Dear Members,

Please find attached the letter issued by ESIC to Regional Joint Directors/Regional Sun Regional Offices for linking the Aadhar Card number with Employees' ESIC Card/E-Pehchan Card, etc.

Please do the needful so the employees can receive the best benefits at all times.

From India, Delhi
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Dear Pan Singh,

By the way, what is the "best benefit at all time," as you mentioned, that ESI beneficiaries will get in lieu of the already admissible benefits to them? In other words, without an Aadhar number, which is voluntary and not mandatory, ESI beneficiaries will be denied even their presently permissible genuine rights by the ESI after 30 days. In the absence of an Aadhar card, the beneficiary will have to carry a Government-issued photo identity card along with ESI's e-Pehchan Card. The question arises, why take two ID proofs? Does the ESI not recognize its own e-Pehchan Card in the absence of Government-issued photo identity cards? Moreover, the letter states that Aadhaar-based authentication of the beneficiaries under the ESI Act is IN ADDITION to the Biometric Pehchan Card-based authentication. So, what is the use of the e-Pehchan Card/Biometric Pehchan Card if additional authentication is also necessary through a Government-issued ID proof?

In fact, the authorities are creating not only a jungle of Pehchaan cards, including the Aadhar Card but also generating more problems in the lives of employees. These tactics could potentially become a source of corruption for the authorities before they allow genuine benefits to the employees.

Even in my case, when I registered for an Aadhar card in July 2011, the UIDAI lost the data. When I tried to register again in August 2015, the franchisee of UIDAI sent incorrect data, resulting in the UIDAI not issuing any Aadhar Card both times. In my wife's case, for an address change, the franchisee of the UIDAI transmitted the wrong address. Now, she has the NIRADHHAR Aadhar with the wrong address!

I had to register for the third time with a different franchisee. However, when I registered for a change of address on 1st May 2016, the data is still missing in the UIDAI even after one month. So, where is the question of reliance on the UIDAI's NIRADHAR Aadhar cards? When the Aadhar Card also needs a base for registration, such as DOB, address proof, identity of the registrants, and is issued with the wrong address, how can it be treated as an Aadhar Card? It is only a NIRADHHAR Card!

Finally, the question arises, when the Aadhar card is voluntary, why is compulsion created by over-enthusiastic Government and PSU authorities? Why do people readily comply with such directives without raising any questions? I wonder, why trade unions or employers are keeping total silence on such vague issues and the issue of unwarranted directions by the authorities in power regarding the misuse of their powers?

Thank you.

From India, Delhi
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