Gas survivors denied smart cards on flimsy grounds

Bhopal | Monday | 4th February, 2019

Summary:

She was asked to get a notice regarding change of name published in the MP Gazette, which she did but her children were not registered for the smart card. With certain additional documents, he submitted his application again but that too was rejected again on the ground “name not updated”.Tiwari then wrote to monitoring committee chairman, who intervened in the matter and got his name registered for the smart card. There is no reason why they should be made to run from pillar to post for registration if the spelling of their name doesn’t tally with the name written on Aadhaar card.” He, however, is not the only gas survivor, who faced problems in getting his smart card because of some minor typing or clerical error in their documents (if abbreviating somebody’s name could be called an error), there are hundreds, who have been denied registration for the smart cards on various flimsy grounds.In another such example, Muskan Bharani, who was known as Geeta Balwani before marriage, was also refused registration for her children’s “smart card” because of “name mismatch”. After running from pillar to post, she approached Justice Agrawal on January 19 and he again intervened to get registration of her children for the smart card.Both Tiwari and Bharani had to face problems in getting registration for “smart card” despite the fact that both of them had BMHRC identity number.Member of the monitoring committee, Purnendu Shukla, when asked about complaints that registration for smart cards was being denied on flimsy ground, said “Yes, there are complaints and Justice Agrawal taking serious note of those complaints had ordered a probe as to who was responsible for it..