Abbreviations, Acronyms and Glossary of Terms
Bibliography
Abbreviations and Acronyms
Bibliography
ABBREVIATION
Literature cited in this report
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1.
17. Yadav, Anumeha. Can biometrics stop the
Aggarwal, Ankita. 10 ways MGNREGA
theft of food rations? No, shows Gujarat
CMIE
Centre for Monitoring India Economy
workers do not get paid, Economic and
(published on Scroll.in), 17th December
DBT
Direct benefit transfer
Political Weekly 52(6), 2017
2016
HCD
Human centred design
ID
Identification (card)
LPG
Liquid petroleum gas (subsidy)
mAadhaar
Mobile Aadhaar
MGNREGS
Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme
KPI
Key performance indicator
OBC
Other Backward Classes
of AeFDS (Aadhaar enabled Fertilizer
OTP
One-time password
Distribution System) Pilot, 2019
NSAP
National Social Assistance Programme (social pensions)
PDS
Public Distribution System
and Public Distribution. State/UT-wise
in Public Programs with Direct Benefit
QR code
Quick-response code
Status of End-to-End Computerization
Transfers: Evidence from India’s Fuel
SoA
State of Aadhaar
of PDS Operations, 19th December 2017
SC
Scheduled Caste(s)
(accessed in October 2019)
ST
Scheduled Tribe(s)
UIDAI
Unique Identification Authority of India
UT
Union territory
2. BCG and Facebook, Encashing on digital:
Financial services in 2020, June 2017
3. Dutta, Siraj. Refusing to Learn From
Tragedy, Jharkhand Demands Aadhaar
for Rations, 8th February 2019
4. MicroSave. Niti Aayog. Assessment
5. Ministry of Consumer Affairs, Food
6. Ministry of Finance - Government of India.
The Economic Survey of India, 2018-19
7. National Council of Applied Economic
Research. Evaluation Study of Targeted
Public Distribution System in Selected
Glossary of Terms
TERM
Denial of service
DEFINITION
We define denial of service as not receiving a service (as reported by the respondents)
at the time of expected service delivery (such as collection of rations).
Error rate
The incidence of error in people’s Aadhaar information. We report error rates for data printed
on the card (name, date of birth, gender, address, photograph) and for some data that is
captured but not printed on the card (mobile phone, biometrics). Error rates are self-reported.
Exclusion
States, September 2015
8. National Social Assistance Program. State
level dashboards
9. Press Trust of India. Aadhaar to those who
18. Abraham, Ronald. Pattanayak, Akash.
Smartcards in India, 2016
36. Prasad, Shradhey Parijat. Sharma, Nishka.
Clearing the air on Aadhaar data breach,
Tantri, Prasanna. A Friend Indeed: Does
2018
The Use of Biometric Digital Identity Make
19. Aiyar, Yamini. There are no shortcuts to
building State capacity, 2018
20. Barnwal, Prabhat. Curbing Leakage
Subsidies and Black Markets, April 2016
21. Bhardwaj, Anjali. Johri, Amrita. Aadhaar:
When the Poor Get Left Out, 2018
22. CGAP. Dalberg. Future of Finance. Privacy
on the Line: What people in India think
about their data protection and privacy,
2017
23. Dorajiwala, Sakina. Narayanan,
Rajendran. Somanchi, Anmol. An
Welfare Programs Counter Cyclical?, 2018
37. Saha, Devanik. Did Aadhaar Glitches
Cause Half of 14 Recent Jharkhand
Starvation Deaths?, 2018
38. Sinha, Amber. Kodali, Srinivas. Information
Security Practices of Aadhaar (or lack
thereof): A documentation of public
availability of Aadhaar Numbers with
sensitive personal financial information,
2017
39. Reddy, U Sudhakar. In Telangana, pension
and NREGA hit Aadhaar wall, 2018
40. UIDAI. Compilation of Parliamentary
questions on Aadhaar, 2018
imaginary friend, 2018
24. Drèze, Jean. Gupta, Prankur. Khera,
Datasets used
41. Abraham, Ronald. State of Aadhaar
India’s Public Distribution System after the
Survey 2017-18 Datasets, Harvard
2019
Food Security Act, 30th January 2019
10. Press Trust of India. Centre gives 1-yr
25. Drèze, Jean. Khalid, Nazar. Khera,
deadline to states for rolling out one
Reetika. Somanchi, Anmol. Aadhaar and
nation, one ration card, 29th June 2019
Food Security in Jharkhand, 2017
11. The Aadhaar and other Laws
26. Gelb, Alan. Mukherjee, Anit. Navis, Kyle.
(Amendment) Ordinance, 2019
Technology and State Capacity: Lessons
from “Digital Krishna”, 27th June 2019
We define exclusion from a service as lack of access to the service because of inability to
18 lakh beneficiaries of National Food
27. IDInsight, State of Aadhaar Report 2017-
enrol or cancellation of existing enrolment
Security Act fail to link Aadhar number
Any person living in India. Our study cannot establish legal residence status
Capacity: Evidence from Biometric
prove citizenship, can't get it, 30th August
13. The Reserve Bank of India. Statistics:
accessed in October 2019
14. The Supreme Court of India. Judgment no.
35071/ 2012, 26 Sep 2018,
15. UIDAI. Circular: No denial of admission
in schools for want of Aadhaar and
Organising special Aadhaar Enrolment/
update camps at schools - reg., 5th
September 2018 (accessed October 2019)
16. UIDAI. Statistics on the nation-wide
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Reetika. Pimenta, Isabel. Casting the Net:
‘Retail Electronic Payment Systems Data’,
Resident
and benefits of Aadhaar, 2018
35. Muralidharan, Karthik. Niehaus, Paul.
Sukhtankar, Sandip. Building State
Additional literature reviewed and consulted
12. The New Indian Express (Odisha). Over
Share of people who are satisfied minus share of people who are dissatisfied
Sukhtankar, Sandip. Balancing the costs
get entry in final NRC; those who can't
before deadline, 17th September 2019
Net satisfaction
34. Muralidharan, Karthik. Niehaus, Paul.
18, 2018
Dataverse, 2018
42. Census of India, 2011
43. Intermedia and BMGF. Financial Inclusion
Insights - India survey, 2017
44. National Food Security Act. Database of
hunger-related deaths, 2015-18
45. Somanchi, Anmol. Paikra, Vipul. Database
of Aadhaar-related forgeries, fraud, 2018
46. UIDAI. Saturation data, 2019
28. Kapoor, Prerna. Nair, Remya. Roche,
Elizabeth. Aadhaar fails MGNREGS test in
Telangana, 2017
29. Khaira, Rachna. Data Breach: Aadhaar
Details up for Grabs for Just Rs 500, 2018
30. Khera, Reetika. Dissent on Aadhaar: Big
Data Meets Big Brother, 2019
31. Malhotra, Rishabh. Somanchi, Anmol.
Pension Tension: Aadhaar and Social
Assistance in Jharkhand, 2018
32. Manzar, Osama. Death by data, 2017
33. Ministry of Finance. The Economic Survey
computerization of PDS (e-PDS), 20th
of India 2015-16: Spreading JAM across
August 2018
India’s Economy, 2016
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