Social Security & Economic Security to All Citizen of India & Universe

Indian Social Security, an NGO conceptualized & supported by social workers of various states, NGOs, Professors of IIT and students, has filed a Public Interest Litigation with Supreme Court that is heard on November 17,2008 .This PIL demands a ‘National Database System’ to achieve Social Security & Economic Security to all citizen of India with a single ‘Centralized National Database Number’ containing all the information of each citizen in order to maintain an authentic data to curb down fake identity, infiltration, terrorism, poverty, corruption, tax evasion.

Explaining the objectives of this PIL Gurbinder Singh from ‘Indian Social Security’ said, “System for People will be created by People.”

He said that social security is still a distant dream as present system of governance has no measures of adequacy for fair distribution of welfare schemes like subsidies to deprived citizen of the country when they are in need due to non- availability of authentic data of the Location wise authentic data of Deprived Citizen. Instead, In Current Situation, all the social benefits are delivered vide a channelized structure of Hierarchy Structure of Government Bodies, Ministries, Departments, Block Panchayats, Local authorities, Where the Purpose of the Benefits are evaded in Corruption, Thus leads to major atrocities for the deprived Citizen..

Petitioner Gurbinder Singh – Indian Social Security Started

Petitioner Gurbinder Singh – Indian Social Security Started
If social security & Economic Security is to be ensured to each and every deprived citizen of this country, A national Database is a basic need of Government. Nobody can deny this fact. Even our Constitution endorses it vide Citizenship Act 14A. A ‘National Database System’ will be a first step in this direction,” he said. He highlighted Chief Justice, the fact & importance of National Database to be the Base of Governance, He added, that even a School or Institution, or Supreme Court cannot run without authentic Database.

Further He said “The intentions of the Central Government are limited to provide social and economic security to its employees only rather than all citizen of India. Over 55% citizens live below the poverty line, Over 40% Indian kids are malnourished,” he added, that Government maintained data of their employees for their Social & economic Security but Why has there been no intensions for even maintaining a Authentic Database of rest of their tax Payer Citizen.

He also said that the main security agencies and public policing agencies in India do not have any centralized data of citizens to curb down the sensitive problems of terrorism, infiltration, and the movements of violent organizations. According to him, this non-centralization of citizen data has increased the burden on law enforcement machinery.
He said Please see Pg 213 of PIL Annexure - 800 active cells of terrorism are working in our country, a statement of chief security advisor to P.M.

Singh expressed that the central governance has no method to deal with natural calamities in terms of appropriate subsidy distribution system to the affected citizens as no authentic data of any given affected area is available with them. As a result of this, needy people do not get any relief in spite of the support of funds and relief measures.

This database system will lead to increased taxation, direct delivery of subsidy & other social welfare benefits like Old-Age pension to citizen, fair polling, secularism, speedy implementation of law & justice, said Singh.

Chief Justice said
I understand your noble intentions but you are trying to compare India with all other developed countries, where this kind of system runs. You approach Government for this

He Presented the fact to Chief Justice that:
“ If most of the Developing & Developed countries including Argentina, China, Brazil, other 50 countries are having social security mechanism to create a prosperous culture of equality, fair distribution of resources, speedy Justice, control of human intensions of corruption, then Why not in India?” asked Singh.

Singh Added,
Your Honour This is demotivationg, National database is the base of Governance, even a school or supreme court cannot operate without a database, then how come country of billion does not needs his kind of database. This is dilemma of India that there are 35 separate smart cards, each card is a burden to the taxpayer money of minimum about 1000crores - Rs.5000 crores FOR EACH CARD on average per year, with E Governance of Centralization this cost can be reduced to 25 times the existing cost

The Chief Justice said, In India Population is the issue therefore this kind of good system needs a long wait, Petitioner replied; Your honour that is Why I would like to present the fact that till you do not have the data of all citizen, You may not know the count of population & make this statement. Petitioner added, Population of India is the Power of India, Not the crises in India, If there be an authentic database to calculate the Citizen, the honorable court will himself know the Fact, he said. (According to Chief Statistician of India, Mr. Pranab Sen – said in an interview on 30th July in Lok Sabha Channel, That The available data with the govt. is Inadequate, Therefore How can the Policies for People be accurate, credible & Factful.)

Singh said “Last statement your honor, Government has most e-governance implementations in collection of taxes, others but Government has not initiated any single move as far as e-governance strategy in delivering that money to the deprived people”

Lawyers behind the petitioner applauded softly.

Gurbinder Singh opined that the motive of making an effort for social security through the proposed ‘National Database System’ is based on a fact that the purpose of prosperity in a country of billions cannot be achieved without the wisdom and creation of positive social and economic systems in the direction of humanity.

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