Pandey is a Maharashtra cadre IAS officer of 1984 batch.
Increased acceptance of Aadhaar as a proof to validate credentials has led to a higher number of downloads of the unique ID.
The court was hearing petitions challenging the Aadhaar scheme.
Describing DBT for LPG as a 'tremendous success,' Oil Minister M Veerappa Moily said the programme, when implemented throughout the country, would help save Rs 8,000-9,000 crore (Rs 80-90 billion) of subsidy from going to unintended beneficiaries.
The intial round of efforts did not achieve the objectives fully.
'We have to go through the process of obtaining informed consent.'
Biometric authentication is based on the unscientific and questionable assumption that there are parts of human body that does not age, wither and decay with the passage of time.
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