UID's new champs

Unique Identification Authority of India (UIDAI) Chairman Nandan Nilekani, who has played a key role in getting Aadhaar off the ground, is no longer at the centre of things now that the Aadhaar-based cash transfer exercise has acquired a political colour. As an official close to developments commented, the “Big Boys” have taken over and UIDAI is playing a supporting role, an oblique reference to Finance Minister P Chidambaram and Rural Development Minister Jairam Ramesh’s grandstanding on the cash transfer scheme.