Digital India is a project that is of tremendous significance if implemented properly. However, due to its shortcomings, Digital India may become the most controversial project of India till now. The worst part about Digital India project is that it has become the Digital Panopticon of India that also without any parliamentary oversight and judicial review.
In fact, Digital India is being implemented in actual contempt of Supreme Court that has directed (PDF) that Aadhaar cannot be made compulsory for government services. Indian government has informed the Supreme Court that Aadhaar is not compulsory for government services but the truth is that Aadhaar has been made compulsory for almost all the digital and non digital services of Indian government.
So bad is the situation that Twitter is censoring dissenting tweets regarding Aadhaar as well. Aadhaar is a subject that is heavily censored in India and any sort of dissent is immediately censored by platforms like twitter.
However, Supreme Court itself is responsible for this situation as it failed to declare the e-surveillance project Aadhaar as unconstitutional. Both Parliament of India and Indian Supreme Court have failed to fulfil their constitutional duties to protect the Fundamental Rights and Human Rights of Indian Citizens in this regard.
As a result unconstitutional and illegal biometrics collection is happening in India without any sort of control and reasonableness. Digital India has become the Digital Panopticon of India because our parliament and Judiciary has not done what the constitution fathers have mandated them to do.
Source: Centre Of Excellence For Protection Of Human Rights In Cyberspace (CEPHRC).