The government is looking at the national ID card project to check the duplication of identification that is leading to serious frauds while implementing various government programmes.
In his first interaction with media after taking over as the Head of the Unique Identification Authority of India (UIDAI), Nandan M Nilekani, said, the UID scheme would create a ‘national verification process’ so that people could clarify, who s/he claims to be.
“The key issue for us is to ensure that there are no duplicates in ID system, like it is happening in other schemes. The problem with identity is that many national and state projects have duplicates that had led to frauds while implementing various government programmes,” Nilekani, who was earlier the co-chairman of India’s second-largest IT services firm Infosys Technologies, said.
He said the UID would enable identity using biometric capability like finger prints that would ensure that people have a unique number. This would also help in creating a national verification process.
“It is a database of Indian citizens, like Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee had said. It would create a national enrollment capability,” he added.
The government has earmarked an initial budgetary allocation of Rs 120 crore for the UID project, in the fiscal 2009-10. “First, I have to go and find an office,” he said, and went on to add, “Let me go and take stock of the situation”.
Nilekani said UIDAI was basically an infrastructure based on the national authentication and enrollment capability to help the central and the state governments to establish identity that can check frauds in implementing value-added applications and programmes.
Earlier, Karnataka chief Minister B S Yeddyurappa felicitated him on his appointment as the UIDAI chairperson.
you are reaching a point when id becomes more important then the person himself,this is such a foolish way to look at things,just copying the west would not help.
do not fool your self that you can provide a id for 115 crore people and can manage it ,if a person does not have a id you want to reject his existence.
i send my person to the depositary they refuse to hand over papers because it is said he should have a id.how would you get id for some one who is come from a village whose parents refuse to hand over the xerox of ration card for him.
we are not a simple a few crore of popullation like england,or a few states in america.we have over 80 % people who do not know how to use a computer.stop fooling your self and others.
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