Shivaji Park ration shop in Mumbai
Now I have,
* Driving License Card
* Senior Citizen Card
* Voting Card
* Credit Card
* PAN Card
* Aadhar Card ( UID )
Apart from sundry cards issued by private / commercial companies and NGOs
As if this was not enough , Central Government of India wants me to carry one more card !
National Population Register ( NPR ) is all set to issue,
RESIDENT IDENTITY CARD ( RIC )
It will contain demographic and biometric details of the owner and will be issued to 820 million adult Indians at a cost of Rs 5,552 Crores
I believe only those holding RIC will be entitled to receive subsidized food-grains under the Food Security Act
HOW ABOUT A CARD TO REPLACE ALL THE ABOVE-MENTIONED CARDS ?
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