September 26, 2021 

Three years ago today, on September 26, 2018, the Supreme Court of India delivered its final judgment in the cases challenging the constitutionality of the Aadhaar/UID programme. In its judgment, the Court circumscribed the Aadhaar project’s scope to a limited number of purposes, finding it constitutional only by reading it down. The Court permitted the use of Aadhaar authentication solely to welfare programmes (where Aadhaar continues to cause mass exclusions) and to link with PAN numbers for income tax (which continues to be extended). 

Today, more than 500 prominent citizens and organisations have written to the Election Commission of India, strongly opposing a fresh proposal to the Law Ministry to link voter ID cards (and the "EPIC" database) with Aadhaar, as violative of the Supreme Court's judgment and detrimental to our right to privacy and right to vote, and calling for it to be withdrawn. 

The statement, which calls this proposal a “dangerous idea that can disenfranchise people and fundamentally alter the structure of our democracy,” has been endorsed by 24 campaigns and organisations, including electoral reform group, Association for Democratic Reforms; civil rights groups from across the country including the Peoples’ Union of Civil Liberties, Mazdoor Kisaan Shakti Sangathan (MKSS), People’s Union for Democratic Rights, and the National Alliance of Peoples’ Movement (NAPM) Jharkhand; and digital rights groups such as Rethink Aadhaar, Article 21 Trust, Internet Freedom Foundation, the Bachao Project, and the Free Software Movement of India. It has also been signed by 480 prominent individuals, including former civil servants, journalists, lawyers, social activists, researchers, and students. 

The Election Commission has claimed that this will help clean up voter rolls, and that any linkage will be “voluntary”. As previous representations have noted, including a recent one made by the Constitutional Conduct Group, the proposal raises concerns of mass disenfranchisement, increased voter fraud, given the large number of documented discrepancies in the Aadhaar database, and of violating citizens’ right to privacy by enabling voter profiling through the linkage of datasets. 

The right to vote cannot be imperilled by irresponsibly linking databases and using an opaque algorithm to “verify” identities. Technological solutions cannot replace responsible administration. Timely door-to-door verification of voters remains the most effective method of updating electoral rolls and ensuring accuracy of voter data.

• Jagdeep Chhokar, former Professor and Dean of IIM, Ahmedabad, and a founding member of the Association of Democratic Reforms, said, “The insistence of the Election Commission on linking the voter ID data with Aadhaar is quite surprising, because, in the past, at least two former Chief Election Commissioners have cautioned against this linkage. The UIDAI seems to be pressuring the Election Commission for this linkage, seemingly to gain legitimacy for the Aadhaar scheme. It seems finally the then-incumbent Chief Election Commissioner caved in and agreed to do this. This was stopped by the Supreme Court in 2015 as soon as it came to the attention of the Supreme Court. Now again, the Election Commission, in collaboration with the Law Ministry seems to be trying to circumvent the Supreme Court’s directions, which is inappropriate and not acceptable. It is hoped that the Supreme Court will not take kindly to this attempt to circumvent its instructions, by a sleight of hand, or a play on words.”

• Reetika Khera, development economist and Associate Professor at IIT, Delhi, and expert on the impact of technology on welfare pointed out: “Remember that during UPA-2, Aadhaar was peddled as inclusive and transformational for welfare programmes. This was done on the basis of a claim, unsubstantiated at the time and proven false later, that the ration, and NREGA databases were infested with ghosts and duplicates. The same is being repeated now. Where Aadhaar has been forcibly integrated (e.g., in the PDS, NREGA, social security pensions, scholarships, etc.), people struggle to retain or regain access to entitlements. Technocratic unaccountability has been added to bureaucratic red tape, spending money on rectifying demographic errors in the Aadhaar database. They have fallen victim to fraud, and in extreme cases, outright excluded from their legal entitlements. The same issues - fraud, corruption, exclusion - will crop up if Aadhaar is allowed in the voting process in any manner.”

• Maansi Verma, of Article 21 Trust said: “The Election Commission’s proposal to link Aadhaar and voter IDs violates the Supreme Court’s judgement, and is detrimental to our right to privacy, and our right to vote."

READ THE FULL STATEMENT AND LIST OF SIGNATORIES BELOW:

Resist linking Voter ID and Aadhaar!

The Election Commission of India has moved a proposal to the Law Ministry to link voter ID cards (and the "EPIC" database) with Aadhaar. This is a dangerous idea which can fundamentally alter the structure of our democracy. 

Rethink Aadhaar joins almost 500 prominent individuals, including former civil servants, journalists, social activists, researchers and students to strongly oppose this proposal, and call on the Election Commission of India to withdraw its plans. The signatories to the statement include electoral reform group, Association for Democratic Reforms; civil rights groups from across the country such as the Peoples’ Union of Civil Liberties, MKSS, Adivasi Women’s Network, Chetna Andolan, and NAPM Jharkhand; and digital rights groups including Rethink Aadhaar, Article 21 Trust, the Internet Freedom Foundation, the Bachao Project, and the Free Software Movement of India. 

Linking Voter ID and Aadhaar is an ill-thought, illogical, and unnecessary move which could undermine our electoral democracy, and impact voters’ trust in the electoral system. Indians’ right to vote cannot be imperilled by irresponsibly linking databases and using an opaque algorithm to “verify” identities. Technological solutions cannot replace responsible administration. Timely door-to-door verification of voters remains the most effective method of updating electoral rolls and ensuring accuracy of voter data.

The Election Commission has claimed that this will help clean up voter rolls, and that any linkage will be “voluntary”. As we noted in our earlier representation, and as the Constitutional Conduct Group has recently noted, we are deeply concerned that this will almost certainly lead to mass disenfranchisement, could increase voter fraud, given the mass discrepancies in the Aadhaar database, and could violate people’s right to privacy by enabling voter profiling through the linkage of data sets. This proposal would violate the judgment of the Supreme Court of India in Justice K.S. Puttaswamy (retd.) & Anr. v. Union Of India (Aadhaar judgment) which limited the use of Aadhaar authentication solely to welfare programmes and to link with PAN numbers for the purposes of income tax. Any proposal to link the UID with Voter IDs must be rejected. 

We are concerned about the following harms from such a proposal

First, Aadhaar is not proof of the right to vote. Aadhaar is not, and was never meant to serve as proof of citizenship, which is why Aadhaar numbers were issued to all residents and not citizens. Under the Representation of Peoples’ Act, only citizens who are resident in India have the right to vote. Linking the two is senseless, and would be without any basis - in addition to being a colossal waste of public funds. Deletion of voters based on whether their records in the EPIC database corresponds to Aadhaar records has no legal basis. 

Second, such a proposal will almost certainly cause mass disenfranchisement. This is not the first time that the government has tried to link Voter ID and Aadhaar to “purify” the electoral rolls. In 2015, the Central government introduced the National Election Roll Purification and Authentication Programme (NERPAP), and during the Aadhaar challenge, the Supreme Court passed an interim order on August 11th 2015, asking the ECI to suspend Aadhaar voter linkage. As this was never permitted by the Supreme Court in its final judgement and order, proceeding with this would be in violation of the Supreme Court’s judgement. Despite this, there was rampant misuse of Aadhaar data. In 2018, the chief electoral  officer of Telangana and Andhra Pradesh linked Aadhaar data with voter identity cards. In 2018, during the Telangana Assembly Election, people found out that at least 55 lakh voters had been arbitrarily disenfranchised. It was only after public outrage around these arbitrarily deletions, that the government rolled this back. 

Previous attempts to use Aadhaar to “clean-up” databases of other government registries, like MGNREGA and PDS, have resulted in mass disenfranchisement, and thousands of citizens have been arbitrarily deleted from systems without any notice. For example, a study from Jharkhand found that 90% of ration cards cancelled as “bogus” during Aadhaar linking were real. In 2018, even the CEO of UIDAI admitted that authentication failure for government services was as high as 12% - this translates into millions of affected persons. A recent J-PAL study in Jharkhand also found that Aadhaar based verification “either did not reduce errors of inclusion or leakage or did so at the cost of increased exclusion error”, with a high error rate of between 22% and 34% of reduced disbursals. Once lost, Aadhaar has been found to be almost impossible to retrieve; whereas for voter IDs there are simpler and more well defined ways to replace a misplaced voter ID card. 

Third, such a proposal is more likely to increase voter fraud. Linking Aadhaar would dilute the sanctity of the Voter ID database. As we pointed out in 2019, self-reported errors in Aadhaar data are reportedly one-and-one-half times higher than errors in the electoral database. The assumption behind the proposal to link the two databases is that the authenticity of people’s records in the Aadhaar database will be used to determine the authenticity of a record in the Voter ID/ EPIC database. However, given widespread data quality issues in the Aadhaar database, this  exercise would diminish the sanctity of records in the Voter ID database. Data quality issues in the Aadhaar database – a result of inadequate enrolment practices and lack of effective correction mechanisms – have been extensively documented - including fake entries and incorrect details. The UIDAI has itself admitted this, before various courts, and multiple Courts have refused to accept Aadhaar as proof of birth, or of identification. More recent research has also shown that Aadhaar-PAN linking has introduced fraudulent entries into the system.

Fourth, Biometric authentication for voting must not become a requirement. There are numerous reports of starvation deaths across states due to a lack of Aadhaar linkage, biometric failures, absence of adequate infrastructure and lack of adequate grievance redressal mechanisms in UIDAI’s implementation which has been painstakingly exposed by the Right to Food campaign. Fingerprints don't work for many people, especially those who work with their hands and older persons, and facial authentication is inaccurate and error-prone. The UIDAI has sought to circumvent the inaccuracy and issues in biometric authentication through an ill-conceived "nominee system", and OTPs in the case of welfare programs. How will this work in the case of voting? Will we have to send family members to vote instead, if our fingerprints don’t work? It’s also pertinent to mention that election booths are sometimes set up in remote locations, where voting has to be processed manually. Even EVMs are not connected to an internet connection, to prevent any kind of tampering. In such locations, how will biometric verification work in absence of the internet? 

Fifth, linking these two databases would be an attack on the right to privacy, and scope for misuse. We have serious concerns that such a proposal would violate our constitutional and fundamental right to privacy, and the secrecy of the vote. India currently has no data protection law, and the current personal data protection bill has wide exceptions for the government. Any attempts to link Aadhaar to the voter IDs, would lead to demographic information which has been linked to Aadhaar, being linked to the voter database. This creates the possibilities for disenfranchisement based on identity, of increased surveillance, and targeted advertisements and commercial exploitation of private sensitive data. In 2019, the Cambridge Analytica scandal demonstrated the disastrous impact that deep and invasive voter profiling had on individuals and on democracies. We have seen this in India: most recently, the Madras HC has asked the Election Commission to look into allegations against the Bharatiya Janata Party that it was illegally using Aadhaar data of voters in Puducherry for making political gains in the Assembly elections. In 2019, an investigation revealed that data could have been taken from the UID database in order to delete voter names in Andhra Pradesh - names were taken from the voter lists. This could be particularly harmful against minorities - a 2018 report found that 20% of Muslim adults were missing from electoral lists in Karnataka. We have learnt from other countries how a single form of identification for voting, leads to greater disenfranchisement. In some cases, onerous identity requirements are used to block disenfranchised persons from voting.

Finally, we cannot trust the ECI’s promise of “voluntariness”. The ECI’s claim that this would be based on "voluntariness". This is a grossly inadequate safeguard. We have seen how throughout the Aadhaar project “voluntary” on paper translates to a coercive mechanism in practice; and how this changes with time and in practice.

Any proposal to link the UID with Voter IDs must be rejected.

I. Organisations 

1. Adivasi Women's Network

2. Association for Democratic Reforms  

3. Article 21 Trust 

4. The Bachchao Project

5. BlockSurvey, Inc. 

6. Center for Women and Children Solidarity Network 

7. Forum Against Oppression of Women 

8. Forum for Electoral Integrity 

9. Free Software Movement of India 

10. Honavar Foundation 

11. Internet Freedom Foundation 

12. J&K RTI Movement 

13. Maadhyam 

14. Mazdoor Kisan Shakti Sangathan (MKSS) 

15. NAPM, Jharkhand 

16. National Platform for the Rights of the Disalbed 17. Oddjoint Art 

17. OpenSpace 

18. People's Union for Civil Liberties 

19. People's Union for Civil Liberties, Karnataka 

20. People's Union for Civil Liberties, Maharashtra 

21. People's Union for Civil Liberties, Rajasthan

22. People’s Union for Democratic Rights (signed by Radhika Chitkara, Vikas Kumar, Secretaries)

23. Rethink Aadhaar 

24. Socialist Party (India) Telangana 

Individuals 

1. Aarti

2. Aavishkar Rangari

3. Abani K Bhuyan, PSU 

4. Abbasbhai

5. Abdul

6. Abha Rao

7. Abhayraj Naik, Azim Premji University

8. Abhi

9. Abhijit Nagendranath

10. Abhijith S

11. Abhilash Paul

12. Abhimanyu Chandra

13. Abhishek Gupta

14. Abhishek Sagar

15. Abhradip Acharya

16. Adaikala Regan

17. Aditi Chowdhury

18. Aditi Mehta, Constitutional Conduct Group

19. Aditi P. Kaur

20. Aditya Banerjee, Conservation Initiatives

21. Aditya Panwar

22. Aditya Vikram

23. Adv. Manoj, Manoj Harit & Co 

24. Adv. Milind Babar

25. Advait Dharap

26. Afreen Khan

27. Afried Raman

28. Agnibesh Mukherjee

29. Ahesanali

30. Ajesh Narayanan

31. Alagammai

32. Alstrin Cyrus, Kofluence

33. Alwyn D'Souza

34. Ameya

35. Ameya Kelkar

36. Amina Yasmeen

37. Amit kumar

38. Amit Prakash Ambasta

39. Amitadyuti Kumar, APDR 

40. Amitava Choudhury, Information and Action for Peoples' Right

41. Amogh Barakol

42. Amrita Johri, SNS 

43. Amrita Shodhan

44. Anand Arni

45. Ananya Jain

46. Aneesh Correa

47. Angela

48. Anil Sadgopal, All India Forum for Right to Education

49. Anilkumar

50. Anirudh

51. Anita Das, Infosys

52. Anjali Bhardwaj, SNS

53. Ankita Aggarwal

54. Annapurna Menon, University of Westminster

55. Annie T

56. Anubhav

57. Anupama Datta, HelpAge India

58. Anushka

59. Anwesha Bhattacharya, Harvard Kennedy School

60. Apurva Bamezai

61. Archana Dwivedi

62. Archismita Choudhury, Internet Freedom Foundation

63. Ardhendu Sen

64. Arnav Mathur

65. Aroon Mohan

66. Aroon Raman

67. Arun Agnihotri

68. Arun I

69. Aruna Burte

70. Aruna Rodrigues

71. Arundhati Dhuru, NAPM

72. Arup Kumar Sen 

73. Arvind

74. Ashish Asgekar

75. Ashish M

76. Ashok Choudhary, AIUFWP

77. Ashok Nehru

78. Ashok Sharma, Constitutional Conduct Group

79. Ashwin Santhosh

80. Ashwini

81. Ayush

82. Ayushi

83. Baba Fakruddin

84. Balaji

85. Bandish Soparkar

86. Barath N

87. Beena Choksi

88. Bernard D'Mello

89. Bharat Varma

90. Bharati Jagannathan

91. Bhaskar

92. Bidisha M

93. Bishakha

94. Bishakha Bhanja

95. Boma

96. Brindaalakshmi K

97. Brinelle D'souza

98. Britts

99. C B

100. C. Balakrishnan, Retired from the Govt of India

101. Chaitali Dixit

102. Chandrasekar R

103. Chantal

104. Chayanika Shah, Forum Against Oppression of Women

105. Chetan

106. Chhavi Sachdev

107. Daniel Umi

108. Danish Mukadam

109. David Bodapati, The Cedars

110. Deb Mukharji

111. Deepak Kaushik

112. Deepak Sanan, Constitutional Conduct Group 

113. Deepthi

114. Denice Mathew Thomas

115. Deonis Baghwar

116. Derick

117. Divij Joshi

118. Divya

119. Divyangi

120. Diwan Singh

121. Dr V Rukmini Rao

122. Dr.  Yogitha S, GFGC,  Saragur

123. Dr. Mira Shiva

124. Dr. Shakeel

125. Dr. Suvajeet Duttagupta

126. Dr. Tony PM, Social Research and Training Centre Ranchi

127. Dr.Deepak Viswanath

128. Dr.Sudhir Vombatkere

129. Dunu Roy, Hazards Centre

130. Eesha

131. Elsa Muttathu

132. Fareeha Jabeen

133. Firoz Ahmad

134. Francis Colaso

135. Francis Parmar

136. Gabriele Dietrich, NAPM 

137. Garima

138. Gaurav

139. Gautam Chaudhury

140. Gautam Mukhopadhaya

141. Gautam Sonti

142. Gayatri Singh, Sr Advocate, Bombay High Court

143. Geo Peter Tharappel

144. Gopal Krishna Pillai, Rerd. Government Officer 

145. Gopalan Balagopal

146. Goutham

147. Gudu Sharma

148. Hamid Ansari

149. Hannan Mollah, All India Kisan Sabha

150. Hardik

151. Harikumar TP

152. Haritha P.E

153. Hemal

154. Himan

155. Himmat Singh Ratnoo

156. Hiren Gandhi, Darshan 

157. I Pillai

158. Ibrahim

159. Imrana Qadeer

160. Indranee Dutta

161. Irfan Engineer

162. Ishwari

163. Jagdeep Chhokar

164. Jahnavi Visvanathan

165. Jairus Banaji

166. James Herenj, Convenor, Jharkhand NREGA Watch

167. Jaskaran Singh

168. Jayan

169. Jayati Ghosh, University of Massachusetts Amherst, USA

170. Jibraan Mansoor

171. Jitesh Gautam

172. Jittu Varghese

173. John Varghese

174. Jomy Joseph

175. Joseph

176. Jyoti Punwani

177. K Paul

178. K S Gopal

179. K. Sudhir, Peoples' Architectural Commonwealth 

180. Kabir

181. Kalyani Menon Sen, Independent researcher

182. Kamayani Bali Mahabal

183. Kannalmozhi Kabilan, The New Indian Express

184. Karan

185. Karan Garg

186. Kartar K Sainani 

187. Karthik Govil

188. Karthik Narayana V, Sahyadri College of Engineering and Management

189. Kaushik Tadvi

190. Kaushiki Rao

191. Kaustubh Mangam

192. Kavita Srivastava, People's Union for Civil Liberties

193. Keerti bhandary

194. Kiara

195. Kingshuk Dasgupta

196. Kingshuk Roy

197. Kinshuk Goyal

198. Koninika Ray, National Federation of Indian Women

199. Krishnadarsan

200. Kumkum Roy

201. Laavanya, LibTech India

202. Lakshmi Venkatesan

203. Lapanoha

204. Lavneet

205. Leon Morenas

206. Lizmary BC

207. M B Nataraj

208. Madhava Prasad

209. Madhu Bhaduri

210. Madhura Chakraborty, Activist

211. Madhura Padhye

212. Mahinder Pal singh

213. Mahua Kamat

214. Malaika Mathew Chawla

215. Malay Tewari, CPI (ML) Liberation 

216. Malvika, Matterhorn Projects LLP

217. Manan

218. Manpreet

219. Mansi Mehta

220. Manu

221. Maqbool Saleem

222. Maria Aurora Couto, Writer

223. Mayuresh Vaidya

224. Meena Gupta

225. Meera Dewan

226. Meera. R

227. Megha

228. Megha Singh

229. Melroy C F Fernandes

230. Mit

231. Mohini Mullick

232. Mona Ambegaonkar

233. Mrinalini Nayak

234. Mubeen

235. Mukesh

236. Mukesh Malik

237. Mukta Srivastava 

238. Murugu

239. Nafisa Barot, Utthan 

240. Nakul Kishore Dumblekar

241. Nandini Nayak, Ambedkar University Delhi

242. Narayan Rao

243. Nasruddin Shaikh

244. Natashia Gonsalves, SUCDEN

245. Navamita Chandra

246. Navdha Malhotra

247. Naveen Purushothaman

248. Nayonika Bose

249. Nazar Mohammad Shavadi

250. NB Murthy

251. Neela D’सूजा

252. Neelakantan

253. Neha

254. Neha Chopra

255. Neha Das

256. Neil Fernandes 

257. Nidhi

258. Nihar

259. Nikhil

260. Nilanjan Dutta

261. Nimmi

262. Niranjani Iyer

263. Nirvan, WIPRO

264. Nisha Biswas

265. Nishant Kumar

266. Nishi Sharma

267. Nitin

268. Nivedh

269. Omkar

270. P Chaudhuri

271. P K Mahesh

272. P. R. Dasgupta, IAS Pensioner

273. Padma Srinivasan

274. Padma Velaskar

275. Pallavi Sobti Rajpal

276. Parampath Joy Oommen

277. Paranjoy Guha Thakurta, Independent journalist, author, publisher, documentary film-maker and teacher

278. Paras Katiyar

279. Parmu Singh

280. Parul Soni

281. Pascal Alan Nazareth

282. Pat

283. Pervin Jehangir

284. Phani

285. Philip Pinto

286. Piyush

287. Pooja Monani

288. Poorna

289. Praavita

290. Prabhat Patnaik, Jawaharlal Nehru University

291. Pracheta

292. Prajit Basu

293. Pranami Rajb

294. Prasad Chacko

295. Praveen, Times

296. Preeti Sampat

297. Prema

298. Primus Kerketta

299. Pritha Taraphder

300. Priti

301. Pritom Ghosh

302. Priyam

303. Priyanka Singh

304. Priyesh Pavithran

305. Procheta Mallik

306. Prof. K Satchidanandan, Indian Writers Forum

307. Prof.Mohan Rao

308. Purwa Bharadwaj

309. Pushkar Raj

310. Pushpendra, Tata Institute of Social Sciences

311. R K Grandhi

312. R Ravishankar

313. Rabin Chakraborty

314. Radha Holla

315. Raghavendra Rao

316. Raghunandan Hegde

317. Ragvendra Gadage

318. Rahul Nair, Delhi University

319. Rahul Saunik, Quikr India Private Limited

320. Rajdeep Singh Puri

321. Rajendran Narayanan, Azim Premji University, Bangalore

322. Rajesh Krishnan

323. Rajesh Mehar

324. Raju Sharma, Retired Civil Servant

325. Rakesh Shekhawat

326. Rakhi Sehgal

327. Ram

328. Ramani Atkuri, Public Health Professional

329. Ramani Venkatesan, Retired Civil Servant

330. Ramesh Tikamdas Bajaj

331. Ramyak Rohan Mohanty

332. Ranabir Chakravarti

333. Ranjeet Verma

334. Raufa Shaikh, Students for Liberty

335. Ravi Theja

336. Revathi

337. Ricky Saldanha

338. Rishav Kundu, IIIT Hyderabad

339. Rita Puthenkalam

340. Riyaz

341. RK Singh, Save Democracy

342. Rohan Mathew

343. Rohini Hensman

344. Rohini Lakshané

345. Rohith

346. Roja Mathew

347. Romar Correa, University of Mumbai

348. Roop Kaur Brar

349. Rosamma Thomas

350. Roshan

351. Raju

352. Rudi Warjri, Constitutional Conduct Group

353. Rupa

354. Rupsa Mallik

355. S Bharatwaj

356. S.Durga Bhavani

357. Sabih Ahmad

358. Sadhna Arya, University of Delhi

359. Sagar

360. Sahil Gupta

361. Sakina Dhorajiwala, LibTech India

362. Samali Banerjee

363. Sameet Panda, Odisha Khadya Adhikar Abhijan

364. Samrudha Surana

365. Samyak Jain, Advocate

366. Sandeep Kumar Pattnaik

367. Sandeep Manudhane

368. Sandeep Yadav

369. Sandhya Gokhale, Forum Against Oppression of Women

370. Sandip

371. Saniya Khan Golandaz

372. Sanjay Palshiakar, University of Hyderabad

373. Sanjay Upadhyay, SWORD

374. Sanket

375. Sanketh D S

376. Sarada Mahesh

377. Sarath, Motherleaf

378. Sarika sinha

379. Sarosh

380. Satyabhama, IAS Retired CMD NSC Ministry of Agriculture

381. Saudha Kasim

382. Saumya

383. Saumya Kaul

384. Sautabh

385. Sayantan Chaudhuri

386. Shadab Ahmad

387. Shahvir Aga

388. Shaleen Jain

389. Shankar Gopalakrishnan, Chetna Andolan, Uttarakhand

390. Shantha Sinha

391. Sharachchandra Lele

392. Sharad Chandra Behar

393. Sharada Ganesh

394. Shardul Gopujkar, Parichay Legal Clinic

395. Shashi

396. Sheetal Fernandes

397. Shekar

398. Shevon  Abraham Samuel

399. Shewli Kumar, Tata Institute of Social Sciences

400. Shilpaa Anand, BITS-Pilani Hyderabad Campus

401. Shirish B Patel, Shirish Patel & Associates

402. Shiv

403. Shivangi, Amity Law School, Delhi

404. Shivani Yadav

405. Shobhit Sinha

406. Shounak Dewal

407. Shubham

408. Siddharth K J

409. Sikandar Warsi

410. Simrandeep

411. Siraj Dutta, Right to Food Campaign Jharkhand

412. Snehan Kekre, Streamlit, Inc

413. Solomon

414. Sonia Soni, SK Finance Ltd. 

415. Sowjanya Chandrasekhar

416. Sowmya Dechamma, UoH 

417. Soumya Chakraborty

418. SP Ambrose, Constitutional Conduct Group 

419. Spandana L P

420. Sravya D

421. Sreechand

422. Sreedev Krishnkumar

423. Sreeharsha Thanneeru, Rythu Swarajya Vedika

424. Srishti

425. Srujana Bej

426. Stuti Guha

427. Subhodip Mukherjee

428. Sudeshna Sengupta

429. Sudha N

430. Sudipto GhoshSuhail Ahmad

431. Suhas Kolhekar

432. Suhasini Mulay

433. Sujata Patel, Kerstin Hesselgren Visiting Professor, Umea University

434. Sujay Monga

435. Sujay Naik, Zephyr

436. Sukla SenSumender

437. Sunaina

438. Sundar Burra, Member, Constitutional Conduct Group

439. Sunil Thamizh Kumar

440. Suprateek Bose

441. Suranjan Sinha, Independent researcher

442. Susan Dhavle

443. Sushant

444. Swati Bishnoi 

445. Swati Narayan, Right to Food Campaign

446. Syed Ali Mujtaba

447. Syeda Hameed, Muslim Womens Forum

448. T Ramakrishnan

449. Taj Aingh

450. Tamanna Khan

451. Tanima Xavier

452. Tarangini, Azim Premji University

453. Teesta Setalvad

454. Tony, ATC

455. Tousif Tamboli

456. Tushar

457. Uma Shankari

458. Upendra R

459. Usha Raman, University of Hyderabad

460. V.P.Raja, Retd. IAS officer

461. Vandana Prabha

462. Varada Balachandran

463. Varsha Harisubramaniam

464. Varun

465. Vasudha Verma

466. Vasundhar, Exceleron

467. Venkat

468. Veronica Dungdung, Samajik Seva Sadan

469. Vicky Rathore

470. Vidya Subramanian

471. Vidyut Gore

472. Vignesh Balaji Velu

473. Vijay Bharatiya

474. Vijayendra Mohanty

475. Vinayak Varma

476. Vindhya

477. Vinish Gupta, Centre for Holistic Learning

478. Vir Bharat talwar

479. Vishal Talreja

480. Visvanathan V

481. Vivek

482. Vivek Dandekar

483. Vivek Jindal

484. Vivek Mathur

485. Yash Marwah, Let India Breathe

486. Yashasvi Karnena

487. Zakir Husain Memaya

488. Zishan

489. Zuber