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28 Oct, 7 tweets, 5 min read
Central Information Commission issues show-cause notice to Min of Elec & Infotech, NIC, asking why they don't have info about who created #AarogyaSetu & how, when it's a gov.in website. CIC called it "extremely preposterous"
livelaw.in/amp/top-storie…?
PIOs in the ministry of Elec & Infotech don't know who developed #AarogyaSetu and how. Meanwhile... Former CTO of Goibibo says he helped build the Covid tracking app.
1/n yourstory.com/2020/07/techie…
Also Deep Kalra, CEO of MakeMyTrip, was "pleased to share" that the company was involved in the development of India’s contact tracing app, #AarogyaSetu during the earnings call for Q4FY20. medianama.com/2020/06/223-ma…
Tech, health & transparency activists have long asked who built #AarogyaSetu coz Indians need to know who's accountable if it fails/harms, who gets data, who will maintain #privacy, who has govt's ear. @medianama found evidence for 33 contributors! medianama.com/2020/05/223-aa…
The CIC's response comes in response to RTIs filed by journalist and transparency activist @OfficialSauravD.
A few days ago, MakeMyTrip's Kalra reiterated that 30 of its people worked "18 hours a day" to build #AarogyaSetu. “There was a lot collaboration, we had other companies like 1mg participating, volunteers & lot of govt help, it was a classic PPP project" medianama.com/2020/10/223-de…
Also Indihood founder Lalitesh Katragadda is among the volunteers who made #AarogyaSetu. This word "volunteers", many tech and transparency activists have said, is a route to erasing chains of accountability. indianexpress.com/article/india/…

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Excellent story on how the govt has been steadily placing hurdles for Muslims seeking Indian citizenship. To those pro #CAA saying "Muslims can apply for citizenship in the normal route," here's why they can't: not eligible for Long Term Visa, the first step to get citizenship
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Please read the text of the #CitizenshipAmendmentAct before you believe or disbelieve gurus. It's barely 3 pages.
If you aren't clear why NPR (national population register) and NRC are connected, here, read this:
Step 1: Section 14A, Citizenship Act 1955, on creating a nationwide citizens register and issuing national identity cards. It was added in the Act in 2003.
Read step 2 next.
How are NPR and NRC connected?
Step 2: Read Citizenship Rules, which detail how the citizens register will be made.
This is a little longer but easier language.
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Having interviewed many grassroots activists who have organised 100s of protests with even over 10,000 people, I've learnt that takes YEARS of mobilising, conversations, leadership, to keep rallies non-violent, especially when the causes are often life & death. + #CAA2019
Twitterati condemning and giving sage advise to students to keep calm, not slap a cop when he slaps a student, probably don't recognise how HARD it is to be non-violent in the face of asymmetric power of the state. + #CAA2019
We can't forget that a student's slap is not equal to trained cops in riot gear shooting bullets, tear gas & a history of quelling protests of all kinds with cases of "kidnapping govt officials", "blocking govt work", causing nuisance etc. #CAA2019
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If the govt really wants to help persecuted minorities of neighbouring countries, then why have 62,000 Tamil refugees from #SriLanka, who are refugee camps in TN, been left out of the #CitizenshipAmendmentBill? They are mostly Hindus and Christians.
What about the 100,000 Tibetans, also living in India? Most of them are Buddhists.
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Whenever someone from BJP talks about #NRC for the while country, even if it's @AmitShah, even if u love this govt, ask, for your own sake:
1. First have you figured out what you'll do with NRC excluded in #Assam? Show me proof this method works to deport illegals.
1/n
2. The cut off date to show citizenship in Assam is 1971, when Bangladesh was formed. What is it for regions that don't border Bangladesh?
3. FRRO is the one monitoring visas and foreigners resident in India, picks out illegal stay. How will it work with #NRC?
2/n
4. The Census dept is making the National Population Register (NPR) for residents of India. It even collects biometrics. It's ongoing. Will this be distinct from @NRC? Do we need so many lists?
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