Parliament’s standing committee on finance has returned the National Identification Authority of India Bill to the government, asking for major changes to be made in the draft.
The panel has said the Bill talks about giving Unique Identification (UID) numbers to all residents, rather than only to citizens. This could create security problems, as there are millions of illegal migrants.
The panel also wanted the issue of UID numbers and the mode of identification to mesh with the concerns of the home ministry.
They have also raised issues of privacy, besides querying if there wasn’t duplication of work with that done by the office of the census commissioner.
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