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This is already playing out in West Bengal. A recent voter roll revision struck off nearly 91 lakh names. Over 27 lakh people were declared ineligible under a brand new category called logical discrepancy.
The law gets stricter with every generation. Born before July 1987, your birthplace alone makes you a citizen. Born after December 3, 2004, both your parents now have to prove they are citizens too.
She is not alone. Decode found 13.21 crore Indian births between 2000 and 2024 were never registered. That is over 20% of the total. In Bihar, 96.3% of births went unregistered in the year 2000 alone.
For women like Pooja, working from home makes the job possible. But it also raises questions about what protections apply.
Workers aren't necessarily paid for rejected footage. The work can fall somewhere between gig work, digital labour and home-based work.
Her footage doesn't end in Rajasthan.
It can pass through labour vendors and data companies that collect, clean and label the recordings before reaching robotics companies abroad.
The robots being trained can cost between $20,000 and $100,000.
The instructions are precise: stand while recording, keep both hands visible and stay in frame.
If the footage is rejected, often because her hands aren't visible, she doesn't get paid.
Pooja earns Rs 250 for every hour of usable footage.
Influenced by social media, young women are getting fillers and botox to "look like Nargis Fakhri". Everyone knows it's a trap, but who is responsible?
Story out soon on @DecodeInternet
