UIDAI aims to register 600 million users by 2014

Unique Identification Authority of India (UIDAI) is looking at registering 600 million users by 2014. UIDAI aims to check fraud or impersonation by collecting multiple identification details of a person on a biometric system.

R S Sharma, director general and mission director of UIDAI, said, “We are talking to Life Insurance Corporation (LIC), Reserve Bank of India (RBI), Petroleum Ministry, and others, who can work as registrars for us. It can help LIC policy holders to claim disbursements, among other benifits.”

UIDAI is going to float tenders next week to finalise software companies for the software application development. “Our in-house technology team is looking into the architecture of the process. We should be ready by the end of this year or early next year,” said Sharma.

UIDAI expects to ensure even those who were "ghosts" with no documents to prove they existed would bag the benefits that the state wanted to provide them. “Currently, a lot of people have more than one Pan cards. Also, we do not have one identity card which can be used everywhere and valid. So, this card will be unique and accepted nationally. The UIDAI will become the single source of identity verification,” Sharma added.