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Nandan Nilekani, Aadhaar’s architect, envisioned it as 'an open identity-verification system that can be plugged into any application'. Officials have taken from it the opposite lesson: that their department must have its own Aadhaar. They are thereby recreating the very problems it was meant to solve: government wastage, duplicative demands for data and a baffling array of IDs to keep track of. In the guise of cutting bureaucracy, the Indian state is instead entrenching it.
Which of the following, if true, would most weaken the argument that departmental ID systems are 'recreating the very problems' Aadhaar was meant to solve?
A) Aadhaar biometric data was compromised in two major security breaches last year.
B) Nandan Nilekani privately supported the creation of department-specific IDs as interim solutions.
C) Seventy percent of Indians report confusion when managing multiple identification documents.
D) India's Supreme Court mandated cross-departmental interoperability for all ID systems starting next month.
E) Bank account openings using department-specific IDs now take only 48 hours compared to 72 hours previously.
A) Irrelevant to duplication—discusses security flaws unrelated to bureaucratic recreation.
B) Veracity unknowable; passage never addresses Nilekani’s current views.
C) Strengthens by showing the array of IDs causes problems.
D) Correct: Mandated interoperability directly addresses duplication and wastage.
E) Shows efficiency gain but ignores duplicative demands and wider bureaucracy.
The argument links departmental IDs to recreating problems like wastage and duplication. Weakening requires evidence that departmental actions avoid these outcomes. Option D implies the core redundancy issue will be legislated away, undermining the causal claim.
Which of the following, if true, would most weaken the argument that departmental ID systems are 'recreating the very problems' Aadhaar was meant to solve?
A) Aadhaar biometric data was compromised in two major security breaches last year.
B) Nandan Nilekani privately supported the creation of department-specific IDs as interim solutions.
C) Seventy percent of Indians report confusion when managing multiple identification documents.
D) India's Supreme Court mandated cross-departmental interoperability for all ID systems starting next month.
E) Bank account openings using department-specific IDs now take only 48 hours compared to 72 hours previously.
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Focus on what would prevent the replication of bureaucratic problems like duplication, not general efficiency gains.
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A) Irrelevant to duplication—discusses security flaws unrelated to bureaucratic recreation.
B) Veracity unknowable; passage never addresses Nilekani’s current views.
C) Strengthens by showing the array of IDs causes problems.
D) Correct: Mandated interoperability directly addresses duplication and wastage.
E) Shows efficiency gain but ignores duplicative demands and wider bureaucracy.
The argument links departmental IDs to recreating problems like wastage and duplication. Weakening requires evidence that departmental actions avoid these outcomes. Option D implies the core redundancy issue will be legislated away, undermining the causal claim.
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